why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Contradicted
The New York Times blocks OpenAI's Atlas browser bot
“The New York times seems to block it. So if you want to go to NY times.com and then like ask the bot in the side panel of the browser, To, like, navigate the site for you, or to speak with it about the stories there. Just can't. Can't do it.”
Assertion Supported
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…”
Assertion Contradicted
Siegler: OpenAI's Atlas Browser Refuses to Summarize New York Times Articles
“If you go to a New York times story in Atlas and you say within the Atlas native chat GPT that's baked into it. If you say like summarize this page, it refuses to do it because they don't have an agreement on the content.”
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Raised $65B at a $900B Pre-Money Valuation
“It is going to, it raised sixty-five billion dollars in financing that values it at nine hundred billion pre-money.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: Medvi has not actually made $1.8 billion in sales
“Regular listeners will know of my hatred of ARR as a term. We have no idea what that means. They have not made 1.8 billion dollars.”
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus with $6.2 billion in funding
“He has started this company called Project Prometheus. It is being funded by six point, with 6.2 billion in funding, according to the Times, making it one of the most well-financed early stage startups in the world.”
Insight
New York Times Reporters Are Insulated From Direct Traffic Monetization
“A reporter at the New York Times is insulated from that. Like, they have a salary. Their livelihood doesn't go up or down. Like, there's a certain degree to which traffic is a coin of the realm institutionally, but they don't have, like, a direct monetary ince…”
Opinion
Ramaswamy: NYT and WSJ are the only successful open-web newspaper businesses
“The sort of two credible pure information businesses, newspapers that have come out of that are the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. And everybody else is a little bit off and also ran.”