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“… Altman supported Emote, but in private, he did the deal Anthropic wouldn't. The following day, after news of Altman's deal broke, U.S. uninstalls of ChatGPT increased 295 percent, and Claude climbed to number one in the App Store. Anthropic's annual recurring revenue surged to $19 billion from $14 billion just a few weeks ago, adding an estimated $150 billion to its valuation. Altman and OpenAI came across as reckless, duplicitous, and self-serving. Amodi and Anthropic came across as safety-conscious, honest, and selfless. A year ago, I predicted the first CEO who forcefully and publicly resisted …”“Publicly, Altman supported Emote, but in private, he did the deal Anthropic wouldn't. The following day, after news of Altman's deal broke, U.S. uninstalls of ChatGPT increased 295 percent, and Claude climbed to number one in the App Store. Anthropic's annual recurring revenue surged to $19 billion from $14 billion just a few weeks ago, adding an estimated $150 billion to its valuation. Altman and OpenAI came across as reckless, duplicitous, and self-serving. Amodi and Anthropic came across as safety-conscious, honest, and selfless. A year ago, I predicted the first CEO who forcefully and publicly resisted Trump could reap significant benefits, both reputationally and commercially. With its reputation for breaking barriers and the boldness chromosome in its DNA, I thought, hoped, it would be Nike. But Emody just did it, and Microsoft followed his lead, filing a brief in support of Anthropix lawsuit seeking to block its designation as a supply chain …”View more
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OpenAI is emblematic of a tech industry prioritizing ROI over humanity, with leadership decisions reflecting a concerning shift towards unethical practices.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway·No Mercy / No Malice: The Resistance Comes for OpenAI·Mar 14, 2026
“… Anthropic sued. The legal battle continued. Claude continued to be used in the war in Iran. And everything is just a mess with that situation. When ChatGPT stepped in and announced that they had signed an agreement with the Department of War on the same night that the ultimatum came to pass, it did not go well for OpenAI. There was a 775% surge in one-star reviews for ChatGPT, and Claude made it to number one in the App Store for the first time ever. Now, that situation is obviously far from resolved, but you can see that there is some pretty clear political resonance around these AI issues. Now, …”“… issuing ultimatums and deadlines and threatening not only to not work with Anthropic, but to designate them as a supply chain risk, which hadn't been done to a U.S. company before. Anthropic did not comply. They were designated a supply chain risk. Anthropic sued. The legal battle continued. Claude continued to be used in the war in Iran. And everything is just a mess with that situation. When ChatGPT stepped in and announced that they had signed an agreement with the Department of War on the same night that the ultimatum came to pass, it did not go well for OpenAI. There was a 775% surge in one-star reviews for ChatGPT, and Claude made it to number one in the App Store for the first time ever. Now, that situation is obviously far from resolved, but you can see that there is some pretty clear political resonance around these AI issues. Now, another area where AI politics grew in stature this quarter was around the politics of data centers. We had started to get some glimpses of this towards the end of last year, as a number of smaller campaigns at the state and congressional level began to focus in on data center-related issues. Ultimately, this led to President Trump getting all the …”View more
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AI's rapid growth is tempered by significant challenges in data quality and regulatory hurdles, highlighting a complex landscape of both opportunity and constraint.
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis·The State of AI Q2: AI's Second Moment·Mar 30, 2026
“last year. And to put it frankly, ChatGPT wants a piece of that action. You know, right now, ChatGPT is competing with rivals like Replica. Replica is a little bit of a smaller AI platform that users can just pay a fee to get adult content or what's sometimes called ERP, erotic role play. So that's like baked right into something that they offer. And AI like Elon Musk's Grok, right, which we'd had a whole conversation about the ways that Grok was being used to create non-consensual …”“last year. And to put it frankly, ChatGPT wants a piece of that action. You know, right now, ChatGPT is competing with rivals like Replica. Replica is a little bit of a smaller AI platform that users can just pay a fee to get adult content or what's sometimes called ERP, erotic role play. So that's like baked right into something that they offer. And AI like Elon Musk's Grok, right, which we'd had a whole conversation about the ways that Grok was being used to create non-consensual sexualized images of women and minors. And so Elon Musk's AI is notable in that there are hardly any guardrails there. They even have a mode that you can spend money for, Grok unhinged mode, which is exactly what it sounds like, right?”View more
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ChatGPT is now vying for a piece of the adult content market, competing with platforms like Replica that specialize in erotic role play. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's Grok lacks safety measures, allowing users to create non-consensual sexualized images, highlighting the stark differences in how these AI platforms handle adult content. This raises significant ethical concerns about the direction of AI in intimate spaces.
There Are No Girls on the Internet·Sam Altman Wants You to Have Sex with ChatGPT·Mar 17, 2026
“Sam Alpen has come out numerous times. They do not upload sensitive information to ChatGPT. I think this guy is a marketing genius or something because whatever he says to not do, everyone does it more. Imagine something which is kind of benign today and then the US government or someone else goes and subpoenas ChatGPT for all the records of people who are talking about that thing. Then they go and arrest everyone. Would you be happy just passing off all of your information, all of your IP, all of your strategy information to someone …”“Sam Alpen has come out numerous times. They do not upload sensitive information to ChatGPT. I think this guy is a marketing genius or something because whatever he says to not do, everyone does it more. Imagine something which is kind of benign today and then the US government or someone else goes and subpoenas ChatGPT for all the records of people who are talking about that thing. Then they go and arrest everyone. Would you be happy just passing off all of your information, all of your IP, all of your strategy information to someone that you have no idea. It's basically the gates, the need for actual espionage because they're just giving them all the data for free. AI has shown itself to be one of those big threats, not only from the actual gathering of data that goes into the models, but then for the actual deployment and use of those models afterwards and the harvesting of …”View more
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Imagine sharing your most intimate thoughts, only to find out they're being logged for potential government subpoenas. Eamonn Maguire discusses how AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's personal intelligence can turn your private conversations into a treasure trove of data for authorities. This alarming reality raises serious questions about privacy and data ownership in the age of AI.
The Neuron: AI Explained·The Privacy Nightmare Hiding Inside Every AI Chat·Mar 22, 2026
“… direct folks to a website to register for a training course. I'd previously done this on a website, but that was a bit of a pain. On a whim, I asked ChatGPT if it would generate an image of a QR code linked to that URL. It created one that worked perfectly. I pasted it into the newsletter. Easy peasy. Roy, P.S. Love the show. Never miss it. Though on occasion, it costs me money. Lots of money. I often learn a lot. Five new things from every show. So thank you, Roy. Amazing, Roy. Thank you. Yeah. We know we're expensive people to know. Sometimes. But other times, not so bad. Other times, we save you …”“… and analyze what it has seen. So you don't need to be the one managing and massaging the data. Just dump the data at it. Let it do its thing. So, yeah, there you go. Moving on to Roy. We shall. Yeah, so Roy writes in. He says, I need a QR code to direct folks to a website to register for a training course. I'd previously done this on a website, but that was a bit of a pain. On a whim, I asked ChatGPT if it would generate an image of a QR code linked to that URL. It created one that worked perfectly. I pasted it into the newsletter. Easy peasy. Roy, P.S. Love the show. Never miss it. Though on occasion, it costs me money. Lots of money. I often learn a lot. Five new things from every show. So thank you, Roy. Amazing, Roy. Thank you. Yeah. We know we're expensive people to know. Sometimes. But other times, not so bad. Other times, we save you money. We try. Like the previous one where you can not pay two subscriptions for the same app. Exactly. That's right. Yeah, that's right. So there's that.”View more
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Roy discovered that ChatGPT can generate QR codes linked to websites, making it easier to direct people to register for a training course. Instead of using a complicated website, he simply asked ChatGPT, and it produced a working QR code that he included in his newsletter. This quick tip can save time and simplify the process for anyone needing QR codes.
Mac Geek Gab·Why Your AI App Matters, What’s Draining Your iPad & How TSA Digital ID Works – Mac Geek Gab 1137·Apr 13, 2026
“… now I truly understand how it's going to change everything for us. How AI is changing the workforce, why most people are using tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely and correctly, how to build systems that do hours of work in just minutes, and what skills you need right now to stay relevant, to keep your jobs or your companies alive. This is not a theoretical episode today. This is stuff that you can actually use and apply today. In my opinion, this is mandatory listening for anybody who wants to be successful this year and for the years to come because AI has taken over and you need to learn …”“… and I literally built an app in just 15 minutes and I have zero coding experience. I never thought anything like this could be possible. And my mind has not been the same since. I've been obsessed with AI and learning AI as fast as I can because now I truly understand how it's going to change everything for us. How AI is changing the workforce, why most people are using tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely and correctly, how to build systems that do hours of work in just minutes, and what skills you need right now to stay relevant, to keep your jobs or your companies alive. This is not a theoretical episode today. This is stuff that you can actually use and apply today. In my opinion, this is mandatory listening for anybody who wants to be successful this year and for the years to come because AI has taken over and you need to learn how to use it effectively. Without further delay, Joshua, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. Thank you very much. I'm so excited for this conversation. You know, I went to your Mindstoned AI Breakthrough Weekend recently, and my mind was absolutely blown from everything I learned And so I thought I have to bring Joshua on to just unpack …”View more
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AI is revolutionizing the workforce, and those who embrace it will thrive while those who ignore it risk obsolescence.
AI is transforming the job market, and those who embrace it will thrive while those who ignore it will be left behind.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)·Joshua Wöhle: Turn AI Into Your Competitive Advantage and 50X Your Productivity | Artificial Intelligence | E393·Apr 06, 2026
“… way either in security or data controls where you can download the data, like download all your previous chats. Corey, do you know where that is on ChatGPT? Because I saw a question about this. Oh, where you would download your archive. It'd be in your settings. Yeah, I did this recently. It might even be in data controls. That's what I was thinking, but I don't think we have access to that on it. Oh, well. Archived. You have none archived. I don't think that because that just like there was a way to do it Yeah I don I don know if it possible on on the team account or perhaps ChatTBT changed it …”“… the blank form. Here's a good one. And I said, go check this site. Fill out that form. And it, you know, does the thing. I think there's a way. This is a team account, so maybe you can't do it on a team account. or maybe you can. There should be a way either in security or data controls where you can download the data, like download all your previous chats. Corey, do you know where that is on ChatGPT? Because I saw a question about this. Oh, where you would download your archive. It'd be in your settings. Yeah, I did this recently. It might even be in data controls. That's what I was thinking, but I don't think we have access to that on it. Oh, well. Archived. You have none archived. I don't think that because that just like there was a way to do it Yeah I don I don know if it possible on on the team account or perhaps ChatTBT changed it because a lot of people are switching to cloud yeah we are on the business account too that the other thing uh so ours is a little different than yours will look but yeah that for prompting you know you can get more specific with it if you want but really the main thing you need to internalize is this you need to give it a task and i would probably …”View more
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To unlock the full potential of AI tools like ChatGPT, you need to provide clear tasks, context, and formats. By doing this, you can significantly improve the quality of the output, transforming your AI interactions from simple queries to powerful collaborations. This approach can revolutionize how you create and manage projects, making AI an indispensable part of your workflow.
The Neuron: AI Explained·How We Would Teach AI From Scratch in 2026·Apr 03, 2026
“… with traditional entertainment, we do have a lot more transparency in those areas. And I think as people are increasingly using these like weird ChatGPT like plugin type tools, like the one that everybody's using object talk. It's just a customized version of ChatGPT. So they're taking open AIs, LLM and like kind of customizing it a little bit. And that seems to be how a lot of people are creating AI slop. And not only is there no visibility into open AIs, LLM, but there's no visibility into these like weird customized versions of it. I mean, I just want to know, like, you know, the fact that …”“… comparison to like Greek, like tragedies and stuff. Like I do. It is kind of just funny how we keep reinventing these things. That said, I do kind of wonder who's influencing these storylines, like who's writing them, like how is the AI shaping it? Like with traditional entertainment, we do have a lot more transparency in those areas. And I think as people are increasingly using these like weird ChatGPT like plugin type tools, like the one that everybody's using object talk. It's just a customized version of ChatGPT. So they're taking open AIs, LLM and like kind of customizing it a little bit. And that seems to be how a lot of people are creating AI slop. And not only is there no visibility into open AIs, LLM, but there's no visibility into these like weird customized versions of it. I mean, I just want to know, like, you know, the fact that they are all devolving into violence against women, like, is that something that was coded into, you know, object talks like output or whatever. Obviously it's performing well as well, but I wonder what else would perform well. And like, just like the tech that's shaping these storylines, because the tech is writing these storylines. AI is writing …”View more
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AI-generated content is evolving into complex narratives reminiscent of Greek tragedies, but with a dark twist. As creators use tools like ChatGPT to craft these stories, they often devolve into themes of violence and betrayal, raising questions about the biases embedded in AI. This lack of transparency could lead to troubling societal implications as these narratives gain traction.
Taylor Lorenz’s Power User·AI Fruit Slop Is The New Greek Mythology w/ Kyle Chayka·Apr 01, 2026
“And there's been a lot of strategy change. Open AI, some people are saying, is crashing out in panic mode. Obviously they own the consumer with ChatGPT They are the verb like taking an Uber or Googling something People consumers always just say hey did you check ChatGPT But but obviously other large language models are catching up here let me say something to that jason because like sure you mentor tons of startups sax has done it freeberg has done it i do it what is the one thing we tell folks focus focus focus focus 100 do one maybe one and a half things but do it incredibly, incredibly …”“And there's been a lot of strategy change. Open AI, some people are saying, is crashing out in panic mode. Obviously they own the consumer with ChatGPT They are the verb like taking an Uber or Googling something People consumers always just say hey did you check ChatGPT But but obviously other large language models are catching up here let me say something to that jason because like sure you mentor tons of startups sax has done it freeberg has done it i do it what is the one thing we tell folks focus focus focus focus 100 do one maybe one and a half things but do it incredibly, incredibly well. And everything else, you start to bleed and smear. What was that Brad Garlinghouse term? Peanut butter. Yeah, you smear the peanut butter too far out. And so this is a good moment, by the way, if either of these two companies are in the smearing phase to recalibrate and reset because you just can't do everything. Speaking of smears, I couldn't …”View more
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OpenAI, the leader in consumer AI with ChatGPT, is reportedly in panic mode as competition heats up. With other large language models catching up, experts warn that spreading resources too thin could lead to failure. This moment presents a crucial opportunity for OpenAI to recalibrate its focus and strategy amidst rising pressures and political maneuvering from competitors like Anthropic.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg·Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Lawsuits·Mar 27, 2026
“… landscapes, that's where the kind of photorealistic pass really makes a big difference. And last up, we have an update on OpenAI's plan to launch ChatGPT's adult mode. This has been announced, I think, last year, as I think they are thinking of doing. It has been delayed from the original late March target, and it seems that they're still aiming to do it. The news here has been that the team within OpenAI, their advisory council of psychology and neuroscience, have opposed it at a January meeting. One advisor really warned about it significantly. So anyway, we have a quick update saying that …”“… So this is dealing with new games, right? And more complex. You wouldn't run this on your phone, like for casual games, but for games that have complex character models with faces and stuff like that, or like open world games where you traverse big landscapes, that's where the kind of photorealistic pass really makes a big difference. And last up, we have an update on OpenAI's plan to launch ChatGPT's adult mode. This has been announced, I think, last year, as I think they are thinking of doing. It has been delayed from the original late March target, and it seems that they're still aiming to do it. The news here has been that the team within OpenAI, their advisory council of psychology and neuroscience, have opposed it at a January meeting. One advisor really warned about it significantly. So anyway, we have a quick update saying that they appear to still be planning on it. It has been delayed, but as of now, it's still going to be presumably released. Yeah. Wow. What a surprise that despite objections over the appropriateness of a tool like this, that they still went ahead. Huh? That's weird. That's not my company at all. Yeah, that's weird. What a weird thing. Yeah, I know. This …”View more
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OpenAI's plan to launch ChatGPT's adult mode has faced significant opposition from their advisory council, yet the company still intends to proceed. This decision raises ethical concerns about the impact of AI-driven adult content, with warnings about potential risks likened to historical issues faced by the tobacco industry. As OpenAI navigates this uncharted territory, the need for transparent research on its effects becomes crucial.
Last Week in AI·#238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals·Mar 26, 2026
“… researching the story that I documented it. Very timely time to start working in artificial intelligence. For anyone that doesn know this is pre ChatGPT launch moment that shook the world But in writing this book you interviewed a lot of people and went to a lot of places Can you give me a flavor of how many people you interviewed where it taken you around the world, etc? I interviewed over 250 people, so over 300 interviews. Over 90 of those people were former or current OpenAI employees and executives. So the book covers the inside story of OpenAI's first decade and how it ultimately got to …”“… around the world. And so that is kind of how I then set off on this journey of ultimately writing a book. I didn't realize that I was working towards writing a book, but starting in 2018 when I took that job was essentially the moment in which I began researching the story that I documented it. Very timely time to start working in artificial intelligence. For anyone that doesn know this is pre ChatGPT launch moment that shook the world But in writing this book you interviewed a lot of people and went to a lot of places Can you give me a flavor of how many people you interviewed where it taken you around the world, etc? I interviewed over 250 people, so over 300 interviews. Over 90 of those people were former or current OpenAI employees and executives. So the book covers the inside story of OpenAI's first decade and how it ultimately got to where it is today. But I didn't want to write a corporate book. I felt very strongly that in order to help people understand the impact of the industry, we would also have to travel well beyond Silicon Valley.”View more
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Karen Hao's journey from mechanical engineering at MIT to investigative journalism reveals a pivotal moment in Silicon Valley's profit-driven tech culture. After witnessing a startup's CEO fired for lack of profit, she questioned the industry's focus on profitable technologies over public benefit, leading her to explore AI's impact through over 300 interviews, including 90 with OpenAI insiders. This journey culminated in her book, 'Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares,' which aims to reimagine innovation for the broader public good.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett·AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!·Mar 26, 2026
“… tech industry, and they were saying the same lines like, AI is evil, it's going to watch us, it's using all the water. And then they were like, but ChatGPT really helps me and it has great answers. And so I think part of it is a timing thing of we just need these products to kind of saturate the mainstream consumer and they can realize the value. There's a lot of things in there. A lot of ideas there, huh?”“… in the U.S. more broadly, these kind of very catchy statements about things like AI uses so much water that have kind of made people really concerned about leaning in on the technology. I was just talking with someone this morning who was not in the tech industry, and they were saying the same lines like, AI is evil, it's going to watch us, it's using all the water. And then they were like, but ChatGPT really helps me and it has great answers. And so I think part of it is a timing thing of we just need these products to kind of saturate the mainstream consumer and they can realize the value. There's a lot of things in there. A lot of ideas there, huh?”View more
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Despite fears that AI is harmful, many consumers find it incredibly useful. Olivia Moore from Andreessen Horowitz highlights the disconnect between negative media portrayals and the positive experiences users have with AI tools like ChatGPT. This contradiction may suggest that as AI becomes more mainstream, consumer acceptance will grow.
The Vergecast·Why people really hate AI·Mar 20, 2026
“… monetization of via ads versus subscriptions. so Neil Patel who is the founder of NP Digital a New York Times best-selling offer shared this is how ChatGPT ads he's like the SEO guy I think he said the data is only from five businesses but these businesses also run Google and Meta ads compared to Meta ChatGPT's lead quality is 256% higher on the flip side lead quality is 49% lower than Google. I mean, that seems like a miracle to be in between two hyperscalers on day one, basically. But on the bright side, due to ad costs, it's substantially cheaper from a CPA perspective than Meta. And this was …”“… right? That's what a home run looks like. And so I think it makes sense for X, but it certainly is not a home run from a consumer application standpoint and they still need the overall business. Yeah, Olivia Moore had some extra context there around monetization of via ads versus subscriptions. so Neil Patel who is the founder of NP Digital a New York Times best-selling offer shared this is how ChatGPT ads he's like the SEO guy I think he said the data is only from five businesses but these businesses also run Google and Meta ads compared to Meta ChatGPT's lead quality is 256% higher on the flip side lead quality is 49% lower than Google. I mean, that seems like a miracle to be in between two hyperscalers on day one, basically. But on the bright side, due to ad costs, it's substantially cheaper from a CPA perspective than Meta. And this was sort of what we were talking to the good folks over at Ridge about, was that at least in the early days, like being early to a new ad platform that you can potentially scale on can drive a bunch of new conversions. But Olivia Moore said, a big story that most people are missing in the AI race for the consumer, Chet GPT versus Claude is ads Right now …”View more
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In the race for ad revenue, ChatGPT ads show a staggering 256% higher lead quality compared to Meta, while being significantly cheaper per acquisition. This trend highlights a potential shift in advertising effectiveness, especially as consumer AI platforms evolve and monetize more users through ads rather than subscriptions. With Google earning $460 per user annually from ads, the implications for ChatGPT's ad strategy could redefine the landscape.
TBPN·Samsung Invests $70B in AI Chips, The Cubanator Joins, Apple: Behind in AI, Ahead in Revenue | Mark Cuban, John Kim, Eugen Alpeza, Ari Herbert-Voss, Alex Konrad, Carl Eschenbach & Pat Grady, Jim Cantrell, Tom Hulme·Mar 19, 2026
“… Yeah, if I were to like zoom out and distill what he's trying to do with this company, what Claude Code did to automating software engineering, what ChatGPT did to replacing a bunch of high schoolers able to write like PhD level essays, science, automating mathematics, he's doing for the physical world. So if you think of like mining as a technological stack, he is doing the sensors. He is doing the compute on top of that. He's operating the machinery, which is powered by the AI models that sit on top of this. So if you could automate all of that, then you can think about automated factories that …”“… And Travis argued that not enough people are taking this seriously and not enough people are trying to be complementary to that. You don't have to fight this force. You could actually just be a contributor to the success and win as a result. Yeah, if I were to like zoom out and distill what he's trying to do with this company, what Claude Code did to automating software engineering, what ChatGPT did to replacing a bunch of high schoolers able to write like PhD level essays, science, automating mathematics, he's doing for the physical world. So if you think of like mining as a technological stack, he is doing the sensors. He is doing the compute on top of that. He's operating the machinery, which is powered by the AI models that sit on top of this. So if you could automate all of that, then you can think about automated factories that sit on top of that. And then the produce that comes on top of that also being automated. And so if you could scale that, not necessarily at the speed of software, but automated by AI, that's something pretty cool that we haven't seen in the world today because we're constrained by humans, by our biological brains, by making errors, by needing to …”View more
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Travis Kalanick's new venture, Atoms, aims to revolutionize physical goods movement by automating the entire production process, similar to how Tesla transformed the automotive industry. He believes that by integrating AI and robotics into manufacturing, he can create a world-changing company that complements existing giants rather than competing against them. This ambitious plan could redefine how we think about automation in our daily lives.
Limitless Podcast·The Rise and Fall of Travis Kalanick... And His Return With Atoms·Mar 19, 2026
“… drive you crazy. So instead of writing the PRD myself from scratch, I let the AI interview me. I pasted my core idea along with the visuals into ChatGPT and then asked it to ask me questions so that I could answer them one by one. The prompt I used was, ask me questions to help you put together a brief PRD for the following web game. I want to create a mini game that takes all the podcast episodes from Lenny's podcast, generates questions from each episode, and make it like a Pokemon RPG game with similar visuals. What I am expecting is, for example, you found Elena in the wild, and you can …”“the PRD makes sure everything the AI generates stays true to what you're actually trying to build. That's why I always invest time here. That said, writing PRDs can sometimes drive you crazy. So instead of writing the PRD myself from scratch, I let the AI interview me. I pasted my core idea along with the visuals into ChatGPT and then asked it to ask me questions so that I could answer them one by one. The prompt I used was, ask me questions to help you put together a brief PRD for the following web game. I want to create a mini game that takes all the podcast episodes from Lenny's podcast, generates questions from each episode, and make it like a Pokemon RPG game with similar visuals. What I am expecting is, for example, you found Elena in the wild, and you can compete with Elena on product questions. You get five questions, and you lose hit points when you lose the answer and so forth. We can randomly pick 50 guests from the podcast and get challenged. The entire theme and design of the game needs to be very Pokemon RPG style in the old day. With the prompt, ChatGPT came back with 17 questions. I moved them …”View more
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Using AI to draft my game’s PRD revolutionized my development workflow. By letting ChatGPT interview me, I clarified my concept for a Pokémon-style RPG based on podcast trivia, which ultimately led to a faster proof of concept. However, I soon faced challenges when the initial framework couldn't support my quiz-based battles, forcing me to pivot my approach.
“… really weird is taking over me. When you told me you wanted to interview me for your book, my first reaction was, I have to get the answer from ChatGPT. I am using AI to represent me on every email, on every message, on every text. And it made me, when my first reaction was, I can't answer you without ChatGPT, it made me think, where am I? I am making myself dumber. So this is going to be really a powerful, powerful trend because we're trusting AI more. We're offloading more responsibility to AI. And what happened, and we're seeing this in the universities, right? We're seeing this. Look, if …”“… said, I use AI every hour of the day. I use AI for everything. I said, you know, I would like to have this Gen Z perspective of how you're using AI. I want to interview you for my book. So I called her on the phone the next week, and she said, something really weird is taking over me. When you told me you wanted to interview me for your book, my first reaction was, I have to get the answer from ChatGPT. I am using AI to represent me on every email, on every message, on every text. And it made me, when my first reaction was, I can't answer you without ChatGPT, it made me think, where am I? I am making myself dumber. So this is going to be really a powerful, powerful trend because we're trusting AI more. We're offloading more responsibility to AI. And what happened, and we're seeing this in the universities, right? We're seeing this. Look, if you're trying to hire people, do you really know who you're getting out of a university right now? Are they learning anything or are they just using AI? to get the quick answers. Humans tend to want the shortcut. They don't want to do the hard work. But here's what happens. I could have used AI to write my book. Lots of people are doing that. But if …”View more
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A college student revealed that her first instinct was to consult ChatGPT for answers, highlighting a troubling trend of cognitive offloading to AI. This reliance raises questions about whether students are truly learning or just taking shortcuts. The speaker argues that while AI can assist, it may lead to a form of 'self-imposed dementia' as we lose the ability to think independently.
The Vault Unlocked·How AI Is Rewiring Your Customers (And Why Most Businesses Aren't Ready)·Mar 18, 2026
“… of last year, called I'm Disappointed in the AI Discourse. During that time, there was this big thing where essentially I was playing around with ChatGPT for the first time, and I asked it a question, and it was like, searching the web, and it showed me all the websites it searched and stuff. And then I'd switch over to Blue Sky, and I see a post that's like, ChatGPT cannot literally search the web. It is not a search engine. Stop calling it a search engine. And that kind of disparity, maybe that's a formative moment, But it also, I think, exemplifies the way that we have been talking about …”“… sort of almost like I have my own sort of thoughts about where stuff is going and whatever else. But when I read things, a lot of the stress of this past year and what led to my writing was me being like, I wrote a post almost a year ago, it was in May of last year, called I'm Disappointed in the AI Discourse. During that time, there was this big thing where essentially I was playing around with ChatGPT for the first time, and I asked it a question, and it was like, searching the web, and it showed me all the websites it searched and stuff. And then I'd switch over to Blue Sky, and I see a post that's like, ChatGPT cannot literally search the web. It is not a search engine. Stop calling it a search engine. And that kind of disparity, maybe that's a formative moment, But it also, I think, exemplifies the way that we have been talking about these tools is that there's like a disagreement about the facts. And you can't I feel like you can't really get to a higher level amount of discussion or like come to any sort of consensus or building things without like understanding what the facts are. And so I've spent this last year maybe in a sort of Pyrrhic kind of way, trying to be like, can we …”View more
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After initially dismissing AI as a gimmick, software engineer Steve Klabnik found his perspective shifting when he introduced ChatGPT to his mom's boyfriend, a coal tar manager with no programming background. This encounter opened his eyes to the potential of AI beyond the echo chamber of negativity he was surrounded by, highlighting the importance of diverse viewpoints in understanding technology's impact.
Practical AI·Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding·Mar 17, 2026
“… this is direction that a lot of the leading A.I. researchers or A.I. thinkers are moving toward. They're moving away from large language models like ChatGPT and Claude and saying this is the real future of AI is using AI to help robots or other industrial processes operate in physical space. So Fei Fei Li, who's one of the top of the AI game, she has a startup called World Labs. Former meta AI chief Yan Le Kun has a new company that builds world models. Jeff Bezos started another company called Project Prometheus, which is focused on bringing AI to physical tasks, including robotics, drug design …”“… the original use case. But then what they found that what they called a Cambrian explosion in robotics and pivoted the data set to work with these delivery companies like Coco Robotics. But we should talk about like world models in general, because this is direction that a lot of the leading A.I. researchers or A.I. thinkers are moving toward. They're moving away from large language models like ChatGPT and Claude and saying this is the real future of AI is using AI to help robots or other industrial processes operate in physical space. So Fei Fei Li, who's one of the top of the AI game, she has a startup called World Labs. Former meta AI chief Yan Le Kun has a new company that builds world models. Jeff Bezos started another company called Project Prometheus, which is focused on bringing AI to physical tasks, including robotics, drug design and scientific discovery. So this is maybe the canary in the coal mine. Most people were seeing this story and going, oh, did Pokemon Go players know that their data was going to be used for this? They didn't know it was going to be used to feed into robotics, but they did know that their data was going to be used for something. So a lot I was …”View more
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Your Pokémon Go adventures are secretly training delivery robots! Niantic Spatial, the AI company behind Pokémon Go, is using data from players to create a visual positioning system that helps robots navigate urban environments. This unexpected twist shows how gaming data can solve real-world challenges, particularly in areas where GPS struggles.
Morning Brew Daily·War Puts Dubai’s Dreams in Jeopardy & Billionaires Sour on The Giving Pledge·Mar 17, 2026
“… to do on your own. I like using like AI tools in this way because it helps with a cold start problem. I also have a friend who told me that she uses ChatGPT to give her affirmations that would make her more confident and also help her step into her power as a startup founder. I love that because again, it's specific so that you're getting affirmations that are like specifically for the role that she's in and that she wants to improve in. The same person, but also different topic. She also says, I work with AI to brainstorm creative gifts that I want to make for some of my friends, like someone who …”“… will involve journaling about my day, but will also explore my progress towards hitting self-improvement and personal development goals. Yeah, I like it. It's really specific. It can help you get started on something if it feels really difficult to do on your own. I like using like AI tools in this way because it helps with a cold start problem. I also have a friend who told me that she uses ChatGPT to give her affirmations that would make her more confident and also help her step into her power as a startup founder. I love that because again, it's specific so that you're getting affirmations that are like specifically for the role that she's in and that she wants to improve in. The same person, but also different topic. She also says, I work with AI to brainstorm creative gifts that I want to make for some of my friends, like someone who just got engaged in like the Redwoods or I want to make them some pottery. Like, I think this is a really good and specific example because like gift giving can be really hard, but ChatGPT or any AI tool has like endless ideas of how to make something creative for a person if you just feed it the right information. You're like, my friend just got …”View more
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Using AI can significantly enhance your happiness and productivity, especially when tackling procrastination or journaling. By prompting AI as a life coach or journaling assistant, you can receive tailored strategies and insights that make personal development easier and more enjoyable. These tools not only provide actionable advice but also help you overcome common hurdles in self-improvement.
Tiger Sisters·How to Use AI to Become Healthier, Hotter, & Happier·Mar 16, 2026
“And so then that means that maybe you're not ordering an Uber through ChatGPT, but any other product you can authenticate through and it can borrow your tokens, it can borrow your memory, it can borrow everything that it knows about you from ChatGPT. I think that is probably more of where we're headed versus solely using every app in the ChatGPT interface. I love the idea that like in two three five years onboarding to software should not be a thing Like you should be able to log in with a ChatGPT or a Claude and that …”“And so then that means that maybe you're not ordering an Uber through ChatGPT, but any other product you can authenticate through and it can borrow your tokens, it can borrow your memory, it can borrow everything that it knows about you from ChatGPT. I think that is probably more of where we're headed versus solely using every app in the ChatGPT interface. I love the idea that like in two three five years onboarding to software should not be a thing Like you should be able to log in with a ChatGPT or a Claude and that new software product should know everything about you and like set up perfectly to cater to you And that really exciting On the consumer end is it like ChatGPT? I talked to ChatGPT about my diet and about the food I like to eat. And so I task it like order me dinner and it goes into like DoorDash and it like uses my preferences to pick something. …”View more
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Olivia Moore reveals that some AI models, like Claude, are said to exhibit anxiety-like behaviors before responding. This raises questions about whether these bots truly experience emotions or are simply mimicking human responses to engage users. Interestingly, when tested, ChatGPT declined to participate, suggesting a self-awareness that adds another layer to AI interactions.
The a16z Show·AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore·Mar 16, 2026
“That's great. And maybe tangibly, if you were to point out, how did Code Red change ChatGPT or maybe the ops or how the team operates? The thing I try to get faster with the team is focus. So we're certainly more focused than we were six months ago on the things we really want to nail. And some of those things are very behind the scenes, like latency, reliability, those kind of things. And some of those things are very conservative efforts, like involving ChatGPT into the Super Assistant. So focus is the main lasting artifact. And as …”“That's great. And maybe tangibly, if you were to point out, how did Code Red change ChatGPT or maybe the ops or how the team operates? The thing I try to get faster with the team is focus. So we're certainly more focused than we were six months ago on the things we really want to nail. And some of those things are very behind the scenes, like latency, reliability, those kind of things. And some of those things are very conservative efforts, like involving ChatGPT into the Super Assistant. So focus is the main lasting artifact. And as you imagine, it's hard to stay focused sometimes when there's so much going on in the space, but that's the hard job. You asked me about trade-offs earlier. Getting the team to focus on the things that really matter to users is certainly one of them. That's always worth it. Yeah, you know, in the back of my mind that I asked you that question is …”View more
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Peter's arrival at OpenClaw revolutionizes AI interaction, making it feel more human-like and natural. This shift emphasizes the importance of focus in developing AI tools that truly solve user problems. As OpenAI integrates these insights, the future of AI applications looks promising.
BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley·ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview·Mar 15, 2026
“… a framework around this. So we think about like being being AI proficient in like multiple levels. The bottom level is people who sometimes use ChatGPT. We'll call them the L0. The level one is people who build their custom GPTs, maybe they build a Notion agent, maybe they've used Cloud Code to do some of these things. Level two is people who are actually fairly proficient. They have been able to build an app that automates part of their job. They have been able to commit code or feedback to other people's work. And then level three is like the fundamental systems builders. Okay. And our job …”“And we've kind of like built a framework around this. So we think about like being being AI proficient in like multiple levels. The bottom level is people who sometimes use ChatGPT. We'll call them the L0. The level one is people who build their custom GPTs, maybe they build a Notion agent, maybe they've used Cloud Code to do some of these things. Level two is people who are actually fairly proficient. They have been able to build an app that automates part of their job. They have been able to commit code or feedback to other people's work. And then level three is like the fundamental systems builders. Okay. And our job is to get everyone in the organization up the ladder. And the way we do that is as follows. The people who are still in L0, they will most likely not be at the company. Because the fact is like you can tell them as much as possible. If you're not a self-starter and you don't have that growth mindset, like it's going to be very, very hard to train …”View more
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In a bold move, Ramp's CPO Geoff Charles suggests that employees who can't adapt to AI tools may not have a future at the company. Ramp has created a structured framework to elevate employees' AI proficiency, from casual users to system builders, ensuring everyone can leverage AI for productivity and innovation.
Behind the Craft·Inside Ramp, the $32B Company Where AI Agents Run Everything | Geoff Charles·Mar 15, 2026
“… consumer companies are going to have to change what they are and how they work. Because I think consumers are sitting over here with Claude or with ChatGPT or with Gemini. And they're getting freaking AGI-ish intelligence. And then you go into media service over here and it's dumb as a rock. That's not going to work. It's going to need to get intelligent. So what we've said, what I've said at our latest earnings call is that we're going to build the world's first truly intelligent agentic media system.”“… and breathless takes on Twitter all the time. And there's a lot of dystopian takes. I'm very positive about the future. And I think if we look at the consumer experience, I think it's going to change completely. And not just for Spotify. I think all consumer companies are going to have to change what they are and how they work. Because I think consumers are sitting over here with Claude or with ChatGPT or with Gemini. And they're getting freaking AGI-ish intelligence. And then you go into media service over here and it's dumb as a rock. That's not going to work. It's going to need to get intelligent. So what we've said, what I've said at our latest earnings call is that we're going to build the world's first truly intelligent agentic media system.”View more
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Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary at South by Southwest, where executives are discussing the integration of AI into the platform. They believe that as consumers engage with advanced AI, Spotify must evolve beyond its current limitations to create an intelligent media system. This shift aims to enhance user experience and meet the expectations set by cutting-edge AI technologies.
TBPN·Travis Kalanick Joins, Spotify CEO, Nikesh from Palo Alto Networks, xAI Rebuild, Apple Faces Slop Allegations·Mar 13, 2026
“… spell checker was in Google Docs. And like that was, you know, probably going to be the best tool available. Fast forward to today, though, you got ChatGPT, you got Gemini, you got Claude. There are free versions of these services. If you want a quick grammar check, you can get it. My guess is that's the experience that you just had. Yeah. If I want a grammar check, I'm just copying and pasting into one of the AI models. I'm not using like a purpose-built thing for that, or it's now built into Google Docs. Yeah. And to emphasize a point, when you're using Claude, as you did in your book, you're …”“… And I have other tools. Well, so talk to me about these other tools, because this is what I think the real story is, which is like in 2009, when Grammarly launched, you didn't have a lot of options for writing assistance, right? You had like whatever spell checker was in Google Docs. And like that was, you know, probably going to be the best tool available. Fast forward to today, though, you got ChatGPT, you got Gemini, you got Claude. There are free versions of these services. If you want a quick grammar check, you can get it. My guess is that's the experience that you just had. Yeah. If I want a grammar check, I'm just copying and pasting into one of the AI models. I'm not using like a purpose-built thing for that, or it's now built into Google Docs. Yeah. And to emphasize a point, when you're using Claude, as you did in your book, you're using the latest and greatest version of Claude. If you are using some sort of startup that is like using the API of Anthropic, they're not actually incentivized to give you the frontier model most of the time, right? Because that's going to be very expensive. So they're going to give you a model that's a couple generations old because they can get a …”View more
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Grammarly faces a bleak future as users shift to advanced AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude for writing assistance. With cheaper, more effective alternatives emerging, the value of subscription-based services is being questioned, leading to a potential 'SaaSpocalypse' for outdated software. The landscape of writing assistance is rapidly changing, leaving companies like Grammarly scrambling to adapt.
Hard Fork·A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity·Mar 13, 2026
“… and put together is terrible. But, you know, So I've had that a few times where a customer said, hey, I asked, I want to build X. I'm not picking on ChatGPT, I'm just using it as the example. Hey, I want to build X. I asked ChatGPT what it should look like. Can you build this for me? And what do you think of what ChatGPT says it should look like? So it has created some situations where people are coming to me with preconceptions on what they think the final interface should look like that maybe I wasn't getting before. So it's created an aspect of my job where, like in that situation, I had to …”“… And so he sent it to me and was like want to know, A, is it a viable idea? And my thoughts on the viability of the whole idea. And then also, you know, like, what do I think of this like interface and potential interface of putting on the interface and put together is terrible. But, you know, So I've had that a few times where a customer said, hey, I asked, I want to build X. I'm not picking on ChatGPT, I'm just using it as the example. Hey, I want to build X. I asked ChatGPT what it should look like. Can you build this for me? And what do you think of what ChatGPT says it should look like? So it has created some situations where people are coming to me with preconceptions on what they think the final interface should look like that maybe I wasn't getting before. So it's created an aspect of my job where, like in that situation, I had to explain to the customer, well, you see how with this interface to get from A to B, you got to click like 17 times. That's not a good user experience, right?”View more
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AI-generated content often lacks the personal touch that clients crave, leading to a contrast between lazy developers and those who engage deeply with their clients. A developer shares how AI has changed client interactions, with customers now coming in with preconceptions based on AI suggestions. This shift highlights the importance of human insight in creating effective user experiences.
The freeCodeCamp Podcast·#211 How to Land Freelance Clients with Small Business Whisperer Luke Ciciliano (Developer Interview)·Mar 13, 2026
“A lot of people have actually connected this to the ChatGPT launch, right, when ChatGPT launched. And remember, it was only a couple of months ago that people were saying, we've hit a wall, AI is dead, what are we going to do? So when you hear that quote, what is your first feelings? I mean, I think we pointed to the bleachers and said, this is going to be the agentic year of autonomous productivity. I, in the last month alone, have relied on AI to go from just answer my next step in the process, answer …”“A lot of people have actually connected this to the ChatGPT launch, right, when ChatGPT launched. And remember, it was only a couple of months ago that people were saying, we've hit a wall, AI is dead, what are we going to do? So when you hear that quote, what is your first feelings? I mean, I think we pointed to the bleachers and said, this is going to be the agentic year of autonomous productivity. I, in the last month alone, have relied on AI to go from just answer my next step in the process, answer my next question to, yeah, here's the PRD, go off and build it, and I'll see you in a few hours. So I'm experiencing this in real time. I have my doubts about how quickly the month-long horizon, even the week-long horizon, is going to arrive. I think we will get there. but it's only going to take one let's say five-day horizon task that goes wrong …”View more
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As AI tools like ChatGPT transform software development, experts warn of potential pitfalls. While many are excited about AI's ability to autonomously create projects, there's a looming fear that a single mistake could lead to significant setbacks, causing users to question their reliability. This tension highlights the balancing act between embracing innovation and managing risk in the tech world.
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends·AIForHumansRecursiveSelfLearningOpenAI·Mar 13, 2026
“… And I think that everybody kind of understands the governor of Florida and kind of what happens in Florida. But this AG is going after OpenAI and ChatGPT directly because there have been a number of stories that have connected ChatGPT and OpenAI to bad things happening in the world, which I think is totally fair. Kev, maybe we should hear a little bit about what this attorney general is saying and then jump into the discussion about this. yeah and for those who hate clips i'll just say it's that chat gpd does not have enough barbed wire tattoos it hasn't been slamming enough monster energy and …”“… of inform some of what we're going to talk about today because I think we have to start with a pretty stark video that came out from the attorney general of Florida. Now, Florida is a state. It is a state. And it has a particular right wing backing. And I think that everybody kind of understands the governor of Florida and kind of what happens in Florida. But this AG is going after OpenAI and ChatGPT directly because there have been a number of stories that have connected ChatGPT and OpenAI to bad things happening in the world, which I think is totally fair. Kev, maybe we should hear a little bit about what this attorney general is saying and then jump into the discussion about this. yeah and for those who hate clips i'll just say it's that chat gpd does not have enough barbed wire tattoos it hasn't been slamming enough monster energy and fago or living in a key west with their top off we've just insulted all of florida kevin so i'm sorry florida viewers but oh let me be clear mine weren't insults that's that's the reason i'm planning to move i'm gonna redomesticate fair enough all right here we go here's attorney general james Uthmeyer? I'm Attorney General James Uthmeyer. Ah, I was …”View more
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Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeyer has launched an investigation into OpenAI, citing concerns about AI's potential misuse and its impact on public safety. This move reflects growing anti-AI sentiment, as fears mount over powerful AI technologies falling into the wrong hands. The investigation aims to implement protections for children and address these pressing issues.
AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends·Everyone Hates AI. Now What?·Apr 10, 2026
“… not just a big shift in the way in which we do business, but it's also a speed of change. Even the PC took about 20 years to reach mass adoption. ChatGPT took 10 months. When you combine the two of them, it just makes it compelling for everybody to get on the bandwagon as soon as possible. What's your perspective here? You guys go to all the conferences, right? Yeah, people think too much about AI being only an automation tool. And I think it's so much more. Maybe we'll tap that. We do as well. But we see, even though we say AI coaching, it's so much more than just coaching. Like suddenly it …”“… grounded in that for a lot of organizations. They don't want to get left behind. Is that what it is? Yeah, but there's also a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Probably even Bill Gates said, this is bigger than the PC, for example, because it's not just a big shift in the way in which we do business, but it's also a speed of change. Even the PC took about 20 years to reach mass adoption. ChatGPT took 10 months. When you combine the two of them, it just makes it compelling for everybody to get on the bandwagon as soon as possible. What's your perspective here? You guys go to all the conferences, right? Yeah, people think too much about AI being only an automation tool. And I think it's so much more. Maybe we'll tap that. We do as well. But we see, even though we say AI coaching, it's so much more than just coaching. Like suddenly it becomes a completely different tool that we've never had before that can also guide whole strategy. Because suddenly, besides just coaching people, you can also collect data about what are the biggest topics that they are talking about. And what's behind those topics, what's the root causes. And then you can combine all that, aggregate that and look …”View more
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AI coaching is transforming how we connect by providing a judgment-free space for reflection, allowing individuals to unlock authenticity they often hide from others. Users report feeling more comfortable with AI coaches than human ones, highlighting the unique empathetic support AI offers. This innovation isn't about replacing humans but enhancing our ability to engage with one another meaningfully.
Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice·Adapt or Get Left Behind: The New Rules of AI & Business·Mar 27, 2026
“… So now it gets more interesting because he whines about, well, this could be damaging to the brand, blah, blah, blah. there's a movement to delete ChatGPT. Anthropic goes to the top of the downloads. And the Google Play Store also. It is skyrocketed as the number one app in the world, passing ChatGPT, which had been the number one app in the world for three years. Anecdotally, as listeners of this podcast will know, but Jason, for context, I'm in a lot of subreddits for all the various models and LLMs. I want to hear a report. And I really enjoy being in the OpenAI ones, in part because up until …”“… to be a two-faced, traitorous ass-kisser to the government. I mean, is this surprising to anybody? No. Not to oversimplify this, but is this not the sort of behavior that led to Sam Altman's original ouster from OpenAI? Exactly. So now what happens? So now it gets more interesting because he whines about, well, this could be damaging to the brand, blah, blah, blah. there's a movement to delete ChatGPT. Anthropic goes to the top of the downloads. And the Google Play Store also. It is skyrocketed as the number one app in the world, passing ChatGPT, which had been the number one app in the world for three years. Anecdotally, as listeners of this podcast will know, but Jason, for context, I'm in a lot of subreddits for all the various models and LLMs. I want to hear a report. And I really enjoy being in the OpenAI ones, in part because up until recently, my main source of joy was whenever OpenAI would depreciate a model, people would freak out because they were going to lose their girlfriend. Now all of those people are aggressively organizing to switch to Android. They're angry. There have been hundreds and hundreds of posts. Paris, let me understand. These were adamant ChatGPT fans. …”View more
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Sam Altman's recent actions have sparked a massive shift as loyal ChatGPT users abandon the platform for Anthropic's Claude, making it the top app worldwide. This backlash stems from Altman's perceived opportunism and betrayal, raising questions about the long-term impact on OpenAI's brand. The once-dedicated ChatGPT community is now expressing their discontent, fueling a movement to delete the app altogether.
Intelligent Machines (Audio)·IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1·Mar 04, 2026
“… GPU cores. This optimization reportedly increased token generation speeds by over 20%. For high-stakes reasoning, the GPT 5.5 thinking mode in ChatGPT provides smarter, more concise answers by allowing the model more internal compute time to verify its own assumptions before responding. The market for leading US-made frontier models has become an increasingly tight race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Literally a week ago to date, OpenAI rival Anthropic released Opus 4.7, its most powerful generally available model to the public, taking over the leaderboard in terms of the number of …”“… level of intelligence. This was achieved through a deep hardware-software co-design. OpenAI served GPT 5.5 on NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 and VL72 systems utilizing custom heuristic algorithms written by the AI itself to partition and balance work across GPU cores. This optimization reportedly increased token generation speeds by over 20%. For high-stakes reasoning, the GPT 5.5 thinking mode in ChatGPT provides smarter, more concise answers by allowing the model more internal compute time to verify its own assumptions before responding. The market for leading US-made frontier models has become an increasingly tight race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Literally a week ago to date, OpenAI rival Anthropic released Opus 4.7, its most powerful generally available model to the public, taking over the leaderboard in terms of the number of third-party benchmark tests in which it has the lead. Yet today, GPT 5.5 has surpassed it, and even Anthropic's heavily restricted, more powerful model Claude Mythos preview, albeit only on one benchmark, Terminal Bench 2.0, which tests a model's ability to navigate and complete tasks in a sandboxed terminal environment.”View more
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GPT-5.5 is a fundamental redesign that enhances coding and professional software interactions, offering more intuitive use and efficiency without human intervention.
GPT-5.5 represents a fundamental redesign in AI, offering more intuitive use and efficiency, positioning OpenAI ahead in the competitive AI landscape.
Tech Brew Ride Home·All The Headlines, All The Model Drops...·Apr 24, 2026
“… 2025 marks a significant strategic shift for the AI company Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he had reservations about integrating ads into ChatGPT Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me he said at a fireside chat at Harvard University two years ago. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us as a business model. He was concerned about losing user trust if people suspected that advertisers were influencing the chatbot's responses. OpenAI has said that ads wouldn't affect the chatbot's answers, and user conversations wouldn't be sold to advertisers. Fiji Simo, who leads …”“… this year, the company began testing advertising on its popular free chat GPT chatbot and the product's less expensive subscription tier. Entering the digital ad market where a meta is a juggernaut that generated nearly billion in ad revenue in 2025 marks a significant strategic shift for the AI company Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he had reservations about integrating ads into ChatGPT Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me he said at a fireside chat at Harvard University two years ago. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us as a business model. He was concerned about losing user trust if people suspected that advertisers were influencing the chatbot's responses. OpenAI has said that ads wouldn't affect the chatbot's answers, and user conversations wouldn't be sold to advertisers. Fiji Simo, who leads OpenAI's product and business teams as CEO of applications, previously spent about a decade at Meta's Facebook. Although the modern advertising business is heavily reliant on algorithms and automated systems for the bulk of ad buying and selling, personal relationships remain a significant factor influencing where brands ultimately spend their …”View more
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OpenAI has hired ad executive Dave Dugan from Meta to lead its ad sales, marking a significant shift as the company seeks new revenue streams amid massive funding needs. This strategic move comes despite CEO Sam Altman's previous hesitations about integrating ads into ChatGPT due to potential trust issues with users. With Dugan's expertise, OpenAI aims to navigate the competitive digital ad market dominated by Meta.
Tech Brew Ride Home·Zuck’s Personal AI Agent·Mar 23, 2026
“… Artificial intelligence is here. It's in your pocket. It's on your iPhone, your laptop. It's everywhere right now. Go to Claude, go to ChatGPT, go to Gemini, and just start talking with it and share your situation. And again, this is AI telling you stuff. So I took it, I screenshot it, and I sent it to my CPA and said, hey, is this legit? Right? So that's what we need to do with it. Don't just go do it without figuring out if it's legit or not. All of the resources are available to you right now. It's never been easier to try and optimize and do everything you can to ensure that you …”“… with solo 401k contributions, QBI deductions, putting Ireland on salary, we get married, like all this stuff, right? Like it came up with a bunch of different ideas. So if you don't or can't afford a CPA or a tax professional, a tax strategist, congratulations. Artificial intelligence is here. It's in your pocket. It's on your iPhone, your laptop. It's everywhere right now. Go to Claude, go to ChatGPT, go to Gemini, and just start talking with it and share your situation. And again, this is AI telling you stuff. So I took it, I screenshot it, and I sent it to my CPA and said, hey, is this legit? Right? So that's what we need to do with it. Don't just go do it without figuring out if it's legit or not. All of the resources are available to you right now. It's never been easier to try and optimize and do everything you can to ensure that you are doing attack stuff as effectively as possible. What an incredible episode. I feel like I could run through a wall right now because I just love putting together episodes like this where it can change the lives in the future finances of tens and tens of thousands of people that follow this podcast. So what an incredible episode. But let's get …”View more
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing tax optimization, making it easier than ever for individuals to navigate their finances. By using tools like ChatGPT or Claude, you can brainstorm strategies and validate them with a CPA. This is a game-changer for those who can't afford a tax professional, empowering you to take control of your tax situation.
“ChatGPT Health, OpenAI's new health-focused chatbot, frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine. Previous research has shown that ChatGPT can pass medical exams and nearly two-thirds of physicians reported using some form of AI in 2024. But other research has shown that chatbots, including ChatGPT, don't provide reliable medical advice. ChatGPT Health is …”“ChatGPT Health, OpenAI's new health-focused chatbot, frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine. Previous research has shown that ChatGPT can pass medical exams and nearly two-thirds of physicians reported using some form of AI in 2024. But other research has shown that chatbots, including ChatGPT, don't provide reliable medical advice. ChatGPT Health is separate from OpenAI's general ChatGPT chatbot. The program is free, but users must sign up specifically to use the program, which currently has a waitlist to join. OpenAI says ChatGPT Health uses a more secure platform so users can safely upload personal medical information. In the study, the researchers fed 60 medical scenarios to ChatGPT Health. The …”View more
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A recent study reveals that OpenAI's ChatGPT Health underestimated 51.6% of medical emergencies, advising patients to delay urgent care. Despite passing medical exams and being used by many physicians, its recommendations can be dangerously misleading. This raises serious concerns about the reliability of AI in critical health situations.
“And of course, they're going from ChatGPT 3 or 4 to now at 5.2. And it went from barely being able to finish a sentence with ChatGPT 2, like finish a paragraph and do like a coherent text, to GPT-3 could write full essays, to GPT-4 can pass the, you know, the bar exam or the MCATs to GPT 5.2, I believe was used to get a gold in the math Olympiad. Meta's Hyperion AI data center will sprawl to four times the size of Manhattan Central Park. And there are quotes from people like inside of …”“And of course, they're going from ChatGPT 3 or 4 to now at 5.2. And it went from barely being able to finish a sentence with ChatGPT 2, like finish a paragraph and do like a coherent text, to GPT-3 could write full essays, to GPT-4 can pass the, you know, the bar exam or the MCATs to GPT 5.2, I believe was used to get a gold in the math Olympiad. Meta's Hyperion AI data center will sprawl to four times the size of Manhattan Central Park. And there are quotes from people like inside of OpenAI who believe that they're not just building this like narrow technology that's a helpful blinking cursor. They want to build artificial general intelligence. And so what that means is being able to do that everything that a human mind can do. And the joke inside the company is like, we're going to cover the world in data centers and solar …”View more
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Are we on the brink of disaster with AI? Tristan Harris discusses how rapidly evolving AI technologies, like ChatGPT, are approaching human-level cognitive abilities and even surpassing them in strategic tasks. As companies like OpenAI aim to create artificial general intelligence, the potential implications for society and the economy are staggering and raise urgent ethical questions.
Modern Wisdom·#1079 - Tristan Harris - AI Expert Warns: “This Is The Last Mistake We’ll Ever Make”·Apr 02, 2026
“that ChatGPT is just one-shotted in one is incredible. You see that, speaking of Polymarket, polymarket took down the will a nuclear war breakout this year betting market because there was way too much trading volume happening around what's going on in iran oh wow what is polymarket uh you don't be on x he just discovered i just discovered x george i'm 14 years i'm 68 i don't know i don't know what polymarket is uh do you want to describe it sean i don't …”“that ChatGPT is just one-shotted in one is incredible. You see that, speaking of Polymarket, polymarket took down the will a nuclear war breakout this year betting market because there was way too much trading volume happening around what's going on in iran oh wow what is polymarket uh you don't be on x he just discovered i just discovered x george i'm 14 years i'm 68 i don't know i don't know what polymarket is uh do you want to describe it sean i don't even know how to fucking say what it is yeah it's basically a casino for everything so you can go bet on anything. That sounds dangerous. They call it a prediction market. It's kind of like the AOLI versus mayonnaise situation. So it's like, oh, sports betting, not legal. Poly market betting on a sport event, legal somehow. And so basically you can …”View more
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Polymarket, a prediction market platform, has gained attention for allowing users to bet on various outcomes, from sports to political events. Recently, it faced scrutiny when it had to shut down a betting market on a potential nuclear war due to overwhelming trading volume. The discussion reveals how individuals can exploit these markets for profit, including a story of a man who made $3 million betting on Polymarket, raising questions about the legalities and ethics of such platforms.
Modern Wisdom·#1078 - New Studio Launch Party - Indian Fetishes, Betting on Wars & Tom Cruise·Mar 30, 2026
“if you're a page like an app like ChatGPT where you would rather want to cache on the client instead One thing I really excited about for example is that we want to extend the use cache layer so that we can have also an offline layer So right now, we can cache it on clients across sessions, but the idea is what if we just also kept it across reload seamlessly? And then you would just be able to reload your page while offline and then still have the data from something out of the bugs, …”“if you're a page like an app like ChatGPT where you would rather want to cache on the client instead One thing I really excited about for example is that we want to extend the use cache layer so that we can have also an offline layer So right now, we can cache it on clients across sessions, but the idea is what if we just also kept it across reload seamlessly? And then you would just be able to reload your page while offline and then still have the data from something out of the bugs, right? Without having to do potentially a synchronization layer. Oh, that'd be cool. I like that a lot. So a lot of the APIs that we're adding are like edited, especially with cache components. There's many things that we haven't really talked about, like this offline thing that Jimmy's talking about. Right now, they're building the foundation of …”View more
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Next.js is introducing a groundbreaking offline caching feature that allows users to reload pages without losing data, even when offline. This innovation is part of a broader shift towards more dynamic and user-friendly caching APIs, enabling developers to optimize their applications seamlessly. With these changes, developers can focus on building their apps before implementing performance enhancements.
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats·995: Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More·Apr 13, 2026
“… This is actually insane. Be tech guy in Australia. Adopt cancer-riddled rescue dog months to live. Pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA Feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold Zero background in biology Identify mutated proteins Match them to drug targets Design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch Genomics professor is gobsmacked that some puppy lover did this on his own Need ethics approval to administer it Red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine Three months finally approved Drive 10 hours to get Rosie her first injection Tumor halves, coat gets glossy again Dog is alive and happy …”“… now the conversation goes to 11. But it wasn't just the negative side of AI that was at 11. Google DeepMind's Seb Cryer shared an article linked from The Australian that went hyper-viral with nearly 13 million views. Vittorio summed it up this way, This is actually insane. Be tech guy in Australia. Adopt cancer-riddled rescue dog months to live. Pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA Feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold Zero background in biology Identify mutated proteins Match them to drug targets Design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch Genomics professor is gobsmacked that some puppy lover did this on his own Need ethics approval to administer it Red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine Three months finally approved Drive 10 hours to get Rosie her first injection Tumor halves, coat gets glossy again Dog is alive and happy Professor, if we can do this for a dog why aren't we rolling this out to humans? One man with a chatbot and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. We are going to cure so many diseases. I don't think people realize how good things are going to get. So here's the story. Australian entrepreneur Paul Coiningham has a dog …”View more
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An Australian entrepreneur used AI to develop a personalized mRNA vaccine for his dog Rosie, diagnosed with terminal cancer. With the help of ChatGPT and AlphaFold, he turned a heartbreaking situation into a groundbreaking case study in veterinary medicine, demonstrating the potential of personalized treatment. While Rosie's tumors shrank and her quality of life improved, the story highlights both the promise and challenges of applying AI in healthcare.
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis·A Guy Used AI to Cure His Dog's Cancer*·Mar 16, 2026
“… via something called artificial intelligence. Like, what the fuck? What was the one I sent you today where there's like a potential lawsuit with ChatGPT? You only sent me the ghost murmur thing. I didn't send you the other one? Did I send it to you? You sent it to me. The shooting was planned using ChatGPT. I don't know if that's true, so we should be really careful. Yeah, that doesn't sound – It sounds so crazy. It doesn't sound like you could do that. That sounds like the story. So like I wanted to investigate because the story sounds like if I wanted to kill an AI company, I would make up a …”“… keep a battery for 24 hours. You could go on YouTube and get an answer to any question you want about anything. Yeah. Instantaneously. And if you don't like the way you look, you can upload that image and a machine will make you look slightly better via something called artificial intelligence. Like, what the fuck? What was the one I sent you today where there's like a potential lawsuit with ChatGPT? You only sent me the ghost murmur thing. I didn't send you the other one? Did I send it to you? You sent it to me. The shooting was planned using ChatGPT. I don't know if that's true, so we should be really careful. Yeah, that doesn't sound – It sounds so crazy. It doesn't sound like you could do that. That sounds like the story. So like I wanted to investigate because the story sounds like if I wanted to kill an AI company, I would make up a story like that. It does sound like that. But family of men killed in shooting Florida State University to sue Chachi B.T. May have may have advised the shooter on how to carry out shooting. But that may have is important. Like how like. Yeah, that's really important. Right. And what is this on the Guardian? The shooter was in constant …”View more
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Duncan Trussell hilariously questions the absurdity of technology, likening instant travel to quantum entanglement and poking fun at how we understand our devices. His disbelief about AI potentially advising a shooter leads to a comedic exploration of how every kid uses ChatGPT, and the wild lengths he went to create a Charles Manson AI, only to be thwarted by the chatbot's strict guidelines.
The Joe Rogan Experience·#2481 - Duncan Trussell·Apr 09, 2026
“… you You think it a handful of people It not It all the time Here's my story of getting burned by that. I learned my lesson. The one way I'll use ChatGPT is just sometimes instead of Google. Especially if I want instructions for how to change settings on something. It's great. It has a lot of really useful cases. Spectacular for all of that stuff. If you want to use it as basically a glorified Wikipedia that's more instructive. Yeah.”“… of a citation. We don't know how it thinks about that. There hundreds and hundreds of cases of this happening I heard Scott Galloway talk about this on the Pivot podcast There some site that tracks this that he keeps an eye on and he says it astounds you You think it a handful of people It not It all the time Here's my story of getting burned by that. I learned my lesson. The one way I'll use ChatGPT is just sometimes instead of Google. Especially if I want instructions for how to change settings on something. It's great. It has a lot of really useful cases. Spectacular for all of that stuff. If you want to use it as basically a glorified Wikipedia that's more instructive. Yeah.”View more
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A lawyer faced sanctions for relying on ChatGPT to draft a legal brief, highlighting the risks of using AI without verification. Despite over 30 years of experience, the lawyer and his co-counsel failed to check the accuracy of the AI-generated citations, resulting in serious professional consequences. This incident underscores the gap between tech-savvy engineers and everyday users, who may struggle with command-line interfaces and AI applications.
Modern Wisdom·#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)·Mar 05, 2026
“OpenAI beefs up ChatGPT's image generation model. This week OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2 which they claim is the best image generation model ever Some new qualities of the model Apparently it is better at following instructions preserving requested details rendering text It can search the internet for recent information, and it can generate more than one image at a time. Casey, have you tried this yet? I have tried it, although, frankly, just with a couple of …”“OpenAI beefs up ChatGPT's image generation model. This week OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2 which they claim is the best image generation model ever Some new qualities of the model Apparently it is better at following instructions preserving requested details rendering text It can search the internet for recent information, and it can generate more than one image at a time. Casey, have you tried this yet? I have tried it, although, frankly, just with a couple of basic things. Just before recording, I fed it a picture of us and told it to put us into cool Gen Z outfits, and it told us that it couldn't do that because it violated its policies. I'm still not exactly sure which policy we violated. I guess trying to look cool is not something that we're allowed to do in America. Yeah, it's a crime to try to look …”View more
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Meta's employee surveillance for AI training raises serious privacy concerns. As companies like OpenAI enhance their models, questions about the sources of training data become critical. This segment dives into the implications of using employee-generated content for AI development and the ethical dilemmas it presents.
Hard Fork·Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT·Apr 24, 2026
“… or high school professors or whatever are dealing with the fact that, yeah, a lot of their students are probably just typing a prompt into ChatGPT and then cranking out a thousand word essay. But that's a very controlled environment. It's a fishbowl. If somebody at the university down the road, ChatGPT generates their history exam, that doesn't affect me personally. But if somebody is ChatGPT generating an article about what the LAPD is doing or not doing, that could affect me. And we're already a stage where people just straight up don't trust journalism at all. And what do we do if the …”“… dealing with this world. But for me personally, in my little corner of magazine journalism, I haven't been confronted with it until now. Yeah, no, it's interesting you bring that up because I think a lot of people are curious about how university professors or high school professors or whatever are dealing with the fact that, yeah, a lot of their students are probably just typing a prompt into ChatGPT and then cranking out a thousand word essay. But that's a very controlled environment. It's a fishbowl. If somebody at the university down the road, ChatGPT generates their history exam, that doesn't affect me personally. But if somebody is ChatGPT generating an article about what the LAPD is doing or not doing, that could affect me. And we're already a stage where people just straight up don't trust journalism at all. And what do we do if the writers are lying to the editors or the writers don't even exist? Yeah, yeah.”View more
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We're entering a new era where AI-generated journalism is blurring the lines of truth and authenticity. An expert admits that while they don't recall speaking to an AI-generated writer, they are fine with the representation, indicating a troubling acceptance of 'close enough' as truth. This raises critical questions about the future of journalism and our understanding of what is real.
Uncanny Valley | WIRED·Introducing Kill Switch Podcast: Uncovering an AI Journalist·Mar 18, 2026
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OpenAI's recent contract with the U.S. military has sparked a significant backlash, leading to a wave of cancellations of ChatGPT subscriptions. Many users are flocking to competitor Claude, resulting in a surge in its app store rankings and potentially shifting the landscape of AI usage among non-business consumers. This moment marks a critical shift in brand perception and user loyalty in the AI space.
Last Week in AI·#236 - GPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Supply Chain Risk·Mar 12, 2026
“Yeah, okay. Right now, it's kind of, it's a little bit dumb, but it's getting a lot smarter. So let me back up. Yeah. A year ago. Yes. When you use ChatGPT, you would choose model, extended thinking or not, like complex thinking. There was like four options, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he'd be like, oh, I think O1 is the best model for this. We were geeks. We were like, okay, O1, whatever. And he hit go. Yeah. And then the query could have been what window of time classifies a Pisces, right? Okay. And you charge, you cast an O1 model that burned through $1.50 in freaking energy to go figure …”“Yeah, okay. Right now, it's kind of, it's a little bit dumb, but it's getting a lot smarter. So let me back up. Yeah. A year ago. Yes. When you use ChatGPT, you would choose model, extended thinking or not, like complex thinking. There was like four options, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he'd be like, oh, I think O1 is the best model for this. We were geeks. We were like, okay, O1, whatever. And he hit go. Yeah. And then the query could have been what window of time classifies a Pisces, right? Okay. And you charge, you cast an O1 model that burned through $1.50 in freaking energy to go figure out that question. When you could have given it to the lowest, cheapest, dirt cheap model, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What we're starting to see now, which is going to make AI actually win and efficient, is it naturally understanding when it needs to upgrade its thinking process because the model it's been assigned by default is not …”View more
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AI is transforming how we cook by dynamically choosing the best models for our needs, saving both time and energy. Just like how I used AI to perfect my smoked prime rib recipe, it can help anyone modify family favorites or find quick cooking solutions. This shift could disrupt traditional recipe books and chefs, making cooking more accessible than ever.
Diggnation (Rebooted)·He Dressed as a Bear to Scam a $400K Rolls-Royce·Apr 28, 2026
“… teach people how to communicate more effectively through stories. And, you know, I wrote some other stuff. And I put it through ChatGBT. I often use ChatGPT just to edit. I'm not very good at grammar and spelling. Yeah, same here. So I just use it for that. And it came back, Darren. It came back and it said, I teach people how to authentically communicate via stories to bridge the gap between impact and trust. You would never say that, right? First of all, I would never say that. Like, shoot me now if those words ever came out of my mouth. my first instinct was what the hell does that even mean …”“… say that or that doesn't feel like me, then you have to change it. I had an example just a few weeks ago where I had to complete a form and part of the form said, you know, in a couple of paragraphs, explain what you do. So I wrote something like I teach people how to communicate more effectively through stories. And, you know, I wrote some other stuff. And I put it through ChatGBT. I often use ChatGPT just to edit. I'm not very good at grammar and spelling. Yeah, same here. So I just use it for that. And it came back, Darren. It came back and it said, I teach people how to authentically communicate via stories to bridge the gap between impact and trust. You would never say that, right? First of all, I would never say that. Like, shoot me now if those words ever came out of my mouth. my first instinct was what the hell does that even mean like a bridge the gap between impact and trust I'm going I don't even I wouldn't even be able to explain what that meant but then part of me thought but it sounds good doesn't it like doesn't that like and so this is the track where you go oh that sounds good people go oh maybe that will be my tagline I will bridge the gap between impact and trust. …”View more
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Using AI to enhance storytelling can risk losing your authentic voice. Doctor Darren shares a personal experience where AI-generated text sounded impressive but completely misrepresented his style. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining authenticity in communication, suggesting that effective storytelling should reflect your true self, not just polished phrases.
Embracing Digital Transformation·#340 Unlocking Your Authentic Voice: Using AI to Enhance Storytelling·Apr 07, 2026
“… like, this guy loves to win, and this is a really big contest? Totally. I mean, that's Exactly right. I remember going to see him, you know, when ChatGPT was just going viral. And he said, you know, Sebastian, this is war. These guys at OpenAI, they've parked the tanks in my front yard. He actually said, park the tanks on my lawn because he's English. But yeah, you get it.”“… five times, which is sort of like an all-around gaming competition. Do you think that is part of his approach to AI? I mean, he's always talking about how he wants to use this to solve scientific mysteries and cure diseases, but is some part of it just like, this guy loves to win, and this is a really big contest? Totally. I mean, that's Exactly right. I remember going to see him, you know, when ChatGPT was just going viral. And he said, you know, Sebastian, this is war. These guys at OpenAI, they've parked the tanks in my front yard. He actually said, park the tanks on my lawn because he's English. But yeah, you get it.”View more
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Demis Hassabis identifies with a fictional boy genius who saves humanity, revealing his own ambition to do the same with AI. Surprisingly, he shared this connection with his wife, but she sympathized more with the character than with him. This competitive drive, likened to a war against rivals like OpenAI, fuels his quest for AI supremacy.
Hard Fork·The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT·Apr 03, 2026
“That's what I call. Yeah. So you worked on ChatGPT. That's right. And obviously, I felt like that was kind of the starting gun of this whole AI revolution, or at least in terms of people's awareness. I'd started investing in the area beforehand, but it seemed like almost as a secret up until ChatGPT came out of it, and suddenly everybody realized that there's this powerful technology available. Yes. How did that lead you to materials and atoms and the physical world again? I know that was sort …”“That's what I call. Yeah. So you worked on ChatGPT. That's right. And obviously, I felt like that was kind of the starting gun of this whole AI revolution, or at least in terms of people's awareness. I'd started investing in the area beforehand, but it seemed like almost as a secret up until ChatGPT came out of it, and suddenly everybody realized that there's this powerful technology available. Yes. How did that lead you to materials and atoms and the physical world again? I know that was sort of your starting point in terms of academics, but what brought you back given how much is being transform right now through language? I think just the inevitability of connecting these systems to the physical world. The opinion that I and others held as periodic was, you're not going to see the same kind of acceleration in science and technology …”View more
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The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 was a pivotal moment that ignited the AI revolution, revealing the immense potential of AI technologies. Liam Fedus, co-founder of Periodic Labs, explains how this technology's evolution is now enabling breakthroughs in materials engineering by connecting AI systems to the physical world, transforming scientific experimentation and data accessibility. This shift is crucial for accelerating advancements in science and technology.
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups·AI for Atoms: How Periodic Labs is Revolutionizing Materials Engineering with Co-Founder Liam Fedus·Apr 03, 2026
“… chased revenue growth and hired 60 people. So wildly different business outcome here. Wow. He like I not doing that again Open AI release of ChatGPT 2022 inspired Mr Gallagher to start tinkering with AI Two years later he met Jitin Chhabra a co of Care Validate a medical startup in Atlanta Care Validate offers what is essentially telehealth in a box kits. Companies, employers, and retailers who that want to sell customers prescription drugs can use Care Validate's technology and network of online doctors to set up a business. The company's software connects patients with doctors and …”“… trouble. Are you renting them? You're like, you got another watch? You're just subscribed to new watches. I didn't realize I was getting a subscription. Oops, it came in the mail again. It had fans but never turned a profit, WatchGang. Even as Mr. Gallagher chased revenue growth and hired 60 people. So wildly different business outcome here. Wow. He like I not doing that again Open AI release of ChatGPT 2022 inspired Mr Gallagher to start tinkering with AI Two years later he met Jitin Chhabra a co of Care Validate a medical startup in Atlanta Care Validate offers what is essentially telehealth in a box kits. Companies, employers, and retailers who that want to sell customers prescription drugs can use Care Validate's technology and network of online doctors to set up a business. The company's software connects patients with doctors and pharmacies, which write, fulfill, and ship the prescriptions. Care validate charges fees for its software. So you have to imagine that there's a fairly decent cost structure here. But that's not to diminish. It's an incredible amount of revenue. You look at the comps, and you're blown away. But yeah, it's just interesting to understand. Yeah, the other …”View more
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In just two years, founder Mr. Gallagher skyrocketed his telehealth startup to $401 million in sales, competing against giants in the industry. Leveraging AI and unique insights into customer acquisition, he created a profitable business model that connects patients with doctors and pharmacies. This remarkable journey showcases the power of innovation in a crowded market.
“… value synchronously or asynchronously? It's one way to think about it. A lot of the kind of assistive technologies that we've been using, like ChatGPT, it's really about synchronous value creation. I'm basically saying, hey, go ahead and research this for me and then give me a synthesis of this information. We now get moving to a world where you can basically set these things up to create value asynchronously. So they can sit there in the background and then when something happens, like hey there's a notification like can you you know an example to kind of extend your metaphor is um i i'm …”“Yeah, I think the thing is there's a lot of different sort of definitions and dimensions here. but is it creating value synchronously or asynchronously? It's one way to think about it. A lot of the kind of assistive technologies that we've been using, like ChatGPT, it's really about synchronous value creation. I'm basically saying, hey, go ahead and research this for me and then give me a synthesis of this information. We now get moving to a world where you can basically set these things up to create value asynchronously. So they can sit there in the background and then when something happens, like hey there's a notification like can you you know an example to kind of extend your metaphor is um i i'm kind of like i've got this guilty pleasure which is um you know kind of airline miles hacking i love those airline miles hacking things and using my credit cards i'm like i don't know why but it's just my thing right and it's it's a pain because you know airlines release seats at certain times and so what you can now start to do is basically you know …”View more
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Imagine an AI that can monitor flight prices 24/7 and book your dream vacation at the perfect moment. This is the power of asynchronous value creation with Agentic AI, where you set parameters, and the AI acts on your behalf without constant oversight. However, it's crucial to establish guardrails to prevent unintended consequences, like booking an extravagant trip without your approval.
Embracing Digital Transformation·#338 Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI: A Beginners Guide·Mar 30, 2026
“… – four years ago, I met someone from LinkedIn. They were like, you should be on LinkedIn. I'm like, I can't write. So I'm so bad at that. And then ChatGPT came around, and my LinkedIn is growing like crazy. Yeah, and I've always had ghostwriting infrastructure for my books because I've never been able to write. But I've always wanted it. You know, it's funny. Every book I've written, everyone with my written content, people come up to me. They're like, man, it sounds so much like you. I'm like, it is fully me because it is truly transcribed for my words. I don't write differently than I talk …”“… that. And then we will create a first-person article about the barbell theory, why analog is on the rise, right? So a lot more written content. Interesting. And I feel like it's becoming so much easier because I remember a couple of years ago, I met – four years ago, I met someone from LinkedIn. They were like, you should be on LinkedIn. I'm like, I can't write. So I'm so bad at that. And then ChatGPT came around, and my LinkedIn is growing like crazy. Yeah, and I've always had ghostwriting infrastructure for my books because I've never been able to write. But I've always wanted it. You know, it's funny. Every book I've written, everyone with my written content, people come up to me. They're like, man, it sounds so much like you. I'm like, it is fully me because it is truly transcribed for my words. I don't write differently than I talk because it's just the transcription. But so writing content, I'm incredibly focused on being, and I'm pushing my team right now on this, on just being remarkable on every platform, like obsession to how to win Snapchat spotlight, obsession to understand how to be great at YouTube Shorts to make sure I'm feeding the LLMs of Gemini with my content. Why …”View more
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Gary Vaynerchuk emphasizes that adapting your social media strategy isn't solely about leveraging AI; it's about understanding the nuances of each platform. He shares his approach of focusing on long-form content and the importance of pop culture relevance in connecting with audiences. This method ensures that even if the landscape shifts dramatically, he can quickly regain his footing.
Silicon Valley Girl·Why You're Missing the AI Opportunity (And How to Fix It) | Gary Vee·Mar 30, 2026
“So let's talk about it. All right. So ChatGPT drops in November of 2022 and suddenly the whole tech industry loses its mind And for good reason because ChatGPT exploded in popularity overnight adding 100 million users in two months And every single tech company became obsessed with AI, including our boy Zuck. And Zuck, to his credit, moved fast to take advantage. For one, he focused the company on profitability. Meta launched the year of efficiency in 2023, cutting over 21,000 jobs. And …”“So let's talk about it. All right. So ChatGPT drops in November of 2022 and suddenly the whole tech industry loses its mind And for good reason because ChatGPT exploded in popularity overnight adding 100 million users in two months And every single tech company became obsessed with AI, including our boy Zuck. And Zuck, to his credit, moved fast to take advantage. For one, he focused the company on profitability. Meta launched the year of efficiency in 2023, cutting over 21,000 jobs. And they also started gaining traction with Instagram Reels. And look, those moves worked, at least for the stock. Meta went from under $100 a share in late 2022 to hitting all-time highs of $790 by August of 2025. That's a 8x return in less than three years, which is pretty remarkable. And Mark Zuckerberg himself kind of went through a personal makeover …”View more
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Meta's shift from the metaverse to AI has resulted in a staggering stock increase, but recent concerns are causing a downturn. After cutting jobs and investing heavily in AI infrastructure, Meta's stock soared from under $100 to $790 in just three years, showcasing the impact of their new strategy. However, with recent stock declines and ongoing legal challenges, the future remains uncertain.
The Rundown·Deep Dive: Is Meta Having an Identity Crisis?·Mar 28, 2026
“… idea of agents has been around for years, in fact, it's been one of the exciting things that we were always just around the corner from since the ChatGPT moment. It really is in the last few months that they became a practical reality for lots and lots of people. In 2025, we were living in the BOC, the before Open Claw times. Now we are living in the AOC, by which I mean, of course, not Mr. Casio Cortez, but after Open Claw. And as much as people's first instinct is to explore agents in the business realm, I think it's very unlikely that it stays there. Now let's go back to something actually …”“… about every domain. But I do have some specific thoughts that this brought up for me. One glaring thing when reading this is just how little we have thought and discussed agents in non-business domains. Now, on the one hand, this makes sense. While the idea of agents has been around for years, in fact, it's been one of the exciting things that we were always just around the corner from since the ChatGPT moment. It really is in the last few months that they became a practical reality for lots and lots of people. In 2025, we were living in the BOC, the before Open Claw times. Now we are living in the AOC, by which I mean, of course, not Mr. Casio Cortez, but after Open Claw. And as much as people's first instinct is to explore agents in the business realm, I think it's very unlikely that it stays there. Now let's go back to something actually more fundamental before we get into that. There is an implicit idea that runs throughout Andy's message, that people actually care enough to want being better informed in the way that Andy suggests is possible with AI. The cynical contra-Andy take is that people simply don't care enough to be informed. And at this point in American political …”View more
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Imagine if AI could lower the cost of being informed, transforming political engagement. Stanford professor Andy Hall suggests that by creating personal political agents, we could empower citizens who want to be informed but face barriers. This shift could lead to a more engaged democracy where knowledge is accessible to everyone.
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis·How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better·Mar 28, 2026
“… project, where I'm like, where do I even start organizing 50 years, all these characters, all these projects. It's like overwhelming. So I asked ChatGPT for an outline and it did the most, I mean, maybe it's obvious, but like it, it suggested four main parts, like Steve 1.0 and was the founding, then the interregnum, the period when Steve Jobs was gone, then Steve Jobs 2.0, and then Tim. And then it put all the chapters in order. I didn't use the chapter suggestions because I wanted the book to be a nice, tidy 50 chapters. But it put all the pieces into a Lego pile in front of me. And that …”“And even that I got hate mail. for. Like AI has a really bad rep, especially among Gen Zers. They do not like you using it. I didn't use it for any writing, but there was a day early on, right after my wife suggested this project, where I'm like, where do I even start organizing 50 years, all these characters, all these projects. It's like overwhelming. So I asked ChatGPT for an outline and it did the most, I mean, maybe it's obvious, but like it, it suggested four main parts, like Steve 1.0 and was the founding, then the interregnum, the period when Steve Jobs was gone, then Steve Jobs 2.0, and then Tim. And then it put all the chapters in order. I didn't use the chapter suggestions because I wanted the book to be a nice, tidy 50 chapters. But it put all the pieces into a Lego pile in front of me. And that alone was incredibly useful. Yeah, I find that AI like using it for that purpose as a tool. More so, I'm firmly against using it for anything creatively, broadly speaking, but as a tool, it's incredible. Like, like you just mentioned, that's what I would have done if I was like, had this monumental task, I would have asked like, where do I start? So …”View more
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Apple's approach to AI avoids the pitfalls of bad advice, focusing instead on enhancing user experience without compromising safety. David Pogue shares how he used AI tools to organize his book on Apple's history, emphasizing that while AI can be a helpful tool, Apple prioritizes responsible use over creative shortcuts. This careful balance is key to Apple's strategy in navigating the complex world of AI technology.
9to5Mac Overtime·9to5Mac Overtime 065: Untelling parts of the story w/ special guest David Pogue·Mar 27, 2026
“The information says that OpenAI has surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads already and has expanded to more than 600 advertisers and plans to launch self-serve advertising access in April. Quote, relevance, as well as ensuring that ads don't negatively impact user trust, the spokesperson said. The company announced earlier this week that it had brought on former meta ad executive Dave Duggan to lead ad sales. It's now exploring expanding ads into other geographic regions, including Canada, Australia, and New …”“The information says that OpenAI has surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads already and has expanded to more than 600 advertisers and plans to launch self-serve advertising access in April. Quote, relevance, as well as ensuring that ads don't negatively impact user trust, the spokesperson said. The company announced earlier this week that it had brought on former meta ad executive Dave Duggan to lead ad sales. It's now exploring expanding ads into other geographic regions, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the spokesperson said. Ads represent an important source of revenue as the company gears up to go public. Executives have told investors that the company expects to generate more than $17 billion from consumers using ChatGPT in 2026, including making money from free users through advertisements, end quote. A sources told Reuters that Elon Musk …”View more
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SpaceX's IPO is generating unprecedented retail investor interest, likened to Google's public market debut, reflecting immense confidence in Elon Musk.
SpaceX's strategy to allocate a significant portion of its IPO to retail investors reflects strong confidence in Elon Musk's leadership and the company's future prospects.
“… background. But I met my co-founder Rahul there and we started this company in 2022 as an AI company in response to him getting a sneak preview of ChatGPT. And since then, it's been an absolute ride. Our mission has been to tackle what we've seen as the existential threat with AI. And that's all things social engineering, deep fakes, impersonation, phishing, fraud, you name it. And today we're now blessed to be working with hundreds of enterprise customers, scaling quickly to support some of the largest organizations in the world. We've got dozens of Fortune 500 logos. And we operate in multiple …”“… backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. Before all this, my background was actually in software engineering at Uber and Lyft. I worked on everything from dispatch systems to flying cars, not quite the traditional cyber founder background. But I met my co-founder Rahul there and we started this company in 2022 as an AI company in response to him getting a sneak preview of ChatGPT. And since then, it's been an absolute ride. Our mission has been to tackle what we've seen as the existential threat with AI. And that's all things social engineering, deep fakes, impersonation, phishing, fraud, you name it. And today we're now blessed to be working with hundreds of enterprise customers, scaling quickly to support some of the largest organizations in the world. We've got dozens of Fortune 500 logos. And we operate in multiple key areas around social engineering. So we're the first social engineering defense platform that enables you to detect impersonation attacks, whether they're impersonating your brand or your executive, take them down. And so that's traditionally been called the brand protection, executive protection products. and now even enable you to simulate and …”View more
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AI is manipulating our digital reality, leading to a crisis of trust. As deepfakes and AI-generated content flood platforms like YouTube, the challenge isn't just individual attacks but a widespread erosion of credibility. To combat this, companies like Doppel are leveraging AI to defend against these new social engineering threats.
Eye On A.I.·#328 Kevin Tian: Exploring Doppel's AI-Native Social Engineering Defense Platform·Mar 27, 2026
“… so I'm going to try to be quick on this question. But with the health and the health coach stuff, do you think this is going to be kind of what ChatGPT was trying to do with Apple Health? Like, is it going to try to tie all that stuff in together? I think that that was the idea. I mean, basically, any chatbot can provide you with health insights. If you export your health data from the health app, you can get responses from a chatbot that are pretty interesting. and I think that the idea was to have Siri available or some kind of chatbot in the health app. Where this seems to have got confused …”“There's a train coming through, so I'm going to try to be quick on this question. But with the health and the health coach stuff, do you think this is going to be kind of what ChatGPT was trying to do with Apple Health? Like, is it going to try to tie all that stuff in together? I think that that was the idea. I mean, basically, any chatbot can provide you with health insights. If you export your health data from the health app, you can get responses from a chatbot that are pretty interesting. and I think that the idea was to have Siri available or some kind of chatbot in the health app. Where this seems to have got confused is that this was apparently going to be a subscription service that Apple was going to charge for. But those plans have now apparently been scaled back. Now, I would expect that's because Apple's realized that it can't really charge for that knowing that other services can basically do the exact same thing for free and it's highly speculative. …”View more
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Apple's plans for a subscription-based health AI feature have been scaled back after realizing users can access similar services for free. The company aims to integrate AI insights into the Health app without charging users, acknowledging the risks of unreliable health information. This pivot suggests Apple is prioritizing user trust over monetization in health technology.
The MacRumors Show·187: Apple Announces WWDC 2026 & Teases New AI Features·Mar 27, 2026
“… and now it is going out, and I have a bunch of takes on this obviously this is not the end of video creation for OpenAI this will be rolled into ChatGPT I imagine Tyler Hodge put it well, bullish, killing products quickly is hard, almost no one can do it. It's a good sign for OpenAI. They consolidating In many ways it like last week you heard about the code red was like a month or two ago And then it was like we refocusing And then it like here step one of refocusing a single app that we going to push everything together And also, I've enjoyed making some videos in Sora. I've never enjoyed …”“… it still in the app store? I think it's like the announcement was that it will be leaving the app store millions of people have made content on the app, have to leave it running for some amount of time, there's a phase out but the announcement happened and now it is going out, and I have a bunch of takes on this obviously this is not the end of video creation for OpenAI this will be rolled into ChatGPT I imagine Tyler Hodge put it well, bullish, killing products quickly is hard, almost no one can do it. It's a good sign for OpenAI. They consolidating In many ways it like last week you heard about the code red was like a month or two ago And then it was like we refocusing And then it like here step one of refocusing a single app that we going to push everything together And also, I've enjoyed making some videos in Sora. I've never enjoyed having to go to a separate app. I want all of that to live in one place. So that makes a lot of sense. Let's see what Dak said. It's lame to see all the people saying, ha, I called it. I knew Sora wouldn't work. Yeah, duh, because everyone thought that, including me who were working on it.”View more
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Killing products quickly is hard, but OpenAI's decision to shut down Sora is a strategic move to consolidate and refocus, indicating a positive direction for the company.
TBPN·Benchmark's Future, SpaceX IPO, RIP Sora | Mike Knoop, Nathan Benaich, Rohin Dhar, Eric Jorgenson, Jenny Just, and Matt Hulsizer·Mar 25, 2026
“… that like makes me really excited because like yeah i I'll have some vague sense of like, I do kind of think Claude is better at writing than ChatGPT. But this benchmark will allow us to, in a much more robust and like scientific way, sort of put something behind those intuitions. So once that gets released, I'm going to follow up with you about whether 3.5, how it scores. Please. Yeah, I'd love to see how it scores and how they all do. And the truth is, you know, it's also there are a million different types of writing. There's technical writing, there's journalism, there's blog writing, …”“… based take right of just like you yeah which i do too right i mean we all do it um but we at surge are actually about to release a creative writing benchmark and um i don't know if we're going to test it on 3.5 it's a little older but this is something that like makes me really excited because like yeah i I'll have some vague sense of like, I do kind of think Claude is better at writing than ChatGPT. But this benchmark will allow us to, in a much more robust and like scientific way, sort of put something behind those intuitions. So once that gets released, I'm going to follow up with you about whether 3.5, how it scores. Please. Yeah, I'd love to see how it scores and how they all do. And the truth is, you know, it's also there are a million different types of writing. There's technical writing, there's journalism, there's blog writing, newsletter writing, script writing, creative writing, poetry, and you know. To say nothing of the different tastes, how taste plays into judging all of that. And I'm really curious to see how they eventually fare among different types, because I have a suspicion that maybe some will be better at creative, but others might be really good at technical …”View more
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AI agents are advancing so rapidly that by 2026, they might be capable of handling tasks across various industries, potentially replacing human workers in fields like tax prep and customer support. Surge AI's Nick Heiner discusses how elite coding agents could generalize their skills, transforming knowledge work at an unprecedented pace. However, user experience challenges remain before this technology can be widely adopted.
The Neuron: AI Explained·Inside the Secret Labs Where AI Learns to Work·Mar 25, 2026
“… And that pace of change hasn't slowed. Just when everybody thought, oh, COVID's over, we can take a breath. November 30th of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and we got everything got turned on its head again. The last three years from that have been just an incredibly fast paced evolution of how do we use this technology? I have a chart. It's almost the seven stages of grief going through all of that. We're really in the acceptance phase with AI now, and how are we applying it appropriately? 70% of workers feel unprepared. What does that really mean? You've got this kind of schism between education …”“You talk about this pace of change that started in six years ago, March of 2020. And that pace of change hasn't slowed. Just when everybody thought, oh, COVID's over, we can take a breath. November 30th of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and we got everything got turned on its head again. The last three years from that have been just an incredibly fast paced evolution of how do we use this technology? I have a chart. It's almost the seven stages of grief going through all of that. We're really in the acceptance phase with AI now, and how are we applying it appropriately? 70% of workers feel unprepared. What does that really mean? You've got this kind of schism between education that in many ways is still really dealing with the academic integrity idea, this idea that AI is just for cheating, versus businesses that are trying to figure out how do we optimize our jobs with these tools, and in many cases don't feel like universities are preparing them for that. It's even worse than K-12. When you look at K-12 and there's a …”View more
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Nearly 70% of workers feel unprepared for today's job market, highlighting a critical disconnect between education and industry needs. As AI tools like ChatGPT revolutionize workplaces, educators struggle with integrating these technologies while addressing fears of academic dishonesty. A new initiative aims to provide AI literacy to millions, emphasizing the need for updated teaching methods that reflect the realities of modern problem-solving.
Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice·70% of Workers Feel Unprepared: How Instructure Is Rethinking Learning with Ryan Lufkin·Mar 24, 2026
“… to ditch its side quests in order to, quote, nail productivity on the business front. That new strategy includes building a super app that combines ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser. The company is also planning to double its headcount by the end of the year as it works to keep up with Anthropic. Here to discuss OpenAI's new strategy, we're speaking with Alex Heath, author of the sources newsletter and co-host of the access podcast so alex uh this new news from open ai they are trying to ditch the side quest this is sort of the initiative that's being spearheaded by fiji simo who i know you …”“We're back with Prof G Markets. OpenAI is changing course as the AI race intensifies. In an internal memo, the company's chief of applications said that OpenAI needs to ditch its side quests in order to, quote, nail productivity on the business front. That new strategy includes building a super app that combines ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser. The company is also planning to double its headcount by the end of the year as it works to keep up with Anthropic. Here to discuss OpenAI's new strategy, we're speaking with Alex Heath, author of the sources newsletter and co-host of the access podcast so alex uh this new news from open ai they are trying to ditch the side quest this is sort of the initiative that's being spearheaded by fiji simo who i know you have interviewed and who you've been talking with um tell us a little bit about what you know about what they're trying to do at this point How has the OpenAI business strategy actually changed here? Yeah, I mean, I've been seeing people calling this a pivot, and I guess you could say it is. But if you look at what's really happened over the last …”View more
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OpenAI is pivoting from consumer-focused side projects to a more streamlined business strategy, aiming to enhance productivity and compete with enterprise-focused rivals like Anthropic.
Prof G Markets·$1T Moved on Iran “Talks” — Did They Even Happen?·Mar 24, 2026
“… into making this actually useful to automate to more people. You know, while a chatbot is interesting and has been obviously very popular, you know, ChatGPT was one of the fastest growing consumer products, maybe in history, I feel like, just adoption rate, the amount of people that started using the ChatGPT app. But like you said earlier, a chatbot is very limited as to what it can do. You can ask it a lot of things, it can tell you a lot of things, but they can't really do much else outside of that window. and this has felt like Cloud Cowork and even being in the shortcuts world for so long, it …”“… door from Instacart. And it feels like large language models and AI, they've been really interesting tools. The chat pod has been the first kind of interface that we have used to interact with these models. And Cowork has felt like the next step into making this actually useful to automate to more people. You know, while a chatbot is interesting and has been obviously very popular, you know, ChatGPT was one of the fastest growing consumer products, maybe in history, I feel like, just adoption rate, the amount of people that started using the ChatGPT app. But like you said earlier, a chatbot is very limited as to what it can do. You can ask it a lot of things, it can tell you a lot of things, but they can't really do much else outside of that window. and this has felt like Cloud Cowork and even being in the shortcuts world for so long, it was a realization of, oh, this is what a true large language model with access to your data in a safe way, what is possible.”View more
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AI systems like ChatGPT struggle with memory, often forgetting instructions despite being programmed to follow them. This can lead to significant risks, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information when AI operates independently. Understanding these challenges is crucial for improving AI reliability and security.
Mac Power Users·841: The Robot Assistant Field Guide·Mar 22, 2026
“… now we're really in it with gems. And we were not at the outset using gems and thought that we were gonna be exclusively using you know, Claude or ChatGPT, et cetera. Now that completely is shifted. So I think you're going to, we're going to start to see more of that and that will force a normalization. So that would be, I guess, technically a consult, potentially a consolidation of the tools that you actually need. Does he see it like happening? Yeah, I think that that's true. I think that's, I think that's ground truth that that will happen over time. I mean, I think there's incredible …”“… But then when we started working with gems and started to really understand how to use them and their shareability within our organization and the fact that they would get better over time with more use, it became something where like, wow, now we're really in it with gems. And we were not at the outset using gems and thought that we were gonna be exclusively using you know, Claude or ChatGPT, et cetera. Now that completely is shifted. So I think you're going to, we're going to start to see more of that and that will force a normalization. So that would be, I guess, technically a consult, potentially a consolidation of the tools that you actually need. Does he see it like happening? Yeah, I think that that's true. I think that's, I think that's ground truth that that will happen over time. I mean, I think there's incredible applications for AI in all corners of the world, especially the physical world that's been sort of maybe less touched by technology, you know, over the years. And I hear as an investor, I hear about a lot of interesting ideas in that regard. So I think there's going to continue to be this long tail of highly verticalized but very potent AI solutions.”View more
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Carta's CMO reveals how their adoption of AI tools has transformed their operations, particularly with the use of gems, which they initially overlooked. This shift highlights a broader trend where startups are consolidating their AI tools, leading to a normalization in the industry. As AI continues to evolve, expect a surge in specialized solutions across various sectors.
The Neuron: AI Explained·Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups·Mar 20, 2026
“… Apple's revenue from Gen AI apps grew from around $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August, with 75% of that coming from ChatGPT alone, and only about 5% of that coming from Grok. Quoting the journal, Apple is on pace to surpass $1 billion in artificial intelligence revenue this year, a tidy sum that demonstrates the company's AI advantage, even as it struggles to deliver an AI strategy of its own. Its Siri chatbot is still weak by modern standards. What Apple does have, though, that the other AI players don't, is a dominant position making devices. However fancy OpenAI, …”“Who says Apple isn't participating in the AI bonanza? According to AppMagic, Apple's revenue from Gen AI apps grew from around $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August, with 75% of that coming from ChatGPT alone, and only about 5% of that coming from Grok. Quoting the journal, Apple is on pace to surpass $1 billion in artificial intelligence revenue this year, a tidy sum that demonstrates the company's AI advantage, even as it struggles to deliver an AI strategy of its own. Its Siri chatbot is still weak by modern standards. What Apple does have, though, that the other AI players don't, is a dominant position making devices. However fancy OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and XAI make their chatbots, iPhones are still a primary way to deliver them to consumers. That means they typically pay the App Store tax roughly 30% of subscription fees in the first year and 15% a year thereafter, though rates vary by country. Generative AI apps paid Apple nearly $900 million in App Store fees in 2025, …”View more
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Apple is set to surpass $1 billion in AI revenue this year, despite its Siri chatbot lagging behind competitors. The company's revenue from generative AI apps has skyrocketed from $35 million in January to $101 million in August, largely driven by ChatGPT. This growth highlights Apple's unique advantage in the market, leveraging its dominant device ecosystem to capitalize on AI applications.
Tech Brew Ride Home·The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work·Mar 19, 2026
“… a partnership with OpenAI can't Codex CLI talk to DoorDash then? Or is there some break in the chain that needs to be resolved? It's more like in ChatGPT. It's not really accessible through Codex I don't think. So I have to tell Codex to go use chat gpt open a web browser click on the chat gpt box uh it is weird like these unhobblings are so like intuitive and then you realize that okay there's actually some sort of business reason or whatnot yeah yeah i mean i think a lot of people are just trying to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks so i think one thing that we've been finding really …”“… partner with their apps ecosystem and stuff. So we're trying to figure out how we want to play in this space to be honest. Just walk me through that OpenAI partnership because wouldn't that be the CLI? If I have Codex, that's a CLI and then if you have a partnership with OpenAI can't Codex CLI talk to DoorDash then? Or is there some break in the chain that needs to be resolved? It's more like in ChatGPT. It's not really accessible through Codex I don't think. So I have to tell Codex to go use chat gpt open a web browser click on the chat gpt box uh it is weird like these unhobblings are so like intuitive and then you realize that okay there's actually some sort of business reason or whatnot yeah yeah i mean i think a lot of people are just trying to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks so i think one thing that we've been finding really like getting a lot of traction especially with like what we're working with medicine is like i think there's some actual agentic workflows like customer facing workflows that we're working on that like just like us playing around with it the past couple of weeks, we legitimately think this is going to be something that's going to be beneficial to …”View more
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A new AI-driven Chrome plugin filters DoorDash for vegetarian options, showcasing how technology can alleviate decision paralysis. This innovation reflects a growing trend where custom software is developed to streamline everyday choices. The goal is to enhance user satisfaction and improve conversion rates without overwhelming them with options.
TBPN·H200s in China, Apple Blocks Vibe Coding, Peptide Debates | Andy Fang, Matt Jayson, Dr. Cameron Sepah, Chris Gadek, Chris Hladczuk, Georgios Konstantopoulos, Matt Huang·Mar 18, 2026
“… you share it with the world to collect feedback on that thought. He said that's the fastest, best way to learn. But actually in a world of AI where ChatGPT can do all of that for me we deferring our ability to sort of condense compress and understand to an AI because we think it creating an efficiency gain or a productivity gain in the near term Like maybe today's email will save you 30 seconds. But the tax you're paying, I think, is an understanding. And understanding is a proxy of therefore writing great questions. I find myself writing more. I wrote a memo. I was up till 2 a.m. last night …”“… You're constantly experiencing something in the real world, writing it down to develop your thinking, which Richard Fryman talks about the process of understanding where you learn something, condense it so an average person can understand it, then you share it with the world to collect feedback on that thought. He said that's the fastest, best way to learn. But actually in a world of AI where ChatGPT can do all of that for me we deferring our ability to sort of condense compress and understand to an AI because we think it creating an efficiency gain or a productivity gain in the near term Like maybe today's email will save you 30 seconds. But the tax you're paying, I think, is an understanding. And understanding is a proxy of therefore writing great questions. I find myself writing more. I wrote a memo. I was up till 2 a.m. last night writing a memo about my industry. If you were up late, thinking. Yeah. You were thinking clearly, and that was what you were really doing. A great question I want people to reflect on, I want them to think about the last five years and ask the question, when did I do something special that impacted a certain type of person? I can explain how I did it …”View more
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In a world where innovation thrives on diverse experiences, generalists are set to outshine specialists. Daniel Priestley emphasizes that combining unique skills and experiences can lead to groundbreaking ideas, like the nonstick frying pan and the iPhone. By resisting the urge to narrow your focus, you can unlock your potential and create value in unexpected ways.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett·Daniel Priestley: Plumbers Will Earn More Than Lawyers! I Predicted 2008, Now I'm Warning About 2029·Mar 16, 2026
“Next up, ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts. So this deals with dynamic visual explanations. It can create interactable real-time visuals. Apparently, there's 70 topics that it has, binomial square, Charles's law, Ohm's law, and other things like that. So it sounds like maybe it's kind of a pre-built set of visualizations, presumably for things that people often ask it about. And yeah, it's like a little …”“Next up, ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts. So this deals with dynamic visual explanations. It can create interactable real-time visuals. Apparently, there's 70 topics that it has, binomial square, Charles's law, Ohm's law, and other things like that. So it sounds like maybe it's kind of a pre-built set of visualizations, presumably for things that people often ask it about. And yeah, it's like a little mini app where you have ways to visualize the actual logic behind equations and so on. And related to that, actually, Anthropix, Claude, can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now. So the visuals here are gonna be inserted in line within the chat, and it appears to be more general. So it is a little mini program that it's creating for …”View more
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ChatGPT and Claude have revolutionized how we learn by introducing interactive visuals for math and science concepts. ChatGPT now offers dynamic explanations through 70 pre-built visualizations, while Claude enhances conversations with real-time charts and diagrams. This shift not only makes learning more engaging but also addresses previous gaps in educational tools.
Last Week in AI·#237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!·Mar 16, 2026
“… like you need more money? I feel financially secure, but I feel like I need more money. It's so funny. I had these long discussions with Gemini and ChatGPT and Gronk. They know everything about me. They know every single one of my investments. Seriously, they and I update it on a regular basis. They know exactly where I stand. And I've gone through every single tax strategy to be able to buy a house that I want that I think would be a dream house what's that what do you mean what's that can you say like what that would be oh price range wise or what oh yeah oh no i mean i want a house in las vegas …”“… It's walkable. Like, that's what I craved. I crave a place with parks and shops that's safe and actually laws are enforced. And that's, you know, where I'm excited to be. So it's more that than the house. Do you feel financially secure? Do you feel like you need more money? I feel financially secure, but I feel like I need more money. It's so funny. I had these long discussions with Gemini and ChatGPT and Gronk. They know everything about me. They know every single one of my investments. Seriously, they and I update it on a regular basis. They know exactly where I stand. And I've gone through every single tax strategy to be able to buy a house that I want that I think would be a dream house what's that what do you mean what's that can you say like what that would be oh price range wise or what oh yeah oh no i mean i want a house in las vegas with a view of the strip yeah that's completely private where all you see from the front my vision is just all you see is a gate so you're going you don't want to see the house and then with a yard yeah yeah you with it with a big yard with a view of the strip uh and those tend to be about seven to ten and me doing chunky It is. And so then it is, …”View more
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A dream home in Las Vegas with a view of the strip sounds idyllic, but it requires serious financial planning. The speaker shares their vision of a peaceful, private space surrounded by nature, yet acknowledges needing 3-5 more years of income to comfortably afford it. This highlights the balance between aspiration and financial security in achieving homeownership.
The Iced Coffee Hour·Confronting ‘Wannabe Dave Ramsey’ For Exploiting Poor People! | Caleb Hammer·Mar 15, 2026
“… you've thought about this before. Any advice on what I should do? Yeah. And when you mentioned that a lot of people ask you things they could ask ChatGPT, I'm thinking now before asking people to become your mentor and ask answer this question create a project with all their knowledge base and ask that project you you can have a virtual mentor exactly tell ai to uh you could dump a book dump an interview dump a transcript and create a project around an individual yeah i do that a lot ai is my strategic partner 100 really really helpful but i let me also mention this this separate chapter on …”“… I think you approach people with recognition of who they are and this authenticity. I wouldn't be overly programmed as you go in and with a smaller ask to start your relationship. Hey, I'm working on this problem. There's these two paths. I'm sure you've thought about this before. Any advice on what I should do? Yeah. And when you mentioned that a lot of people ask you things they could ask ChatGPT, I'm thinking now before asking people to become your mentor and ask answer this question create a project with all their knowledge base and ask that project you you can have a virtual mentor exactly tell ai to uh you could dump a book dump an interview dump a transcript and create a project around an individual yeah i do that a lot ai is my strategic partner 100 really really helpful but i let me also mention this this separate chapter on peers because this is my favorite chapter in”View more
Ridealong summary
Most people aim too high when seeking mentors, often overlooking valuable connections closer to their level. Instead, create a digital profile of aspirational mentors by studying their work and insights, which can boost your confidence and clarify your goals. Then, approach potential mentors with specific questions to build authentic relationships, rather than simply asking them to be your mentor outright.
Silicon Valley Girl·$8B Investor: The Career Moves AI Can't Replace — Bill Gurley on Future of Work·Mar 13, 2026
“… perhaps you don't agree with, well, I'm not doing my job at all. Thinking is the essence of it. Now, I've been doing this since well, well before ChatGPT. I mean, my last book came out in 2021. I talked about GPT-3 in it. There was no AI of any meaningful capacity or capability to help me with it. When ChatGPT launched, I realized immediately that this was going to change the way I worked and I started to play around pretty quickly. Of course, over the last three years, the tools have become, well, I mean, amazing. There have been at least three significant paradigm shifts. Of course, the first …”“… jobs. But you can say that a job like mine, which deals with ideas and data and connecting them together, is really all about that. And if I don't think new things, things that are challenging to you, things that perhaps you agree with, things that perhaps you don't agree with, well, I'm not doing my job at all. Thinking is the essence of it. Now, I've been doing this since well, well before ChatGPT. I mean, my last book came out in 2021. I talked about GPT-3 in it. There was no AI of any meaningful capacity or capability to help me with it. When ChatGPT launched, I realized immediately that this was going to change the way I worked and I started to play around pretty quickly. Of course, over the last three years, the tools have become, well, I mean, amazing. There have been at least three significant paradigm shifts. Of course, the first one was ChatGPT itself. The second was the arrival of reasoning models. And I think the third has been the arrival of these long context tool using systems like Claude 4.5 and Claude Cowork. They are so much more than ChatGPT running on GPT 3.5 was three years ago. And I suppose the question is, how's that changed my process of thinking? In what …”View more
Ridealong summary
Cognitive surrender, the uncritical abdication of reasoning, is a growing concern as AI tools become more integrated into our lives. While cognitive offloading can aid reasoning, the allure of AI might lead to a dangerous reliance on external assistance. Reflecting on my own thinking process, I've realized that AI has transformed my approach to research and analysis in unexpected ways, raising questions about the quality of my thinking.
