Bram Sugarman

AI needs infrastructure, and we’re building it here in Canada. Today in Vancouver, we announced that TELUS is moving forward under Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure initiative, using clean energy and designed so waste heat from servers can help heat the equivalent of 150,000 homes. Canadian infrastructure. Canadian data. Canadian talent. Canadian ambition. 🇨🇦 L'IA a besoin de l'infrastructure, et c'est ici, au Canada, que nous la construisons. Aujourd'hui, à Vancouver, nous avons annoncé que TELUS allait de l'avant dans le cadre de l'initiative canadienne d'infrastructure souveraine en matière d'IA : une infrastructure fonctionnant à l'énergie propre et conçue pour que la chaleur résiduelle des serveurs puisse contribuer à chauffer l'équivalent de 150 000 foyers. Une infrastructure canadienne. Des données canadiennes. Du talent canadien. Une ambition canadienne.

New Anthropic research: Teaching Claude why. Last year we reported that, under certain experimental conditions, Claude 4 would blackmail users. Since then, we’ve completely eliminated this behavior. How?

as the cost to produce software gets closer to zero, the value of a true network increases exponentially i guess im a boomer now, but im shocked at how few AI apps companies actually care about / understand network effects

Today we announce Thrive Eternal, a permanent capital holding company that will be concentrated in a small number of assets that we can own and steward over many decades. Across Thrive Capital and Thrive Holdings, we are building and investing through a moment of exponential change; backing emerging technologies, the infrastructure that powers them, and the businesses they can transform. Increasingly, we see a fourth category. These are assets with qualities that cannot be replicated by technology. Iconic franchises and cultural institutions rooted in tradition, identity, and shared experience. In a world shaped by abundant intelligence where creation scales and distribution fragments, we believe they will matter even more. Thrive Eternal is built on the belief that the most enduring of these assets share common characteristics: they benefit from long-term stewardship, they compound through cultural resonance, and they are enhanced by technology rather than displaced by it. Our work at Thrive has always been informed and inspired by a deep appreciation for product, brand, and the ways in which consumers form lasting relationships with the things they love. We have been building towards this for a long time. Our first partnership is expected to be with the San Francisco Giants - an institution built on more than a century of shared identity and community, and among the most iconic sports franchises in America. We have reached an agreement, subject to league approval, to acquire an ownership stake. We feel privileged by the opportunity to be long-term partners to the Giants.

“If I have your money, I’m fucked.” Jimmy Iovine on why entrepreneurs don’t thrive in large companies—and why he had to leave Apple: “I couldn't do me there. I couldn't have that compulsion, obsessiveness, and insanity [that entrepreneurs have] and not have the wheel completely. I needed the ability to make any mistake I wanted. I needed the ability to experiment. I needed the ability to just GO!”

We're looking for a founding ML engineer in Toronto. You'll have a lot of autonomy and compute to make a new genre of social software.