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That Was The Week

by Keith Teare

That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription. thatwastheweek.substack.com

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  1. Venture Opportunities - Hidden in Plain Sight

    Five takeaways from this week’s issue: 1. Venture capital is separating into different businesses—not simply failing. Financing the scale of established AI leaders and discovering companies before consensus require different LPs, funds, checks and skills. Kyle Harrison sees strategy drift; Fred...

  2. Men and Machines

    1. Being smarter doesn’t give AI the right to decide for you. What matters is what it can access, what it can do and who can stop it. Those controls must be engineered and enforced. A more intelligent model is no substitute for accountable humans. 2. “Find me the best insurance” isn’t permission…

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  3. AI Is Becoming Permanent

    1. Your next computer may be operated by your agent—not you. You describe the outcome you want. Your assistant uses the browser, software and tools to get there. 2. Your voice may become the interface. Instead of opening an app or sitting at a keyboard, you speak to your assistant wherever you...

  4. The Future Just Showed Itself

    1. The agent becomes the interface; the device becomes secondary. Facebook’s Muse points toward a different relationship with computing: delegate a task rather than navigate an application. A persistent agent operates a computer in the cloud, while glasses, earphones or a phone provide access....

  5. What is Alignment?

    Five takeaways: Alignment is not a negotiation between beings. Models are software and data. Trust lives in the harness around them, not as a personality trait inside them. The labs own the outcome. Asking government to coordinate a slowdown is an admission of weak software. Slowing themselves to...

  6. AI Is Grown

    Five Takeaways 1. AI is grown, not alive. Its capabilities emerge from training on human knowledge, but surprise and competence are not consciousness. 2. AI does not originate the intention. Humans choose the objectives, tools, permissions and environment. Calling model behavior “scheming”…

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  7. Bill Gates vs Tim O’Reilly: The Manufacture of AI Fear

    1. AI capability is not the danger. It is the point. The fact that AI can exceed human capability in some domains is the whole point. Speed, scale, productivity, discovery, and leverage are the reward, not the problem. 2. Risk lives in deployment, not intelligence itself. Bad answers,...

  8. Who Are the AI Champions?

    1. AI’s problem is not lack of usage, it is lack of public advocacy. A growing number of people already use AI in ordinary work and life, often happily and quietly. The public argument, however, is dominated by critics. That creates a false picture: the negative voices sound like the majority...

  9. Why Watermark?

    Why Watermark? Claude wants everybody to know it is there. Keith Teare argues that this is exactly the wrong instinct. The issue is not whether AI touched a piece of work. The issue is whether the work is true, useful, accountable, and human-directed. Watermarking starts from suspicion A…

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  10. Humans Create Intelligence

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  11. AI Detected?

    1. AI use is now a test of relevance. For creators, the question is no longer whether AI touched the work. The question is whether the creator understands the new tools well enough to use them with judgment. 2. It is not cheating to use AI. Pens, printing presses, typewriters, calculators,...

  12. AI And Its Enemies

    That Was The Week 2026 #27 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

  13. Intelligence: Who Owns it?

    This week’s video transcript summary is here. You can click on any bulleted section to see the actual transcript. Thanks to Granola for its software.There was an issue with this only going to paid subscribers, so sending it again. Apologies to those who get it twice. I appreciate being paid so…

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  14. Intelligence: Who Owns it?

    This week’s video transcript summary is here. You can click on any bulleted section to see the actual transcript. Thanks to Granola for its software. Editorial Intelligence: Who Owns it? This week the word “AI” feels too small. AI is a technology. Intelligence is its product. And if intelligence…

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  15. What Time is it?

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  16. America, the Beautiful

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  17. Payback's a B***h, Baby

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  18. Your Job Title is a Liability

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  19. "Please Regulate Me" Oh Wait!

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  20. What is the End Game?

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  21. Venture Capital is Transforming

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  22. "Who Done It?" - Can AI Kill Us?

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  23. Civilization: What Is Worth Doing?

    AI can do more of the work. It cannot decide what is worth doing. This week’s That Was The Week asks the civilization question behind the AI boom: if machines take over more execution, what do humans choose to build with the time, capital, and freedom that remain? This is a public episode. If…

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  24. Hands Off?

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  25. Who Gets to Tell the AI Story?

    Three narrative engines are competing to define what AI means: the doom industry (selling fear), the corporate machine (selling story), and the financial machine (selling access). All three assume ordinary people need mediators to understand AI. All are driven by financial or political…

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  26. Growing Up?

    Growing Up? Winning Wars Involves Losing Battles. Anthropic won a First Amendment ruling against the Pentagon. OpenAI killed Sora. One insisted on principle. The other chose discipline. Meanwhile: software trades below the S&P 500 for the first time ever, Jensen pitched a trillion-dollar token...

  27. Public Markets Price Outcomes

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  28. AI: Loved And Hated - Which Is It to Be?

    Adopted Yet Hated - Which Is It to Be? That Was The Week #8 | March 7-13, 2026 900 million users. 10,000 empty pages. The gap between them won't be closed by better arguments. This Week's Thesis Nine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week. Ten thousand authors published an empty book to...

  29. That Was The Week - Apple TV App

    Apple TV App for That Was The Week This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

  30. Missing in Action - Real Leadership

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  31. Anthropic is Wrong

    Who Decides AI Use Policy? Companies or Governments? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

  32. Public Venture Capital - Democratization or Scam?

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  33. Anthropics Super Bowl Ad is dishonest

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  34. Growing Up?

    Dario Amodei warns that AI is in its adolescence, racing toward a "country of geniuses." But look closer at the market this week. OpenAI is seeking a $750B+ valuation while shoving intent-style ads into chatbots This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

  35. Whither Europe?

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  36. 2025 And All That: The Path to Abundance

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  37. Human¹⁰⁰

    Human¹⁰⁰: Why This Week Proves AI Is Our Greatest Invention, Not Our Replacement This editorial argues that artificial intelligence is best understood as a powerful human multiplier, not a substitute for human labor or creativity. Drawing on recent productivity data, AI is already saving the...

  38. Winner Takes it All? Or, The Great Compression

    Is the chaos in the market actually a rational response to a new innovation curve? This week, we explore The Great Compression—a phenomenon collapsing the distance between venture capital stages, career ladders, and the way we access reality. We analyze why "$2 billion seed rounds" and the death…

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  39. The Year of Intelligence

    The week ending November 30, 2025, was characterized as a "wacky races kind of week," with constant shifts in the perceived leadership of the AI sector. Google was highlighted as the biggest weekly winner, seeing a rise in stock, positive reviews for Gemini, and developing its own chip that…

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  40. AI, Agents & the New Age of Progress: Work, Poverty & the Future

    AI isn’t breaking the web or destroying jobs—it’s ushering in a new Age of Progress. Intelligent agents, robotics, and abundant compute are pushing us toward optional work, collapsing labor costs and reshaping the economics of wealth. The real challenge: whether society can build the policies and...

  41. The Manufactured Moral Panic Against AI

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  42. Is China the New America?

    SEO Summary: An in-depth editorial exploring China’s rise in AI and GDP share, historical parallels to U.S. industrial dominance, and how cooperation—not rivalry—will define the next century of technological progress. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers…

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  43. Can OpenAI Shape Our Future?

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  44. What is a Browser? What is a Bubble?

    What Is a Browser? What Is a Bubble? ChatGPT Has an Answer Meta Description: OpenAI’s Atlas redefines the web browser as an AI-powered action layer, sparking debate over the future of the open web, advertising, and infrastructure investment. “That Was The Week” explores the shift from navigation…

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  45. Media: Forever Blowing Bubbles?

    Financial media loves the word “bubble.” It sells fear and draws clicks. But when it comes to AI, that narrative misses the mark. The surge in capital flowing into models, chips, and cognitive infrastructure isn’t speculative mania—it’s the next Enlightenment: a global reallocation of resources...

  46. Come to Daddy: OpenAI Wants Your Attention

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  47. The Great Platform Pivot

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  48. OpenAI Just Shifted the Interface - And the Power

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  49. Who's For Free Speech?

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  50. Optimizing for Change: Why Exuberance is Required

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That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription.

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Keith Teare

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