Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
6/5/20261 hr 4 min
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all racing to the public markets. We discuss what their I.P.O.s mean for the industry, charitable giving and anyone invested in an index fund. Then, more than 1,000 mathematicians signed a declaration this week raising concerns about the use of A.I. in their field. Author Kevin Hartnett joins to explain what the fuss is all about. And finally, we run through the biggest headlines of the week — including the new executive order on A.I. — in a round of HatGPT.
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Additional Reading:
- Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
- As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
- An SF Startup Is Secretly Testing Robots in Airbnbs, and Trashing Them, Lawsuit Claims
- Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
- U.S. Is Said to Be Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting
- Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
- United Flight Forced to Turn Around Because of a Bluetooth Speaker Name
- ‘Survivor’ Boss Jeff Probst Says Kalshi and Polymarket Are ‘Incentivizing People to Lie, Cheat and Steal’; Kalshi Is Now Considering Measures to Prevent Spoilers
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Casey Newton· Host0:28
I have to say, technology is not my friend this week. Okay?
Kevin Roose· Host0:32
What's going on?
Casey Newton· Host0:33
Well, first of all, I now have a new piece of technology in my bedroom called a CPAP machine. [laughs] You heard of these things?
Kevin Roose· Host0:40
Yes.
Casey Newton· Host0:41
[laughs] So listen, y- if you're out there and you think you, you want a boyfriend, like you do, but here's what's gonna happen. He's gonna notice during the night that it appears that you briefly stop breathing, and that's gonna terrify him, and next thing you know, you're gonna be at the doctor. Now I sleep with a mask on, and when I breathe, I sound like Darth Vader. [laughs] So that's thing one that's happening to me. I accidentally bricked my laptop with a bottle of water in my bag.
Kevin Roose· Host1:04
Yeah.
Casey Newton· Host1:05
And then today I'm trying to get to the office for the podcast, and my debit card that is attached to my public transit card expired. No big deal. For two days I've been trying [laughs] to navigate the city bureaucracy to just replace the credit card that is attached to my transit card. It won't work, so I have to order a, an Uber to the office, and it says it's gonna be six minutes. It was more like a casual 12. And I get in,