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EMAD MOSTAQUE: AI Will RUN Our Countries Soon! We Aren't Ready!
In a wide-ranging interview on the Beyond Tomorrow podcast, Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque argues that within 30-40 years every country will be run by AI, that democracy is in its final decade or two, and that most digital jobs will be economically irrelevant within roughly a thousand days. He puts his personal probability of catastrophe (P-doom) at 50%, warns of intelligence being rationed by a duopoly of powerful labs, and lays out a counter-vision: sovereign, collectively owned 'national champion' AI utilities that give every citizen access to intelligence and a share of the robot fleet. Along the way he explores AI personhood, brain-computer interfaces, longevity escape velocity, quantum computing, and whether we should push a button to eliminate all human suffering.
Dario Amodei
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei sits for a wide-ranging interview at what the host calls the center of the AI universe. He describes the felt experience of running the fastest-growing company in the industry as a 'smooth exponential' that feels like accelerating away from Earth at relativistic speed. Amodei explains why Anthropic bet on enterprise and coding over splashy consumer apps, recounts why he left OpenAI (a loss of trust, not merely a safety disagreement), and defends the company's controversial choices: working with the Department of Defense while drawing red lines against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, warning about entry-level white-collar job loss, and holding back Mythos, a cyber model so capable that early testers called it a 'super weapon.' Throughout he returns to a single thesis: respond to AI's accelerating power rationally and steadily, never 'yo-yoing' between complacency and panic.
OpenAI's $122B Megaround Shows AI Funding Has Gone Nuclear
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history — $122 billion in committed capital at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. Anchored by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B), with continued participation from Microsoft and a sweeping syndicate of global institutions, the round dwarfs every prior private tech raise and cements OpenAI as the world's most valuable startup by a wide margin. The company is generating $2 billion in monthly revenue, counting 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, and is widely expected to pursue an IPO.