Peter H. Diamandis

I mean, everybody else was just like, hold still, focus on the IPO, don't rock the boat, don't get people scared.

Yeah, we'll talk about the jobs report that came out yesterday that crashed the marketplace.

Salim, I'm going to read two quotes here that came from internal employee quotes at Anthropic.

One engineer says, it's been five months since I last wrote any code myself.

Another says, on days where everything works well, I can't help but think nothing I do matters.

Interesting.

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Dave, can I ask you a question here?

Yeah.

It feels like Anthropic has a situation where

They get benefits for calling for a slowdown.

They're seen as the safer, moral, ethical lab.

at a moment that they know there is no option for a slowdown, right?