# Marcus on AI "Marcus has become one of our few indispensable public intellectuals. The more people read him, the better our actions in shaping Al will be." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future Page: Feed: --- ## [Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/dwarkesh-patelss-wildly-popular-but) _2026-08-31 · Gary Marcus_ When “plain English” isn’t a good thing. ## [5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/5-lessons-from-the-openai-hugging) _2026-08-28 · Gary Marcus_ Did OpenAI really do the best they could? ## [Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/excellent-new-bill-gates-essay-on) _2026-08-26 · Gary Marcus_ The time to tame Silicon Valley has come ## [Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/anthropics-30-trillion-fantasy) _2026-08-25 · Gary Marcus_ And you thought the SpaceX S-1 was ridiculous ## [Two ways it might all fall apart](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-ways-it-might-all-fall-apart) _2026-08-24 · Gary Marcus_ Not mutually exclusive ## [A few words about Canada and the US](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-few-words-about-canada-and-the) _2026-08-23 · Gary Marcus_ Sorry, this one is not about AI. But sometimes one must speak out. ## [BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-more-bad-news-for-the-frontier) _2026-08-23 · Gary Marcus_ Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs? ## [ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/arr-vs-arr-watch-out-for-this-one) _2026-08-22 · Gary Marcus_ What’s in an acronym? How to read between the lines. ## [Data center madness](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/data-center-madness) _2026-08-21 · Gary Marcus_ Two estimates of how crazy AI Capex has gotten, and four new signs that public opinion has totally soured ## [OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openai-is-becoming-a-surveillance) _2026-08-20 · Gary Marcus_ It’s not even really trying to hide it ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6CFfuwSlyKDU) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Leopold’s Folly](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/leopolds-folly) _2026-08-20 · Gary Marcus_ How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era ## [Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-the-republican-party-is) _2026-08-20 · Gary Marcus_ And panicking with good reason ## [BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun) _2026-08-19 · Gary Marcus_ Their planned IPO is facing headwinds, trust has evaporated, and their burn rate is only getting worse ## [Google’s biggest mistake?](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/googles-biggest-mistake) _2026-08-18 · Gary Marcus_ A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next ## [Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-us-young-adults-are-now) _2026-08-18 · Gary Marcus_ Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash. ## [No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-dario-amodei-we-will-not-be-curing) _2026-08-17 · Gary Marcus_ What Amodei left out ## [The hyping of Anthropic’s IPO](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-hyping-of-anthropics-ipo) _2026-08-16 · Gary Marcus_ Some strong claims, dissected ## [The one issue unifying the American public](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-one-issue-unifying-the-american) _2026-08-11 · Gary Marcus_ Brief but significant news about a new poll ## [BREAKING: Circular financing reaches new heights](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-circular-financing-reaches) _2026-08-11 · Gary Marcus_ Things could get bad if this all falls apart ## [Open-source is NOT the same as open-weight](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-source-is-not-the-same-as-open) _2026-08-10 · Gary Marcus_ How The New York Times just bungled this one, and why it matters, immensely ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IoYPxC6fqteg) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [CPUs and the rise of neurosymbolic AI](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/cpus-and-the-rise-of-neurosymbolic) _2026-08-07 · Gary Marcus_ A new paradigm is developing, and the world is changing faster than most people realize ## [Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-reasons-i-wouldnt-count-google) _2026-08-06 · Gary Marcus_ Down but still in the mix