I spoke with Logan Graham, who is helping lead Anthropic's Project Glasswing, about the reaction to yesterday's announcement
He says Glasswing could "transition very quickly into a third-party-led consortium that features all the other model providers," including OpenAI sources.news/p/anthropic-...
every tech CEO lives long enough to try and be Steve Jobs
There are many people you've never heard of at OAI individually worth nine figures
I spoke with the ClawFather for his first interview since joining OpenAI a few weeks ago.
He’s already built a bridge between Codex and his personal OpenClaw agent. sources.news/p/clawfather...
New pod: Did Disney dodge a bullet with OpenAI? Is Fortnite the bigger problem? With @alexeheath.com. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/79Zn...
This is how fast things move at OpenAl: The company published a blog post updating Sora's content policies yesterday. When Fidji Simo joined ACCESS just seven weeks ago, she talked at length about Sora and hinted at bringing its video generation to ChatGPT. Despite how the early hype around it had fizzled, she said Sora was "really nailing creation," and that the company was "excited about what we're seeing."
Sam Altman also laid out a reorg today. He's moving safety under Mark Chen's research org and security under Greg Brockman's scaling org, freeing himself up to focus more on fundraising and building data centers. Simo is now the CEO of "AGI Deployment," or essentially everything else. Altman said OpenAl has finished pretraining its next model, codenamed Spud, which he expects to produce a "very strong model" in a few weeks that the team believes "can really accelerate the economy."
Via @alexeheath.com, two more ridiculous bits about OpenAI killing Sora.
1. Lack of focus or internal coordination expressed in executive comms. “This is how fast things move”? Sora has been over for months.
2. They’re splitting safety from security (ok) and putting security under “scaling”?
“I don’t think Claude is going to go build a bank”
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund joins us this week on the pod to talk all things AI and banking, thinking outside of the box, companies whitewashing their layoffs with AI, tech's poker culture, and more sources.news/p/mercury-ce...
From my interview with Spotify’s co-CEO at SXSW:
Spotify is building the ability to remix and create covers of songs with AI. He calls it a “huge missed opportunity for artists” sources.news/p/inside-spo...
- This week on the pod: Starboy’s creator joined from a hot tub
- What I’m up to at SXSW / Nvidia GTC
- Notes on news about Meta, xAI, Perplexity, and Travis Kalanick sources.news/p/starboy-an...
I spoke with Anthropic employees in the midst of the company's fight with the Trump administration and Claude hitting the top of the App Store sources.news/p/my-day-ins...
Earlier this week, I spent an afternoon inside Anthropic HQ meeting with various leaders. It was fascinating and I learned a lot. sources.news/p/my-day-ins...
Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.
More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Google's Liz Reid on the progression of AI in Google Search - here are my notes on that interview by @alexeheath.com www.seroundtable.com/liz-reid-goo...
#google #googleai #googleaimode
Sources: OpenAI is pausing the rollout of ChatGPT Adult Mode
More in today's newsletter sources.news/p/liz-reid-g...
If you believe what both OpenAI and Anthropic proclaim — that they’re building AGI that will change everything — this bitterness should probably alarm you. sources.news/p/darios-big...
I’ve never seen such a combination of technical and moral (at least perceived) superiority from a tech company since the heyday of Apple. sources.news/p/anthropic-...
No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...
Full video www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhv...
Interviewed Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about AI slop, agents, his deals with OpenAI and Google, becoming a better platform for creators, his worry about prediction markets, and a lot more sources.news/p/steve-huff...
What AI bubble? In an interview, Stripe co-founder John Collison said the payments giant isn't seeing the signs
“No one’s looking for a refund of their tokens” sources.news/p/why-stripe...
I spoke with the co-author of the Citrini viral AI prediction post that tanked stock prices. sources.news/p/the-ai-doo...
Sources: Snap’s SVP of Specs, who had been leading the hardware effort for six years, is out after a “blow-up” with CEO Evan Spiegel about the company’s strategy sources.news/p/figmas-ans...
The comfortable industry narrative is that AI is a tool. The 4o saga is a window into how many people view LLMs as companions and even lovers. sources.news/p/openais-4o...
Lots of chatter this week about what’s behind all the departures at xAI
Turns out the reason mostly boils down to what all-too-often actually drives the AI industry’s drama: money sources.news/p/what-happe...
New interview: OpenAI's CEO of Applications. Fidji Simo, on how ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, a social network for AI agents, the state of Sora, and a lot more
Her first in-depth pod since joining OpenAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmBK...
Whoops, should be "friend," fixed
I mean, it’s just fake
