Rose Judson

In a field as competitive as frontier AI, this feedback loop if allowed to persist could result in harm well beyond the immediate consequences of the government's actions. Training and serving frontier-level models like Claude requires extraordinary computational resources. Anthropic has already spent over $10 billion on model training and inference (serving the model to end users) and expects to spend many billions more in the coming years. Although the company has generated substantial revenue since entering the commercial market exceeding $5 billion to date—it has nonetheless had to raise more than $60 billion in outside capital to fund its operations. Anthropic has raised this capital by issuing investors equity stakes in the company.

Based on their lawsuit filed against the DoD, Anthropic appears to be admitting that reports about its revenue and costs are fake, saying its revenue to date “exceeds $5bn” and training/inference “over $10bn.” Previous reports said $4.5bn.

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quadrant graph with x axis as good vs bad future, y axis as order vs chaos The 4 options are democratic reformation, billionaire hyperslavery, global collapse, and deep green revolution. there is a dot on the border of hyperslavery and collapse with an vector into the global collapse box with the tag "strait of hormuz closure"

I'm just gonna start explaining news with this graph I thought of

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

It's important to remember that the stock market is not reflective of the value of the comnpanies listed, it is a mood ring for rich people.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

I say this every year, but:

The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.

With a new addition for 2026:

They deeply hate AI.

1970s ad: GUESS WHO'S BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The Shah of Iran is sitting on top of one of the largest reservoirs of oil in the world. Yet he's building two nuclear plants and planning two more to provide electricity for his country. He knows the oil is running out - and time with it. But he wouldn't build the plants now if he doubted their safety. He'd wait. As many Americans want to do. The Shah knows that nuclear energy is not only economical, it has enjoyed a remarkable 30-year safety record. A record that was good enough for the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, too. They've approved their second nuclear plant by a vote of almost 4 to 1. Which shows you don't have to go as far as Iran for an endorsement of nuclear power. NUCLEAR ENERGY. TODAY'S ANSWER.

Fun ad from the 70s

Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.

Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have hear don multiple podcasts that legal AI is good/getting better.

Please let me present this invaluable website that tracks cases involving AI hallucinations (and sanctions for attorneys) so you can know how bullshit that is
www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

A website that sells steaks: we’re delighted that you have begun your meat journey

You have my credit card details, let’s keep things simple mister website

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last week

Support: 25% (-3 from 2 March)
Oppose: 59% (+10)

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Dear journalists: Shut up about the “special relationship”. There is UK reliance on the US but for the time being there is no special relationship in any meaningful sense and talking as if there still is sounds ridiculous

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

I can explain it right now tbh, they don't consider the rest of us human much less American. It's not national suicide, it is a family annihilation perpetuated by people who lied and grifted and stole they way into power and are using it to consolidate resources ahead of the climate catastrophe

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

If we could do only one thing to right this ship it has to be ending the culture of elite impunity in this country. Once you get past a certain wealth threshold you not only become invulnerable to criminal liability, but you lose the ability to lose in any way at all

By now there’s enough independent, third-party data analysis of AI’s impact (or apparent lack thereof) on the current job market that there’s no reason not to include some skepticism about the executive claim when you write it up.

They didn't want to air Sesame Street in Mississippi because it was integrated.

The pall of smoke over Glasgow today. The spire of Glasgow Central is barely visible through the haze.

Today is not the day to head into Glasgow city centre if you have respiratory issues. The air is acrid.

This is the view from my office. The wind is coming from an unusual, south-easterly direction, so the smoke appears to be affecting neighbourhoods as far away as Woodside.

The Great Belzoni (1778–1823) A biographical piece about Giovanni Battista Belzoni

turning up to the function wearing a button that says ASK ME ABOUT THE GREAT BELZONI

fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-...

if anything reading lots of books has resulted in a -2 to our CHA score by annihilating our capacity for small talk at parties

also i hate to tell u but reading doesn't actually make you a better person? like i think engaging with art can increase your faculty of empathy but reading the brothers karamazov doesn't actually make you, like, superior? ive read it and didn't get a +2 to my WIS stat

Attacks leave dead vs killed

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

ayatollah is supposed to be an academic position and you can tell this is true because after an extensive search they went with an internal candidate

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

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