The best moments from MTS on May 8: Anthropic tracing AI blackmail behavior to doomer training data, the SPLC's alleged role in funding the groups it claims to fight, and the peptide zeitgeist sweeping San Francisco as founders microdose GLP-1s and discover new therapeutics.

Timecodes:

- (00:00) Marc Andreessen on AI doomer literature, corporate bloat, AI vampires

- (33:39) Jack Farley and Max Wiethe on jobs data, semiconductors, memory chip demand

- (53:10) Max Wiethe on peptides, GLP-1 microdosing, individualized medicine

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Best Of 5/8/26 | AI Doomer Literature, Suicidal Empathy, and Peptide Discovery

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Best Of 5/8/26 | AI Doomer Literature, Suicidal Empathy, and Peptide Discovery