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Derek Thompson

What Derek Thompson thinks about Anthropic

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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025.

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  1. Our readingFrontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating.

    OpenAIcybersecurity

    Their wordsAn analysis by the AI Security Institute found that the capabilities of frontier models (i.e., from OpenAI and Anthropic) are roughly doubling every few months, and this doubling rate has actually gotten faster over time.

    ↗How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypsederekthompson.org 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  3. Our readingAnthropic or OpenAI's revenue could equal or exceed the combined revenue of Elon Musk's public companies within the next one to two years.

    OpenAI

    Their wordsit's not out of the question that Anthropic or OpenAI-which barely had any revenue before 2023-could equal or surpass the revenue of all of Musk's public companies some time in the next 12 to 24 months.

    ↗The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilizationderekthompson.org 1st of 3 in this piece