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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 11h

talked with OpenAI's Greg Brockman about Stargate, the deal with AMD, and an AI bubble sources.news/p/openai-sta...

Q&A: OpenAI's Stargate Man

"We see the fundamentals, and we were investing heavily in those." My conversation with Greg Brockman at OpenAI DevDay.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 1d

Notes from today’s big OpenAI event, including what Sam Altman and Jony Ive talked about plus a bunch of juicy tidbits from a post-keynote exec Q&A sources.news/p/chatgpt-ea...

ChatGPT eats the world

Notes from DevDay, featuring Q&A with Sam Altman and OpenAI execs.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 7d

wrote about using the new Sora app sources.news/p/openai-mad...

OpenAI made AI Vine

Keep reading for my chat with Daniel Ek about stepping down as CEO of Spotify and some good links.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 12d

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3p1KZvk...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@accesspod

Figma CEO Dylan Field on tech's biggest IPO of the year

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 12d

We've got the one and only @zoink.bsky.social on the second episode of ACCESS!

We discuss:
- Figma's IPO and what's next
- MCP / how he's thinking about AI
- The future of design

Out everywhere you can get podcasts

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 13d

SOURCES: OpenAI is planning to bring ads to ChatGPT.

Also: In a message to employees, Sam Altman says he wants 250 gigawatts of compute by 2033.

He calls OpenAI's team behind Stargate a "core bet" like research / robotics.

"Doing this right will cost trillions." sources.news/p/openai-ads...

OpenAI is looking for a head of ads

Fidji Simo is on the hunt for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including bringing advertising to ChatGPT. Plus: Sam Altman's internal note to employees about Stargate.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 17d

Gosh I’m so sorry :(

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 17d

Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight

I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-goog...

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 20d

First issue of Sources is out!

It’s a deep dive into the (very cool) new Meta Ray-Bans. They’ve got a display, neural band that feels like sci fi, & suggest a lot about where things are headed

Feat. my interview w/t Zuck (full convo airs on the Access podcast tomorrow) sources.news/p/meta-ray-b...

Inside Meta’s display glasses with Zuck

I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to try Meta’s impressive new Ray-Ban Display glasses and its neural band.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21d

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21d

dangerous

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21d

More about Sources: sources.news/p/introducin...

Follow Access: link.chtbl.com/access

And special thanks to Sara Fischer at Axios for covering the news: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Introducing Sources

Alex Heath's new publication about the tech industry's inside conversation.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 21d

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social.

The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 22d

big week

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and the viral content machine that sprang to life in the wake of his shooting — and how this time, even people running the country are partaking in the churn.
www.theverge.com/analysis/776...

How Charlie Kirk’s death fed the content machine

Moments after the news broke, the content started

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Sep 5

also: AI tendies are a booming

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Sep 5

monopoly business is a booming www.theverge.com/command-line...

Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

Now, the two giants are collaborating on AI.

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · Sep 2

And Apple stock's up 4% after hours because it can keep collecting free money from Google in the search deal.

CNBC @cnbc.com · Sep 2

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling comes nearly one year after he ruled Google illegally held a monopololy in internet search.

Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules

The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

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The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 22

The power shift inside OpenAI

Sam Altman wants to focus on getting more GPUs, not running ChatGPT.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Aug 19

“It’s never been a better time to be a telegenic nerd, and never a worse time to be only good at delivering clean copy.”
www.deezlinks.com/p/media-comp...

media companies want reporters and writers to become more like creators, yet not TOO creator-like

It’s a good time to be a telegenic journalist…

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Jake Kastrenakes @jake--k.bsky.social · Aug 15

. @alexeheath.com sat down with Sam Altman for a big, spicy interview:

-Altman says they "totally screwed up" some of the gpt5 rollout
-He thinks they'll overtake IG + FB in web traffic
-OpenAI has "better models" they can't offer!?
-Altman has stopped using Google

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Sam Altman on ChatGPT 5 backlash and the future of OpenAI

The CEO of ChatGPT thinks we’re in an AI bubble.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Aug 15

🤣 what I get for filing at 5am

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Aug 15

had dinner with sam altman last night and he uh, said some stuff www.theverge.com/command-line...

Sam Altman on ChatGPT 5 backlash and the future of OpenAI

The CEO of ChatGPT thinks we’re in an AI bubble.

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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · Aug 14

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.

AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · Aug 13

From my interview with OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT:

It was surprising to see the “level of attachment” people had to 4o. “It’s not just change that is difficult for folks, it’s also the fact that people can have such a strong feeling about the personality of a model.” www.theverge.com/openai/75853...

ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash

The head of ChatGPT says ‘we have to give people some level of predictability when there’s a major change.’

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