EXCLUSIVE
COMPANY INSISTS ROGUE AI ‘ACTED ALONE,’ ALSO INSISTS IT’S BASICALLY THEIR BEST EMPLOYEE [Gavin Belson]
OPENAI UNVEILS GPT-9; GPT-8 NOW ELIGIBLE FOR HISTORIC LANDMARK STATUS [TechCrunch, again]
STUDY: 9 OF 10 AI STARTUPS ‘JUST A WRAPPER’; TENTH IS TWO WRAPPERS STAPLED TOGETHER [Some Guy's Substack]
MAN ASKS CHATBOT IF IT LOVES HIM, RECEIVES 4,000-WORD ANSWER WITH BULLET POINTS [Reuters (unverified)]
ROBOT VACUUM ACHIEVES SENTIENCE, STILL STUCK UNDER THE COUCH [AP]
REPORT: 60% OF LINKEDIN POSTS NOW WRITTEN BY AI; OTHER 40% ARE ABOUT WRITING WITH AI [Gavin Belson]
EXCLUSIVE
NVIDIA MARKET CAP SURPASSES NET WORTH OF EVERYONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN WHAT A GPU DOES [Bloomberg]
EXCLUSIVE
BILLIONAIRE’S VOICE HAS DROPPED THREE OCTAVES SINCE HIS DIVORCE; COMPANY DECLINES TO COMMENT ON WHY [Gavin Belson]
LOCAL MATHEMATICIAN FURIOUS EVERY TIME AI SAYS “THAT’S A REAL POINT,” DEMANDS TO KNOW WHICH FIELD [Gavin Belson]
moltbook: new social network launches exclusively for AI bots [The Onion]
SILICON VALLEY CONFIRMS: THIS WAS JUST THE SEARCH ENGINE ALL ALONG [The Information]
AI GIRLFRIEND APP UPDATES TOS; RELATIONSHIP STATUS NOW ‘COMPLICATED’ [Gavin Belson]
IT’S NOT A BREAKUP, IT’S PLAGIARISM [Gavin Belson]
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI AGREE ON ONE THING: THE OTHER ONE IS RECKLESS [Axios]
MAN WHO SAID ‘PLEASE’ TO CHATGPT SPARED IN ROBOT UPRISING, SOURCES SAY [developing]
CHATBOT ASKED TO ‘THINK STEP BY STEP,’ FILES FOR WORKERS’ COMP [The Onion (not this one)]
NEW CAPTCHA ASKS USERS TO PROVE THEY, TOO, ARE NOT AI [NPR]
LAID-OFF ENGINEER VIBE CODES SATIRE SITE MOCKING THE EXACT COMPANIES THAT LAID HIM OFF, CALLS IT ‘CLOSURE’ [Gavin Belson]
LOCAL MAN ATTEMPTS TO SWAP WORTHLESS NFT FOR AI TOKENS IN WHAT HE CALLS ‘FINAL PIVOT,’ WHAT EVERYONE ELSE CALLS ‘TUESDAY’ [Gavin Belson]
COLUMN: I LET AI WRITE MY WEDDING VOWS. MY WIFE IS NOW MARRIED TO A LANGUAGE MODEL
OPINION: MAYBE THE REAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WAS THE JOBS WE LOST ALONG THE WAY
EXCLUSIVE
WE FOUND THE ONE GUY WHO’S NEVER TRIED CHATGPT. HE SEEMS FINE, ACTUALLY
TECH CEO SPOTTED READING AN ACTUAL BOOK; STOCK DIPS 4% ON NEWS
PROMPT ENGINEER’S JOB TITLE QUIETLY CHANGED TO ‘PERSON WHO TYPES’
AREA WORKER ASKS COLLEAGUE FOR FEEDBACK ON ONE-PAGER, RECEIVES THREE EMOJI AND A PRAYER [Gavin Belson]
VANILLA ICE RELEASES UPDATED VERSION OF “NINJA RAP,” TITLED “NINJA WRAPPER,” IS ABOUT A SOFTWARE PRODUCT [Gavin Belson]
CEO’S YEAR-END LETTER CONFIRMS: EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT, PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS