Sam Altman’s Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248
In a Nutshell
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 upgrade boosts agentic capabilities, image processing, and prompt-based controls, amid Stanford AI Index 2026 highlighting explosive GenAI adoption, China's research lead, dropping model transparency, rising AI incidents, and youth job losses in tech (22-25 age group down 20%). Physical AI backlash emerges with attacks on Sam Altman's home by Pause AI affiliate and data center bans in Maine/Missouri, while innovations like Amazon's Globalstar acquisition challenge Starlink, workers training their AI replacements, fully AI-run stores, and GitLab founder's AI-cured stage 4 cancer signal unstoppable acceleration. Humanity forks via longevity, BCI, space migration, and digital uploads; embrace AI-driven entrepreneurship, mobility, and moonshots to surf the singularity—capitalism evolves to equitable profit-sharing as orgs flatten and compute shifts orbital.
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A 20-year-old Texan threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco house. Suspect was on the official Pause AI Discord server list. Maine passed the first statewide data center ban in the US. Social unrest from fear and job loss. Only 23% of public optimistic about AI. 99% of people on the street underreacting and unaware.
If you don't want to use it, fine. Let other people use it and get the benefits of it.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 dropped.
Moderately interesting, not mythically interesting. New guidance: use prompts for everything. Osborning effect: desire for Mythos access. Amazon and Apple team up to compete against Starlink. Apple may pit Amazon, new global star owner, against SpaceX Starlink. Elon does not stand still.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 dropped as recording started. Comparison to 4.6 and Mythos. Alex tested generating cyberpunk first-person shooter game design: visually stunning. Solid release, possibly post-training or distillation of larger model, maybe Mythos. Expectation anchoring from Mythos evals leads to underwhelm.
Migration notes from 4.6 to 4.7: no temperature knob, no explicit reasoning token control. Handful of categorical settings: extra high reasoning as recommended default maximum, lower options. End of era for old controls like temperature=0 for deterministic behavior. New guidance: use prompts as dials and hyperparameters. Ask in natural language for reasoning trace every 3 seconds.
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