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Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332
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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent: https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twistdomain CLA: https://www.claconnect.com/withyou Rippling: https://rippling.ai/twist Today's show: Hugging Face's $399 Microduck and the art of companies taking on side quests. Then, we get into Dwarkesh Patel's "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations," which blew up online this weekend. Jason calls the "secret AI civilization" framing deliberate PR, and thinks it's inflammatory enough that someone might attack a data center over it. Then, Anders Forslund of Heart Aerospace shows off the X1, a battery-powered electric airliner designed for regional flights that can fly for 30…