Assertion Supported
Brit Morin: Deel CEO allegedly recruited Rippling employee as paid spy
“Keith O'Brien, who was the man allegedly spying for deal while working at Rip Lane had to
Put out an affidavit today, and he basically, like, came forward and just was like, all right, here's the truth.
Alex, how do you pronounce his name?
Boise, Boise, the CE…”
Assertion Supported
Morin: Anthropic is raising at an $800B valuation
“And Anthropic this week, I heard, is also now raising at an eight hundred billion.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: Tesla Robotaxis Will Deploy Instantly Once Legalized
“It's gonna be so pervasive that they're self-driving cars. Actually self-driving on all the roads instantly as soon as it's legal to do so.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morin: Frontier AI labs run opposition research teams planting hit stories
“There's truly oppositional research teams inside each company that I've now heard about for probably five to 10 times, like for different stories and companies that have been planted by the other. And it's like the nastiest PR setting I've seen in all of tech.…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Brit Morin: Half of Bay Area engineers face unemployment within three years
“Well, you and I said half of the software engineers that are employed right now It in the Bay area will not be employed three years from now.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: 85% of Grok Images Are Nude or Sex-Related
“Grok, no, Grok, the AI platform, not the one that offline was part of, who just raised more money, by the way. 85% of the images that it's producing right now are nude or sex related.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin predicts OpenAI will ultimately lose the AI race
“OpenAI ultimately loses this race.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Britt Morin: Superintelligence is coming within five to seven years
“I mean, superintelligence is coming in the next five to seven years.”
Assertion Partly supported
Brit Morin: Deel espionage was coordinated via Telegram with 'The Watchman'
“Also, they had a telegram channel where they were discussing the payments, and.
Wait, who was?
Okay, it's Keith, it's the spy.
How much did they pay for the telegram, Brett?
I know, telegram, not signal.
It's the spy, it's the CEO, and then there's a third per…”
Assertion Supported
Brit Morin: Anthropic CEO Claims AI Will Write Nearly All Code in 12 Months
“The CEO of Anthropix said, he said, In the next three to six months, AI is probably gonna be able to write 90% of all code. And in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI.”
Opinion
Britt Morin: Microsoft, Sequoia, and Thrive failed OpenAI board diligence
“Frankly, I'm surprised that Microsoft and Sequoia and Thrive, like didn't do more board diligence when they were investing all this money to figure out like this board was like not adequate for the type of company that this has become.”
Disclosure
Brit Morin: Target knocked off Brit & Co products with private labels
“Brit and co had a lot, had many lines with target and what happened target hired a new chief merchandising officer targets, bottom line started hurting. So they decided to go private label for like half of the products they formerly were buying and just kind o…”
Assertion Supported
Meta's settlement drops teen daily limit to one hour if competitors agree
“For that two hour time limit, it will be reduced to a one hour daily limit if TikTok, Snap, and YouTube also agree.”
Opinion
Brit Morin: Women should microdose testosterone
“I'm convinced women should be microdosing testosterone.”
Opinion
Morin: AI progress is now linear, not exponential
“I'm just saying it's evolutionary, not revolutionary at this point. It's linear, not exponential.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: Frontier AI lab revenues will shift significantly over the next 6-12 months
“And I think you'll start to see the revenues shifting quite a bit over the next six to 12 months.”
Assertion Contradicted
Federal Reserve data shows US AI adoption growth flattened recently
“Did you guys see that the fed introduced their latest data about AI adoption growth and it's actually been flat or linear, nearly flat for the last three months.”
Assertion Partly supported
Meta is tracking all employee computer activity and keystrokes
“Meta now tracking everything its employees do and all the keystrokes that they do on their computers.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morin: Uber and Meta rank engineers by token usage leaderboards
“Uber and Meta are actually doing on leaderboards right now in their engineering departments.”
Insight
Morin: VC fund math should prioritize fund allocation percentage over equity ownership
“At the end of the day, like what I've come to is like, it just has to be what percentage of the fund is going in rather than what percentage of equity you're getting out of these companies, right?”
Assertion Supported
Morin: Anthropic cut off OpenClaw access for Claude Pro and Max users
“And days later, Anthropic announced that they are shutting off access for Claude Pro and Max users who are Open Call users to use their product.”
Disclosure
Brit Morin: One-person AI startup Pulsia hit $2M ARR in two weeks
“We have this company, I think we mentioned last week called Pulsia. That's just like on a tear right now as a one person company. That's gotten from, like, zero to two million ARR in two weeks, and, like, the agent is just running the company.”
Assertion Contradicted
Brit Morin: Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive are raising from the Middle East, not universities
“Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive are raising from, like, the Middle East, and not necessarily, like, universities at this point.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: Solo-founder AI company Pulsia hit $700K ARR in one week
“This founder is a sole founder. He has no team. He just booted up all these agents to build this business. And if you go to polsia.com slash live, it's the agents running the business in real time, showing you everything they're doing. And this company has gon…”
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