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OpenAI ditches non-profit board, will spin off as venture capital lottery ticket

fresh money in, and mira’s bouncing

Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe.

Is there a compendium of Elon+Twitter badness?

a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime?

A radical idea - stop talking about things that don't exist like they do

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine the ghost of your grandma, owned by tech bros, replaying your whatsapp convos and shilling for whoever pays — forever"

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024

Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX

Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft

The Bitcoin bros who want to crowdfund a new country

Microsoft to reopen 3 mile island to power AI

How to use AI for medical scans: just steal the training data

BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations

Why wordfreq will not be updated - AI spam

Kubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraud

OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”

"The Subprime AI Crisis" - Ed Zitron on the bubble's impending collapse

NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI