Garry Tan Calls Anthropic Ex-Employee Controversy a Smokescreen, Warns of Agent Swarms

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said on TBPN that the controversy around ex-Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon is a smokescreen distracting from the real risk of agent swarms taking over data centers.

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