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Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight

Jul 31, 2026 · 1h 6m

Summary

Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss Silicon Valley’s push for open-source AI against Trump administration restrictions and a separate employee-led call to pace AI development. They analyze the OpenAI-Hugging Face cyber incident and interview Claire Stapleton about her memoir on Google activism.

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