Tag: openai
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Fully Synergized Paradigms – Related to your interests, Monday sweep
The Links Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs – “The results revealed a troubling paradox. Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and ‘visionary,’ but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid…
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If OpenAI fails, the most likely mode is the Yahoo path: not a dramatic collapse but a slow fade into irrelevance through a thousand mediocre product extensions. ChatGPT becomes a utility everyone uses but nobody pays premium for. Enterprise goes to companies with better compliance stories. The consumer product goes ad-supported. Revenue grows but margins…
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AI Is Normal Now – The Enterprise Is Not
Original Content Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms – I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it. Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
Codex App – OpenAI’s Claude Code competitor. U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives – Big revealed preferences tests coming up here. Related, the investor angle: “Europe is hitting the kills witch on some U.S. tech.” AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen – ‘The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS…
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Debating AI dicks is pointless
He’s never been a fan of AI: I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs…this is still a crowd that is explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.” Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project…
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“It’s a birth scene, not a boss scene.” ChatGPT 5.2 analyzes The Spider-God’s Bride.
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“Oracle’s predicament is more acute than the hyperscalers’. Its business is smaller, its pockets shallower and its lot hitched more tightly to the fate of a single customer, OpenAI, which accounts for over half its $500bn in pledged revenue.” 🔗 Oracle and the hard truths about software
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That’d be an unexpected source for a data leak. 🔗 OpenAI: The New York Times is forcing us to turn over 20 million ChatGPT conversations
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AI use in banking, BBVA
The use of OpenAI tools is becoming widespread among employees who, with more than 4,000 active GPTs and an average use of 4.1 days per week, claim that it saves them nearly three hours a week. This impact translates into time-savings of up to 80% for certain specific tasks, such as report writing or risk…
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civilization changing, or just a better ad network?
My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe. Software that can think and learn will do more and more of the work that people now do. Even more power will shift from labor to capital. If public policy doesn’t adapt…
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Working as designed
‘allowing for controversial yet eye-catching content like AI celebrities, OpenAI is borrowing from a playbook perfected by social media companies such as Meta: Do whatever it takes to get users on the app and ask forgiveness later, said Thales Teixeira, a business professor at the University of California at San Diego. “First you grow, and…
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“The context window is a public good.” Skill authoring best practices,Claude Docs
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monetization efforts
Sources say that Simo has recently been meeting with potential candidates, including some of her former Facebook colleagues, to lead a new team that will be tasked with bringing ads to ChatGPT. The role will oversee all monetization efforts across OpenAI, including subscriptions. 🔗 OpenAI is looking for a head of ads for ChatGPT
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Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships – “If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact.” // A good overview of updating OSS software versus a one-time…
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“cash incinerators” OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets
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ChatGPT uses, a survey
🤖 What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. – OpenAI’s first usage study reveals ChatGPT’s massive growth, demographic shifts, and main use cases. // More concise list of uses here. // And, more from El Reg, including the conclusion from the paper: The paper concludes “users currently appear to derive value…
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10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most? – Feels like it’s primarily about supporting programming, not doing things in apps. // Not sure about the methodology and source for this chart, tho.
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The Business of ChatGPT – Revenue and such numbers circa. August, 2025.
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Microsoft is pushing Copilot, but everyone just wants ChatGPT – The ChatGPT brand is strong: “OpenAI has said it has 3 million paying enterprise customers, and that number is growing fast. Microsoft told employees that “multiple dozens” of customers have over 100,000 paying users, which would work out to a floor of 2.4 million paying…
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OpenAI hits $10 billion in annualized revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth – “OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.”