Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate. This is very much worth reading.
INVESTMENT
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OpenAI leadership accused of charity theft and stock misconduct
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Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock
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Highest Paid Workers More Likely to Use AI
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Highest paid workers are more likely to use AI for work, according to Financial Times breakdown: https://
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China Blocks Meta Acquisition of Manus AI Agent
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China is blocking the Manus acquisition by Meta. A few things stand out: – China has historically been more opaque and less public in restricting foreign acquisitions of Chinese tech assets, while the US (CFIUS) has been more explicit and aggressive (e.g. Lattice)
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OpenAI Develops AI Phone Device with Jony Ive
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OpenAI is working on a phone. They are expected to compete with apples iPhone. First product however is expected to be a HomePod style device co-worked with ex apple legend Jony Ive
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Distribution bottleneck in consumer social apps strategy
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My biggest takeaways from @evanspiegel
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Buying Personal GPUs for AI Independence and Security
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That’s why I bought my own GPUs They cannot rug pull me https://
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AI Agents Token Costs: Systematic Study on SWE-bench
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How do AI Agents spend your money? Most teams treat agent token costs as a rounding error even though the data says they shouldn't. New paper presents the first systematic study of how agents actually spend money on coding tasks. They ran 8 frontier LLMs on SWE-bench Verified
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China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Acquisition Forcing Deal Unwind
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China just blocked Meta's $ 2B December acquisition of Manus and told Zuck to unwind the deal. Manus is technically Singapore-incorporated, but its founders, parent company, and offices in Beijing and Wuhan are all Chinese. Awkwardly, the teams are already merged, with Manus
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Scaling AI Without Control Creates Business Value Gap
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Everyone thinks they’re scaling AI. Most are just scaling chaos. What I’m seeing, including in conversations with @collibra
, is a dangerous illusion → faster experimentation
→ more pilots
→ zero control The gap between AI ambition and actual business value is widening.