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AGI Dreams Podcast – June 19, 2026
Anthropic's Beautiful Alignment — Safety, Strategy, and Self-Interest
In this episode:
Anthropic's Beautiful Alignment — Safety, Strategy, and Self-Interest — Ben Thompson analyzes how Anthropic justifies every business decision through safety rhetoric, while an $11K benchmark run revealed Fable's over-refusal problem burning tokens in agentic loops, and a class-action lawsuit challenges the opacity of Max subscription rate-limiting.
The Flat Curve Society — When Intelligence Hits a Ceiling You Can't See — Steve Yegge argues frontier AI capabilities are about to be locked down…
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