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drama 2026-04-12

Someone Threw a Firebomb at Sam Altman's House. He Responded With a Blog Post.

The attack was real. The response was a narrative operation.

money 2026-04-12

Anthropic Hit $30B ARR. The Revenue Race Is Now About Lawyers.

Claude didn't win the benchmark race. It won the compliance race. That turns out to be worth more.

culture 2026-04-12

Karpathy Says There's a Growing Gap in AI Understanding. He Called It a Perception Problem. It's Actually a Pricing Problem.

Most AI discourse is running on sampled data from two different products. One is vastly better. Most people cannot access it.

drama 2026-04-12

Ronan Farrow Spent Months Reporting on Sam Altman. The New Yorker Published It the Day Before Someone Threw a Firebomb at His House.

The 2023 board firing was the evidence. The question the profile cannot answer is why nothing changed.

culture 2026-04-12

OpenAI Just Bought the CI Pipeline for Half the Python Ecosystem

Cirrus CI shuts down June 1. scipy and PostgreSQL have 51 days to find an alternative. OpenAI gets the engineers.

governance 2026-04-12

OpenAI Bought the Show That Covered OpenAI

TBPN was SportsCenter for Silicon Valley. Now it's an in-house studio for the team playing the game.

money 2026-04-12

OpenAI Wants Regular People to Buy Its IPO. That's Not Generosity.

Retail investors broke a bank's system trying to get in. At $852 billion, there's not much left for them.

drama 2026-04-12

Three of OpenAI's Top Infrastructure Executives Just Left for Meta

Stargate is a $500B commitment. The people who knew how to build it just walked out.