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This Anthropic Researcher Just Quit... And Then Went Viral

2026-09-11 · 9 company · 36 thematic

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Co-host of Limitless Podcast (episode 210), a 4x/week show covering the frontier of AI and technology with a newsletter reaching hundreds of thousands. The podcast recently spun out as an independent entity.

david hoffman

Co-host of Limitless Podcast; contributes to discussion on modular power solutions and regulatory bottlenecks for data center energy deployment.

josh kale

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“The iPhone Duo is not a tool in the way that the iPhone Pro is. And I find this to be really disappointing because the phone for me is such a tool in the sense that it has the best processor for getting work done. It has the best visual op…”

—josh kale

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