America Is Turning on AI
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI suspects three researchers of leaking internal model designs to an outside researcher over Signal, and all three are out. Nick and Jack talk about what that means for safety and secrecy, whether a new OpenAI model lands before Christmas, and why Opus 5.5 seems stronger now, not nerfed. Then speed: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash running at about 1,500 tokens a second on Fireworks, why quantity is quality now, and the cost of context switching and burnout. A new national poll says 57% of Americans think AI is bad for society, and 65% of people under 30 feel…
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