OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
…The original idea was purportedly to have a Y Combinator research arm, which Musk shot down because he didn’t want to be affiliated with Y Combinator. Imagine a montage of cozy…
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After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
…I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…But then the Trump administration came to power, and good old Brendan Carr has been coming up with reasons — which of course never actually get articulated to anyone — why any company related…
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
…decision for Altman to leave the company, adding, “They’ve walked me through all the reasons and the issues with you and why you can’t be ceo.” Altman asked why…
ChatGPT and Gemini apps are coming for your PC
…premise — looking at you, True Detective — but this is a win even just as a reason to rewatch the first season. * Gradient Weather. Y’all, I think somebody finally made the gorgeous…
The most exciting laptop I’ve seen in forever
…Fun times! Also the reason we’re gonna do Ruthless Self-Promotion Week next week — still going through all your emails, thanks again to everyone who wrote in! I also have…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…Andrej Karpathy, an educator and researcher who was on OpenAI’s founding team, had called this new behavior “vibe coding.” Suddenly the vibes were off the charts. The rise of AI…
We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings
…We’ve attempted to translate these 22 points from Alex Karp’s alien words into something more reasonable, like human words from someone who might play him in the biopic. (Hello, Taika…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…What approach did you land on? I think the reason we’ve been able to make so much progress in this space, firstly was the decade of investment in this interoperable format…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…You hired a human researcher and then replaced her with AI. And you were like, “This is pretty much as good and it’s much cheaper than my human researcher.” And then…