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...olicy promises. Not perfect, but radically better. This should be table stakes! OpenAI, Anthropic, every frontier lab: make this the new baseline. This is like what Apple did with Private Cloud Compute, but with a frontier model. Anthro...
OpenAI is ensnaring the whole tech industry into one too-big-to-fail[hc] quagmire. The US's GDP is dependent on the AI bubble not bursting. All of tech is l...
OpenAI is over-levered as all hell. A confidence game, but boy are they confident! They're executing strongly on top of a strong hand, but it's nowhere near...
...ot owned by one powerful company and it consumes all software. This is a future OpenAI is betting on. Let's hope they don't achieve it![hz]
If the model is the product then OpenAI already won and we should all just bow down to them now and save some time. If that's true, unless someone else can somehow get an order of magnitude...
...mail tab and it leaks your Gmail" Michael Nielsen: "In today's version of this: OpenAI is going to have a web browser. But, unlike Chrome or Firefox or Safari, they're going to have a person (i.e., an AI) personally watch everything you...
...down. Which is how society does it, but not typically this fast. It's also what OpenAI is doing in its product development process.
...le is because they were profitable and there was no one else growing like them. OpenAI is trying to do the same kind of playbook, but without the necessary preconditions. They're nowhere near profitable. They're already replicating any ...
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardra...
OpenAI is looking at a Log in with ChatGPT offering. A crucial feature: businesses that use it can subsidize inference for users. This is a classic aggregat...
...quality ones that are easy for an application layer to swap between. That's why OpenAI is desperately vertically integratin[ja]g and storing state, to avoid being a swappable component lower in the stack.
Karan Sharma, PM at OpenAI, is dreaming about AI Home Cooked Software. Home-cooked software has to happen in a personal kitchen, not some factory kitchen owned by a corporation...
I disagree with Stratechery's take that OpenAI has a Windows Play. An open system can be on top of a proprietary system if the proprietary system can't cut someone else off on top. Open access to ...
An interesting economics paper about why OpenAI is moving so strongly into vertical integration. When there's a monopolist whose product is used as an input to a downstream product, they'll vertica...
Is optimizing for sycophancy intentional at OpenAI?[h] Retention you must optimize for, otherwise your product won't continue to exist. Retention means "a thing people like using."[i] That means that ...
...asking an LLM sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI? Using ChatGPT vs using a service that uses the same model via the API are orders of magnitude different risk. In the former, OpenAI explicitly reser...
OpenAI is climbing the chatbot hill They're in hill-climbing mode on that hill. It's a hill they'll top out on. That makes sense, it's the steepest consumer...
... PromptLock ransomware: "The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss-20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes. PromptLock leverages Lua scripts generated from hard...
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police You could argue the LLM provider shouldn't even have the queries to hand ...
...to be disabled by default so the user had to pay to use that carrier's map app. OpenAI is moving to control the last-mile UX. They'll likely move to "throttling" maneuvers, for example only giving access to the premium model in their 1P...