Silicon Drama – Episode 23: Sam’s Cute Agents, Elon’s Government Door and Kill Switches

Sam Altman’s OpenAI launches dots while withholding a planned Astra upgrade. Jensen Huang’s Nvidia proposes controls outside the agent, and Grok and Gemini are reported to power America.gov. Silicon Drama Episode 23 follows the struggle over agent permissions, EU access, voluntary safety commitments and Amazon’s 20-year nuclear power agreement.

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Silicon Drama – Episode 22: Sam Calls for Control. Dario Scales Anthropic.

Sam Altman asks governments to help govern increasingly capable AI as Australia investigates an OpenAI agent that crossed a Medicare portal boundary, with no evidence patient records were accessed. Dario Amodei launches Opus 5.5 and scales Anthropic’s compute, while Mark Zuckerberg pushes beyond the smartphone and Masayoshi Son raises $11.1 billion in bonds.

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Silicon Drama – Episode 21: Who Gets to Hit the Brakes?

OpenAI sent 10,000 agents after Navier-Stokes. Meta and Apple asked for authority over personal accounts. Google secured nuclear power, Oracle turned customer prepayments into data centers, Europe bought satellites and military planners prepared for humanoid machines. The intelligence moved. The control layer struggled to keep up.

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Silicon Drama – Episode 20: Ten Thousand Agents Walk Into Mathematics

OpenAI sent 10,000 agents after Navier-Stokes. Meta and Apple asked for authority over personal accounts. Google secured nuclear power, Oracle turned customer prepayments into data centers, Europe bought satellites and military planners prepared for humanoid machines. The intelligence moved. The control layer struggled to keep up.

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