President Donald Trump gave a speech to 2025 graduates of the University of Alabama on Thursday night, where he rambled about tariffs, the so-called “golden age” of America, and trans athletes. But it was Trump’s comments about tech CEOs that really shone. You see, Trump knows that all of the “internet people,” as he called […]
Why the Hell Is OpenAI Building an X Clone?
Why is an AI company pretending that we’re living in 2022 and working on a new social media platform? OpenAI has money, everyone’s attention, and its iOS app is still the number one download on Apple’s App Store. It doesn’t really need to get into the social media business for cash (most platforms struggle to […]
OpenAI Is Reportedly Building Its Own Social Media Platform
OpenAI is reportedly developing its own social media platform. The Verge, which has broken the news, describes the project as “X-like” in nature. Little is known about the new site beyond the fact that it exists. The Verge writes that the company is working on an “internal prototype” that involves a “feed” feature and may […]
San Francisco Is Getting Its Own Council of Tech Oligarchs
Last November, the people of San Francisco elected Daniel Lurie—one of the wealthy heirs to the Levi Strauss fortune—to be their new mayor. Now, Lurie seems to be turning to people like himself (that is, people with a lot of money) to make pivotal decisions around how to “revitalize” the heart of Silicon Valley. The […]
Sam Altman’s AI Short Story Sucks, and He Doesn’t Know Why
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s job is to talk up the promise of AI, whether its capacity to destroy the job market, destroy the world, or merely how well ChatGPT can put words in front of other words. Like most tech bros who read science fiction and imagine themselves creating the “torment nexus” of their dreams, […]
OpenAI Says It Will Make Its $200 Deep Research Model Available for Free
OpenAI will make its Deep Research model available to users on ChatGPT’s free tier soon, according to an X post by CEO Sam Altman. Deep Research is the colloquial name for large language models that use a “test-time” computing method to produce in-depth, detailed research reports. These reports can take anywhere from 30 minutes up […]
Elon Musk Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion in Unsolicited Bid: Report
Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have made an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion for a controlling interest in the non-profit that operates OpenAI, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Musk and his attorney did not immediately respond to questions from Gizmodo on Monday but told the Wall Street Journal […]
Remember When Nanotech Was the Next Big Thing?
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar. In the early 2000s, after the collapse of the dotcom bubble, a new technology was set to change humanity and line inventors pockets. Venture capitalists invested billions in the tech. “This field will provide the biggest and most important breakthrough of the current century. It will cause […]