Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”
and rattled businessJean Leon /Android Headlines:Anthropic Roasts OpenAI Promising Ad-Free Claude AI ExperienceTimothy Beck Werth /Mashable:Anthropic Super Bowl LX ads mock ChatGPT
Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers
There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning orb …
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
Sources: Anthropic taps law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and held preliminary talks with big investment banks
AI start-up picks law firm Wilson Sonsini for what could be one of the largest public offerings ever
How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w... Piyush Mittal / @piyushmittal : Brazil...
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW
The new sites will boost Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.
Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business
Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake — TikTok's U.S. business …
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fan...
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more
including one of the card networks the whole thing is designed to replace—and “neutrality.” [image] Brij Singh / @brij : Facebook's Libra turned out to be a strangely “successful” ...
The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks
this is a big positive (i.e., Congressional staffers had started disparagingly calling this the “novel activities squashing program.” … Dan McGonegle : The day was always coming wh...
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad
1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested
bsky.app/profile/wire... [embedded post] @akhilrao : i feel like i've known Murati is at a startup called Thinking Machine Labs for months. maybe idk what “stealth” means [embedde...
Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses
Start-up named after the dragon's mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — A group of tech billionaires led by Palmer Luckey …
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19
That's what Klarna just reported. Largely thanks to smart AI integration. — https://lnkd.in/... … Georg Zoeller : Klarna is a front runner at replacing humans with AI and then q...
DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze High-Flyer's DeepSeek, including two for how High-Flyer cut training costs and one on what data it may have used
“Wait, how much are we spending on research of little/no utility to Meta proper?” — “Wait, what? How much? How many Stanford PhDs did LeCun hire to endlessly fellate his ego?” ...