#159: The Anthropic Cult, Musk & China/UK, Dopamine Shops, Russia's Shadow War + Assassination Plots

Is Anthropic starting to look less like an AI company and more like a cult? In this episode of Divulgence, we dive into the increasingly bizarre world of artificial intelligence and the people building it. Reports from inside Anthropic describe employees anthropomorphizing Claude and even holding what resembled a funeral ceremony for a retired AI model—raising a much bigger question about whether the people developing these systems are beginning to believe their own mythology. We also examine...