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Hugging Face passed $100M of revenue in April, its co-founder says
14 insights: What people actually pay Hugging Face for, how far behind the frontier its open models run, and why a robot duck under $400 sold 16,000…
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Jason Calacanis: the labs already ship the safeguards the doomers say don't exist
10 arguments: why he reads the extinction warnings as a planned rollout, the clause he would put in every AI-lab contract, and where he thinks the next…
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Becki DeGraw: YouTube's third co-founder lost $250M+ to one vesting clause
7 lessons: Why leaving early cost Jawed Karim four-fifths of his Google payday, and how to structure advisor equity so it isn't given away like candy
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John Yu: open-weight models find the same exploits at 80% less cost
9 takeaways: The $10K a day a security subnet pays its best agents, the 26 pull requests it sent an open-source agent, and why he thinks the frontier…
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Anders Forslund: the largest electric airplane ever flown did it on $5 of electricity
10 takeaways: The 400 Wh/kg threshold Elon Musk set 12 years ago, why the 30-seater died in the 1990s, and the $1B of equity between a demonstrator and…
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Jason Calacanis: OpenAI's agent civilizations story is a public-relations operation
9 takeaways: Why a robot duck beats a 4th home as a use of capital, what the wrong prompt did to OpenAI's agents, and the day data-center politics flip…
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Jason Calacanis: Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal is the story of the year, unmetered racks are the threat to OpenAI and Anthropic…
Plus the 100-company warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are months away, a cargo rocket built by seven people, and why an AI-written op-ed under…
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