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Abram Brown @ The Information 1 place · today 11:38 EDT

Weekend: AI, Land of Make-Believe

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: What Anthropic’s Pentagon feud means across Silicon Valley• Artificial Intelligence: Otters, Minesweeper and Will Smith’s spaghetti dinner—the at-home tests for judging AI’s abilities• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Murder at the U,” “End of Days” and “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast”A couple days ago, a piece of science fiction caused a good amount of fuss, with Citrini Research’s “thought exercise” on the economic consequences

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