Dwarkesh's Blog Sparks AI Doomsday
Aug 31, 2026Watch on YouTube
Sony and Warner's publishing arm sued Anthropic over pirated lyrics and sheet music, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally — months after Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with book authors. Plus OpenAI pulls Cursor's model access after SpaceX's $60B buyout, OpenClaw ships 2.0 with multiplayer agents, a federal court rules Kalshi's sports contracts are gambling, and Sam Altman says OpenAI is 80% of the way to AGI.
Guests: Anders Forslund of Heart Aerospace, who just flew the largest electric aircraft ever built on $5 of electricity, and John Yu of Bitsec, whose agents out-hacked Fable 5 on a real client's codebase.
Also: our $5,000 Annotated.com bounty check-in with three demos from 52 submissions.
