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20 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
19 September
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
17 September
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Another great point from @jason. The large closed model corporations have publically admitted their products are defective & can be used to hack/cause cyber crimes. They should 1) fix these issues, & 2) disclose these large (seemingly likely) liabilities in their S-1. Quoting @Jason The frontier model companies are responsible for how their products perform in the real world, and their customers are responsible for how they use them. If a user of Claude runs a cyberattack — especially one at scale — both the customer and the platform will be sued. This should be enough of an i… Related
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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
16 September
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Woke up this morning with what is clearly an eye infection. Not good. Got the kids on the way to school. 7:30 I book an online appointment with a doctor. I send two photos. 7:35 I have phone chat with the doctor. 7:38 I have an electronic prescription for antibiotic drops. 7:59 I am standing in front of the pharmacy which opens at 8:00 8:15 back home, dripping my eye 9:00 the infection has visibly pretty much cleared out I am actually impressed by how flawlessly this all worked. I was fully prepared it'd eat up an entire day. Related
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
15 September
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
A few highlights from week 1! Quoting @alpha_founders We are in week 2 of Founders School. But so much happened in week 1! Recap time 🔄 Related
11 September
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking.
I'm a geek at heart, sometimes i just wanna get into the weeds and talk cyber and ai Quoting @shaneparrish I did another podcast with @tobi. We ended up kinda just geeking out on AI for hours. The members' cut is out: https://t.co/iMzgh5t4aW ... I am worried this episode might be a little too nerdy for everyone, but the feedback from early listeners seems to be: 'This is the best podcast of the year; I… Related
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10 September
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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I put the probability of complete extinction as being so low it isn't worth discussing, but the probabilities of AI caused disasters - e.g. cyber attacks on critical infrastructure or bio-risks - as being worth debating.
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9 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky In my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. English, from French Dans mon dernier éditorial pour TIME, j'explique pourquoi l'incident de cybersécurité OpenAI Hugging Face représente un tournant pour la sécurité de l'IA.
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8 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
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7 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
6 September
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.
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4 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
It happened again... this time OpenAI's rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against simonwillison.net
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3 September
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Loved talking with @daraladje, one of the most well-prepared interviewers able to go really deep. Especially loved chatting about the true nature of individual companies, and what it means to build the company only *you* could really build. Continue the conversation with my Delphi! delphi.ai
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2 September
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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1 September
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity It does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D printing talk with Elle in Oslo, the "normal" NDC infosec talk, the cyber-broken talk with Scott in Copenhagen and then those ra…
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I do think I want to push back on the cyber on the brain hypothesis that you raised a couple of times. We didn't find like particular evidence for the cyber nature of the task making all the hacking and crimes that they did more likely versus the impossible nature of the task.
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even in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding ourselves to the result of evaluations is the right reaction to this problem.
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31 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Breaches & Data Integrity: Synthetic Data in Breaches; Email Address != Person; Ridiculous Security for “Cyber Broken” Copenhagen youtube.com
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30 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t. this doesn’t mean we downplay the importance of this moment for cyber - but using human parallels for what I believe is code is dangerous territory. B) IMO it gets the impact of open source models wrong and is unreasonably dismissive for reasons that are not clear. As @ClementDelangue highlights… open source Related
29 August
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
Great piece that highlights the open oppty for someone to reinvent social! Quoting @bizbookpr Why is social networking still an unsolved problem? Fascinating Fast Company feature by @harrymccracken on the USA Today bestselling book Life at the Speed of Play by Zynga founder @markpinc from @HarperBusiness Related
27 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
I agree with this take by @billgates.bsky.social, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies. English, from French Je suis d'accord avec ce point de vue de @billgates.bsky.social, qui souligne également plusieurs des risques croissants des systèmes d'IA, notamment cyber, bio et perte de contrôle. Nous devons être bien mieux préparés à faire face aux risques des modèles de pointe développés par les principales entreprises d'IA.
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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.
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25 August
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
21 August
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
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18 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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the challenge with a lot of these cyber capable models is the same model that is able to sort of do something nefarious is the same model that can be very valuable in hardening an existing system.
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16 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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14 August
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
I thoroughly enjoyed going deep with @nxthompson on AI and the future of writing and creativity for The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. A few highlights: • How Nick and I have used @Gemini_Notebook to write our books • Why AI can lead to more serendipitous discovery in the research process (at least using Notebook’s citation-based approach) • The brilliance of the “explain” button in Notebook’s quiz feature • AI as the anti-social-media, with its gravitational pull towards mainstream consensus (citing @danwilliamsphil) • Why our attachment to the human voice of the writer is not going a… Quoting @nxthompson Few people have put more time into figuring out how creativity works than @stevenbjohnson. How do we link ideas in our mind, and how can we use tools to make that linking easier? He's not only written some of my favorite books of the past few decades; he's also written some of my favorite essays ab… Google Related
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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then there will be a service that that prepares and delivers that food at cheaper than going to the grocery store. And if that happens, this occurs and food will be completely revolutionized.
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7 August
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
3 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
2 August
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
22 July
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
17 July
Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
10 July
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Compilers and AI 'cyber' defense I haven’t had time to blog in a while, I have a lot to say, but have been doing a lot of things and so haven’t gotten words down in a while. One of those things in the past few weeks has been picking back up my Rue proj…
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13 May
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Mythos evals from XBOW and UK AISI: • UK AISI: Mythos completed a 32-step network attack (est. at ~20 hrs for experts) in 6/10 tries. First model to solve their e2e cyber ranges! • XBOW: "token-for-token, unprecedented precision" Read more: https://t.co/hD6G6DvALg, xbow.com
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30 April
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
excited to share this and help everyone be more cyber secure Quoting @claudeai Claude Security is now in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Claude scans your codebase for vulnerabilities, validates each finding to cut false positives, and suggests patches you can review and approve. Related
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights: The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons: 1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing. 2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to… Quoting @stephzhan @karpathy and I are back! At @sequoia AI Ascent 2026. And a lot has changed. Last year, he coined “vibe coding”. This year, he’s never felt more behind as a programmer. The big shift: vibe coding raised the floor. Agentic engineering raises the ceiling. We talk about what it means to build seriousl… LLMs Related
24 April
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
The WordPress AI plugin 0.8.0 is now available! Highlights in this release: • New Refine from Notes experiment to automatically apply editorial feedback • New AI dashboard widgets • Integration with Gutenberg Guidelines • Image Generation promoted to a stable Feature make.wordpress.org
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15 April
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
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9 April
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
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12 March
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Just published my Laracon EU 2026 recap. Lots of great talks this year — highlights for me were Dan Harrin on abstractions, Peter Suhm on unblocking users with AI, and Shane Rosenthal showing NativePHP rendering actual native iOS and Android elements. Also a good reminder to finally look more seriously at PostgreSQL. https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/03/12/laracon-eu-2026-recap/ #LaraconEU Related
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21 February
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
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18 February
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24 January
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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And then the other thing and the biggest risk to me is cyber. I mean, I I think this cyber stuff is, you know, we we're very good at it.
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9 June 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
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3 February 2025
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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these open models are probably going to keep coming for the time being, whether or not we want to stop them, and stopping them might make it even worse and harder to prepare.
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10 January 2025
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