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OpenAI

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has surpassed a $1 trillion dollar market valuation.
William D. Cohan • September 1, 2024

Buffett’s Four-Comma Club

News and notes from the Wall Street hype machine as Berkshire Hathaway hits $1 trillion, Sam Altman’s OpenAI trades at 33x (!) revenue, and Two Sigma continues to flirt with disaster.
Baratunde Thurston • January 15, 2024
A.I. & Its Times
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On OpenAI eating the internet, the lawsuit heard ‘round the world, and a blueprint for detente with the media and entertainment business.
Eriq Gardner • January 8, 2024
Will OpenAI Eat The New York Times?
The New York Times is trying to sell a court on the notion that ChatGPT, the chatbot operated by Sam Altman’s OpenAI, is a plagiarist, mimicking their unique expression of facts.
Gaming out the motivations, the countermoves, and the likely endgame of the Times-OpenAI legal fracas.
When Sam Altman’s OpenAI launched ChatGPT, it quickly became the leading brand for artificial intelligence. Is that singular reign is about to come to an end?
Baratunde Thurston • January 1, 2024
An A.I. Explosion & D.E.I. Blowback
Ten predictions for the new year, from internet enjunkification to LLM lawsuits, boardroom de-wokening, a green energy boom, and more.
A group of aides with close ties to Sam Altman, the OpenAI founder, quietly launched a new super PAC to boost Phillips
Theodore Schleifer • December 8, 2023
Silicon Valley Makes Its Anti-Biden Move
A group of tech insiders has quietly raised a half-million bucks to launch a new super PAC backing Dean Phillips, the long-shot Democratic presidential challenger.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is a strange beast, with a Russian nesting doll structure containing a for-profit company inside a nonprofit organization.
Baratunde Thurston • December 3, 2023
Sam Altman’s Pandora’s Box
Reflections on the anniversary of ChatGPT: the Q star breakthrough, Altman’s ouster, A.I. red lines, and why capital is stronger than containment.
Not only would a Jeff Zucker deal potentially kill the auction for the publications, it might also allow RedBird IMI to get the assets more cheaply than if they were bid up in a formal process.
William D. Cohan • November 29, 2023
Zucker’s Structure Wrinkle & OpenAI Open Questions
News and notes emanating from the finance-media-tech vortex: insights into Jeff Zucker and RedBird IMI’s debt-for-equity Telegraph offer and Microsoft’s governance peccadilloes.
Former OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman speaks during an event at Keio University on June 12, 2023, in Tokyo.
Theodore Schleifer • November 21, 2023
Altman Alternative Facts
What Sam said at Stanford when confronted about ChatGPT. What people think of Sam’s effective-altruist board member Helen Toner. And what the hell happened at OpenAI.
Sam Altman has some eclectic views that don’t fit neatly into progressive dogma—but like most liberals in tech, he has been deeply unnerved by the real and growing threat of a second Donald Trump presidency.
Theodore Schleifer • November 7, 2023
President of the Biden-Skeptic Billionaires
Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, has taken a profound interest in testing which Democrat could best challenge Trump in 2024. After talking with many of the party’s top operatives, he became convinced it was not Joe Biden. But… Dean Phillips?
OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman, announcing ChatGPT’s integration with Microsoft Bing.
Baratunde Thurston • March 5, 2023
Me, Myself, & A.I.
Billions of dollars are rushing into another high-tech hype cycle, this time around ChatGPT and other large language models. This time, it’s different.