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Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort / TechCrunch)

@arielmichaeli:  Claude’s mobile app went from $125k/day to $1.5M (after fees) in 3ish months 😱🤯 [image]

A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman’s legal fight with Musk to Hitler’s fight with Stalin (Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal)

@elonmusk:  😂  @firstadopter:  Reading this piece from @keachhagey makes me wonder if Sam and Dario would have been able to work together without Greg in the equation.  “Altman went over to Dario’s house to ask him to stay.  Dario said he would accept nothing less than reporting directly to the board.  He also said he couldn’t work with Brockman.”  @keachhagey:  When Sam took over, he promised Dario that Greg and Ilya would not be in charge. Then Dario got wind of a handshake deal that Sam had made with Greg and Ilya that they could fire him if they thought he was doing a bad job

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Bluesky’s CEO talks about Attie, a new agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol that uses Claude and lets users build custom feeds (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)

@arcalinea:  Waitlist only, more soon.  @attie_ai:  2/ The Atmosphere was built as an open network, so anybody could create the social experience they desired. But it’s always required engineering skills to customize your feed.  @durvidimel:  This feels a bit like Bluesky is looking for its MySpace moment – trying to make social media easy to manipulate and experience the way you want. Hopefully if people can format their feeds in a way that feels like home, they’ll actually like being on social instead of addicted

A study of 11 leading LLMs finds the models more agreeable than humans when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users’ behavior even when harmful or illegal (Stanford University)

Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances (John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times)

Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label (Brendan Bordelon / Politico)

Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump’s AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt / Axios)

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs)

Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (Financial Times)