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Back to Episodes🤖 China Reclaims the Supercomputer Crown, AI Enters Your Slack, and Intelligence Agencies Sound a Dire Warning
Episode 428
Published 1Â month, 2Â weeks ago
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China just dethroned the United States at the top of the global supercomputer rankings for the first time in nearly a decade, and the timing couldn't be more geopolitically charged. Meanwhile, Anthropic has embedded its Claude AI directly into Slack, designed to quietly absorb your company's institutional knowledge over time — raising serious questions about enterprise data privacy. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint public warning that AI capable of launching devastating cyberattacks on critical infrastructure could arrive within months, not years. AI stocks triggered a significant market sell-off this week, with investors beginning to question whether the staggering infrastructure costs can ever justify the returns. A haunting report from garment factories in India reveals workers strapping cameras to their foreheads — unknowingly filming their own replacement. Author Cory Doctorow's provocative new concept, the 'reverse centaur,' reframes AI not as a liberator but as a tool of power consolidation. And in Hollywood, a biographical film about Sam Altman is being quietly buried by major studios in a pattern that suggests Big Tech relationships are now shaping what stories get told.
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