Anthropic: the scariest pitch deck ever Anthropic’s plan for a public offering reveals existential risks, vast spend, a concentration of customers and a special vehicle to keep founders in control. Can it keep the show on the road, asks @barneymac bit.ly/4dd0FcU

Thrilled with this news. hls.harvard.edu/today/sherif…

My latest on the Houthis and the broader regional order: Over the past week, Saudi Arabia has come under attack—on two fronts. First, in Yemen, the Houthis seized the port city of Mocha on September 10 and advanced along the Red Sea coast toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital waterway for Saudi exports. Meanwhile, drones from Iraq struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, the roughly 750-mile artery carrying oil from the eastern fields toward Red Sea export terminals. The attacks coincide with the Iraqi government’s September 30 deadlinefor nonstate groups in the country to disarm, and with mounting U.S. and Israeli pressure on the Islamic Republic that arms and sustains them. They also come amid a much broader campaign against the regional proxy system that Tehran has spent decades building. Since the U.S. war with Iran began on February 28, Operations Epic Fury and Economic Fury have placed the Islamic Republic under severe military and financial strain, while the U.S. Treasury Department has targeted Iranian oil exports, shadow-fleet tankers, financial intermediaries, and foreign procurement networks. thefp.com/p/houthi-defeat-sa…

A Philadelphia public school set aside a room for one religion — and punished non-Muslim students who walked in. An important ruling for Jewish students and their families in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  A federal judge has denied, in substantial part, a motion to dismiss filed by three School District of Philadelphia officials, sustaining our clients’ claims surrounding the School District’s establishment of a school room “designated for one religion” – Islam – and punishing non-Muslim students for entering. The Court agreed with our claim that this arrangement violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The Court also approved of our Due Process claims arising out of punishments school officials imposed, when school records showed our clients were innocent, and when the school ignored basic procedural protections.   Making new law in the District, the court also held that the school officials were not entitled to qualified immunity.    The plaintiffs are represented pro bono by The Deborah Project, which litigates to protect the civil rights of Jewish students in America's K-12 schools and in colleges and universities. dailywire.com/news/jewish-st…

If you tell AI to write in a style designed to beat Pangram—designed to get a 100% human written score—can Pangram still tell it's AI-written? Just tried this. Pangram said it was 100% AI-written. Here's was my request, to Claude Opus 5.

Anthropic’s co-founders are looking to secure greater voting control ahead of its Mega-IPO. The Information’s @coryweinberg explains: "They are essentially using this IPO as a chance to cement more hard power. And in the corporate world, that means voting power."

This is a rabbinical dynasty that has been unable to detect an antisemite for over 80 years. They said the same thing about emigrating from Hungary when the Nazis took over (while the grand rabbi himself skipped town) so I wouldn’t take their advice.

The erosion of meritocracy in academia extends far beyond Jason Arday. Strategic Management Journal, one of the top-tier journals in management, accepted a paper showing negative market reactions to the appointment of Black executives. After acceptance, it was changed because readers objected. This is extremely unusual. Editors and reviewers can raise concerns, but readers play no role in the review process. Once a paper is accepted, it might later be retracted if serious errors are found which affect its scientific accuracy, but not just because people don't like it. Moreover, once a paper is accepted and posted online, it becomes part of the scientific record. When I was Managing Editor of a journal, sometimes the publisher or the authors made a minor omission (e.g. leaving off the acceptance date or an acknowledgement). The publisher refused to simply add the missing information; they would only issue a corrigendum, leaving the original version intact. Even if a paper is retracted, it still typically remains visible. Here, the original manuscript has completely disappeared. So, the scientific community can only see the version that readers wanted, not the one the authors wrote and the editor/referees accepted. Remarkably, it has been treated even worse than some retracted papers: their original versions remain visible; this one does not. sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…

Irish Government’s New €53M Jet Unable to Land in Fog After Officials Remove Israeli-Made Navigation System 🚨🇮🇱🇮🇪 Ireland bought a €53M Dassault Falcon 6X to stop ministers from getting "stranded" abroad. The punchline? They intentionally ripped out the plane's standard "FalconEye" low-visibility navigation system because it is "manufactured by Israel". Now, the shiny new VIP transport cannot handle basic Irish winter fog and requires higher visibility thresholds to land. 📷DOD

Tucker Carlson's favourite "political scientist", John Mearsheimer, and his ATROCIOUS predictions on the war in Ukraine: Feb. 2022: "I don't think Russia is going to invade." Sep. 2023: "The Ukrainians are doomed to lose." Jan. 2024: "It's ridiculous to think Ukraine can hold the line in 2024." Apr. 2025: "It's unimaginable Ukraine will hang on beyond 2025." Jul. 2026: "The Russians are slowly moving forward." The Jim Cramer of foreign policy predictions.

William Savitt, a top partner at New York law firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, is leaving for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as part of a six-partner move that shakes up the litigation leadership at both firms. reuters.com/legal/legalindus…