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OpenAI fired safety executive Ryan Beiermeister after she opposed AI erotica
“OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives on the grounds of sexual discrimination after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI Erotica in its ChatGPT product. The fast-growing artificial intelligence company fired the executiv…”
Luria: OpenAI is a negative gross margin business
“Open AI is a negative gross margin business. They claim they're not, but they are right. Which is to say it costs them more to answer your chat GPT question than they make revenue from you.”
Luria: OpenAI won't make it if it builds datacenters and chips
“If they go down the current path, over committing, Deciding that they have to build their own data centers, they need their own hardware, they need their own chips, they won't make it.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI has $1.4T in financial obligations and 30GW compute commitments
“OpenAI has 1.4 trillion worth of financial obligation. And it's made commitments to use 30 gigawatts of data center capacity. But OpenAI's revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and we already have eight hundred million people using ChatGPT.”
AI Models Will Lack Reliable Information Beyond 2025 Without Creator Compensation
“The information they're pulling in, it is literally going to stop showing up on the internet. And it's like chat TPT will give you good advice for a 20, 25 and earlier, but nothing beyond that.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI inflated 'doing' stats to conceal lack of agent usage
“I think what we're seeing in the numbers here is the vast majority of activity within ChatGPT is really thought partner. It is a thought partner tool, and the agentic stuff, of course, is super early, but they didn't want maybe the numbers, and this is maybe s…”
Kantrowitz: Grammarly will go extinct as LLMs replace grammar tools
“And here's my hot take on Grammarly. I think they're going to go extinct. I think I wouldn't call them a rapper because they were around before large language models, but all this logic that they painstakingly built into their program and all the AI developmen…”
Bender: ChatGPT only mimics language form and fails genuine information needs
“What ChatGPT can do is it can mimic human language use across many different domains. And so it can produce the form of a poem. It can produce the form of a travel itinerary. It can produce the form of a Wikipedia page on the history of some event. It is an ex…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Projects 100x Revenue Surge by 2029 Driven by ChatGPT
“Chat GPT is what open AI expects to lead its revenue which it expects to increase, it expects revenue, its revenue to increase a hundred fold by 20, 29. And the bulk of that revenue is going to be coming from ChatGPT according to OpenAI's projections”
Kantrowitz: Broad AI chatbots will not achieve long-term success without AGI
“It's just not a model for a product. That has long-term success if we don't reach general, ah, generative, ah, sorry, general artificial intelligence.”
Wood: AWS customers saw their proprietary IP output back by ChatGPT
“We've seen actual customers see their own IP come back to them from the model, and that is terrifying to enterprise customers, where the IP is the crown jewels”
LeCun: Most core ChatGPT techniques originated at Google and Meta
“Most of the technology underlying techniques used in ChatGPT have been invented at Google and Meta.”
LeCun: ChatGPT is not a major step toward human-level AI
“The short answer is it's not a, Particularly big step towards you know, more like human, human level intelligence.”
Roy: Declaring AGI has arrived poses a massive danger to OpenAI
“Do you know what, to me, what actually the greatest danger in the world to open AI is, is to say AGI is here. And then everyone goes to ChatGPT, types in something, and gets a lukewarm response that isn't quite right. And then suddenly, I actually think that i…”
Cahn: Meta and Google pursue AI because ad models face existential disruption
“Part of why I think Meta and Google are so all in AI is their businesses are the most at risk from AI. Like if we all move to ChatGPT, if we all move, if our time eyeballs move to these other interfaces, Then these ad driven businesses have a lot of questions.”
Institutions are to blame for AI cheating on outdated take-home exams
“To do stuff in the exact same way you've always done, and then say it's a problem given how much things have changed. I think that reflects more on the institution and the teacher than the students. Of course they're gonna do it. I don't think it's cheating in…”
Brockman: The ultimate AI product interface is zero interface
“You want almost no interface. You want no product, right? You want this to be like, what's the interface between you and me, right? Just being able to talk to a persistent entity of some form that's able to go and accomplish goals for you.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Averaged 905M WAU, Missing 1B Year-End Target
“OpenAI's weekly active users for the quarter averaged about nine hundred five million users. Although the company hit about nine hundred twenty million weekly active users in February, the lower average figure for the quarter implies that usage during the rest…”
OpenAI missed internal goal of 1 billion ChatGPT users by 2025
“OpenAI, Had a goal to hit a billion ChatGPT users by the end of the year in 2025. It missed it.”
Alex Kantrowitz cites Apptopia data showing consumer AI app growth declining
“Daily active user growth across all AI, AI apps. So that includes perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world. ChatGPT, growth is not just tailing off, it's down. So you can see that, you know, while like the space is growing overall the growth is, is …”
Brockman: Friend Used ChatGPT to Find Treatment After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
“I have a friend who used ChatGPT to understand different treatments for his cancer, and that he was told by doctors that he was terminal, that there was nothing they could do for him. He used ChatGPT to actually research a bunch of different ideas, and he was …”
Brockman: ChatGPT Image Generation Uses GPT Architecture, Not Diffusion Models
“The reason we're able to do that is because it's not actually on the world model, like diffusion model tech, tech branch. It's actually based on the GPT architecture, and so there, even though it's a different data distribution, the actual core technology at t…”
Nvidia CEO calls OpenClaw the biggest milestone since ChatGPT
“Jensen Wong, the NVIDIA CEO, happens to be driving the whole thing. Four and a half trillion dollar company, which is crazy. Just said that OpenClaw is the most important thing after ChatGPT.”
Foundation AI labs face constraints, creating massive gaps for independent startups
“These labs have so many resources, but they are still constrained. They're constrained on, like, compute. They're constrained on inference. They're constrained on people. Every second building, like, a new creative model is a second they could have spent on a …”
AI chatbots will become memory-sharing authentication layers, not super apps
“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 whe…”
Manual software onboarding will disappear in two to five years
“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”
Adler: OpenAI Left Delusion-Detection Safety Classifiers Undeployed on Shelf
“My concern with the relationships is less so the relationships themselves and more that open AI had a bunch of important safety tooling to make this less harmful that they left on the shelf. So for example, they had classifiers to tell when users were really s…”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity AI Is Done Against Google Gemini and ChatGPT
“I think it's done. I mean, I don't see how it really serves a purpose outside of you know, Different than what you could do with Gemini or Chachi.”
Bret Taylor: Personal AI agents will be the internet's front door
“I think ChatGPT is already the front door for the internet for many people, and I would say, if you look at, like, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the like, I think your personal AI agent will be your front door to the internet.”
OpenAI Plans to Test Ads Inside ChatGPT
“OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world's most widely used AI products.”
Altman: ChatGPT's Market Lead Will Increase Over Time
“ChatGPT is still by far the dominant chatbot in the market, and I expect that lead to increase, not decrease over time.”
Altman: AI will remember every detail of a user's life
“AI is definitely gonna be able to do that. And we actually talk a lot about this. Like right now, memory is still very crude, very early. We're in like the, you know, the GPT-II era of memory, but what it's gonna be like when it really does remember every deta…”
OpenAI Plans to Launch ChatGPT Adult Mode in Q1 2026
“This is from Wired. Fiji on the call said the company now plans to roll out its adult mode in the first quarter of twenty-twenty-six. Altman had previously indicated users over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.”
Roy: Google's vast distribution makes Gemini 3 a lethal threat to OpenAI
“What makes this so scary for ChatGPT is Google's distribution, because Claude going consumer is, like, non-existent when someone has to sign up, find about it, it's a whole marketing exercise, but If Gemini three fully replaces ChatGPT or is as good, that is r…”
Medium Will Only Pay Writers for Lived Human Experiences, Not AI Text
“The thing that we want to pay for to make sure it exists on the internet is your real life lessons. And this idea of paying you to spend 15 seconds generating a ChatGPT transcript, Just not even doesn't even make sense to us as a worthy thing to pay for”
ChatGPT Uses Em Dashes So Frequently Because It Trained on Medium
“I'm saying it's because of medium.
Absolutely.
It's because we've in part, we popularized it in other parts of the internet too, but the medium corpus is very, very deep in those.
And so, right.
So when you hear, oh, this must've been written by AI because…”
Heitzman: FirstMark sees no sustainable consumer AI startups, only ChatGPT wrappers
“So we've found sadly, that, you know, we haven't seen this wave of startups that we believe are sustainable. So there's actually been a handful of startups that are Wrappers on ChatGPT that are maybe a little bit better at travel. They might be a little bit be…”
Siegler: OpenAI must build Google Cloud before Google builds ChatGPT
“And so my headline idea was basically open AI needs to build Google cloud before Google can build chat GPT.”
Maintaining leadership in AI coding models is existential for Anthropic's business
“And I think that Anthropic, you know, for OpenAI, I mean, coding models are just a small piece of their business. ChatGPT is kind of the big tuna for them, but for Anthropic, I mean, this is existential, like they need to lead in coding and this is their attem…”
Levie: AI lab losses are a strategic choice to subsidize market dominance
“And the losses are a choice, to be clear. Like, that's very obvious. Like, they're choosing to lose that money. They're doing it, ah, for a strategic reason. You know, that, that's at least their decision. The strategic reason is, is that this is such a valuab…”
Roy: Google is indexing and searching shared ChatGPT conversations
“Apparently Google is now indexing shared to chat GPT conversations and they're searchable”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reaches $12B annualized revenue and 700M ChatGPT weekly users
“OpenAI hits twelve billion in annualized revenue, breaks seven hundred million ChatGPT weekly active users. This is from Bloomberg. They roughly doubled their revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching twelve billion in annualized revenue says Ope…”
Siegler: Apple must replace Siri with an external large language model
“They've got to replace Siri with something else, whether it be ChatGPT, or Claude, or Google Gemini, or one of the other products, because this is just really table stakes stuff that they should, you know, they've been working on Siri for 15 plus years”
Kantrowitz: MIT Study Found ChatGPT Users Showed Lowest Brain Engagement
“The study divided 54 subjects, 18 to thirty-nine-year-olds,
From the Boston area into three groups and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google search engine, and nothing at all.
Researchers used an EEG.
I guess that's, yeah,
it's …”
Kantrowitz: Judge orders OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT chats for NYT lawsuit
“The New York Times is telling OpenAI, has gotten a judge to rule in favor of this position, that OpenAI has to preserve its chats, because people who are using OpenAI's ChatGPT to, ah, go around the New York Times paywall, ah, may delete those chats. And there…”
Wikipedia is effectively finished now that ChatGPT has eclipsed its traffic
“To me, that's basically like Wikipedia is done.”
Kantrowitz: Shopping inside ChatGPT will become default behavior for many
“When you have such a deep relationship with ChatGPT, what are you going to do? You're going to trust what it says the same way that you trust Amazon Prime, and that trust is going to make you want to, instead of going to other websites, just buy right within C…”
Kantrowitz: AI Memory Will Cause Users to Feel Love for Chatbots
“It is going to make so many people Feel like they've developed friendships with these bots, companions, companionship with these bots, and even love towards these bots, which I spoke about with Mustafa Suleiman a couple of weeks ago.”