Silicon Valley Shapes AI Hype And Culture

On this week's Galaxy Brain podcast, Charlie Warzel interviews writer Jasmine Sun about San Francisco's exuberant AI boom, massive salaries, and subcultural dynamics. They outline two dominant factions—the AI “doomers” and accelerationists—and trace a rightward political drift among founders alongside provocative marketing tactics. The conversation also emphasizes models' jagged capabilities, being brilliant at some tasks yet weak at others, impacting deployment choices.