A curated roundup highlighting the week’s notable links: the intensifying AI safety conversation, practical bond-market guidance with higher yields, leadership changes at Berkshire Hathaway, and assorted policy, geopolitical, and tech incidents that mattered.
AI safety is a central, contested topic this week after high-profile essays and resignations prompted industry leaders and politicians to weigh in.
Corporate and geopolitical developments — Berkshire Hathaway’s chair change, an Iran strike damaging an Amazon data center, and ICE hiring issues — mattered to markets and policy discussions.
How to structure a bond portfolio, especially if you don't know where interest rates are headed. (dampedspring101.substack.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper Berkshire Hathaway Howard Buffett is now the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A). (wsj.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper Symbols: $BRK.A Three issues to consider with the new Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A).
(techcrunch.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper ICE ICE did not do adequate vetting during its hiring spree. (yahoo.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper Alligator Alcatraz really was rife with abuses. (nbcnews.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper Politics Historically the Attorney General doesn't campaign for political candidates.
Sunday links: the AI safety debate Quote of the Day "This moment requires treating the AI-safety debate skeptically but also taking it seriously, even if the participants can seem unserious." (Charlie Warzel) Chart of the Day Why starting bond yields matter. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper. (humbledollar.com) Tweet Pocket Instapaper Bonds are now investable.
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of […]
In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about the AI industry's existential angst, and its plan to slow everything down.
Strategy How has the stock market shrugged off higher rates? (awealthofcommonsense.com) Opportunities are opening up in the bond market. (capitalspectator.com) What is a bond investor to do now? (fortunesandfrictions.com) Technology The scale of the iPhone is truly staggering. (asymco.com) Why hasn't there been a succe
Markets A positive seasonal window is opening. (trendlabs.com) Bonds are no longer overvalued. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Strategy Why indexing has dominated the past decade. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why Warren Buffett succeeded: his investment strategy matched structure. (jasonzweig.com) How to avoid getting taken
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