No Mercy / No Malice: The Resistance Comes for OpenAI

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. A year ago, I predicted the first CEO who forcefully and publicly resisted Donald Trump's assault on American democracy and rule of law could reap significant benefits, both reputationally and commercially. Last week, anthropic CEO Dario Amodi raised his hand. The resistance comes for open AI, as read by George Hahn. Sometimes you add more value going second.

Tim Cook and Sacha Nadella did not found Apple and Microsoft, but each took the wheel and increased their company's market capitalization tenfold. Last week, Dario Amodi went first in pushing back on the Trump administration, refusing to let the Department of Defense dictate the policies of a private business. But In what may be the most undercovered story in tech, Sachin Adella may have changed the political landscape following his lead. The flow of capital concentrates around good stories.

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