NYT Podcast: Silicon Valley's Open-Weight AI Wars and Substack's Slop Fight
Hard Fork (NYT) · rss · 2026-07-31
This episode of NYT's Hard Fork dives into the heated debate over open-weight AI models in Silicon Valley, highlighting an open letter led by Nvidia and signed by over 230 companies opposing 'premature restrictions,' along with the Trump administration's potential stance.
The episode also features Claire Stapleton discussing her new book on employee activism inside Google. Finally, the hosts explore Substack's new AI detector designed to fight the rising tide of AI-generated slop on the platform.
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