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Claire Stapleton
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Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
Kevin RooseCasey NewtonClaire Stapleton
Open weights are an industrial-policy fight: they cheapen intelligence for NVIDIA and non-frontier companies, while a three-to-seven-month lag creates a volatile US-China policy window.Cyber incidents show the risk is concrete, but more than 1,200 employees’ call to pace development lacks the technology, international coordination, and IPO-compatible incentives to become a brake.Google’s walkout exposes how management can contain dissent, while Substack’s $9 million Pangram integration tests whether authenticity disclosures can protect subscriber value and control automated-content costs.