Because Sam Altman hates opening his laptop, OpenAI is merging with iPhone guy Jony Ive's design firm in the name of some mysterious new ChatGPT-enabled consumer products: Alex and Emily go full Mystery Science Theater and dissect the announcement video. Plus how tech billionaires like Sam Altman mythologize San Francisco while their money makes it less livable for everyone else.
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive are merging (Video)
Emplacedness, real estate, and gentrification in San Francisco
Anthropic? More like anthropomorphic
Karen Hao on her new book "Empire of AI" in conversation with Alex and Emily
Fresh AI Hell:
Don't use ChatGPT to summon demons
AI prompts accidentally left in novels
"AI" tutors are teaching fentanyl recipes
xAI's data center polluting Memphis with unpermitted methane generators
Gemini's on Bluesky - block it
Family uses "AI" generated avatar to give victim impact statement
The market for "AI friends"? Lonely losers
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