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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT is starting to look less like a chatbot and more like...an operating system www.wired.com/story/openai... latest from me & @willknight.bsky.social

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

This really gets at the scale of OpenAI's ambitions, a world in which it's not just a chatbot living inside a browser but an entire platform unto itself. from @willknight.bsky.social @laurengoode.bsky.social and @thiccreese.bsky.social

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operation System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

www.wired.com

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers shows that OAI believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble. The deal also gives OpenAI the option to acquire a 10 percent stake in AMD www.wired.com/story/openai... from @willknight.bsky.social and me

OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6d

Marissa Mayer's AI company Sunshine is shuttering, with assets going to a new Mayer company called Dazzle. @laurengoode.bsky.social with the scoop.

www.wired.com/story/mariss...

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 9d

Scoop with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: Marissa Mayer is dissolving her Sunshine startup lab. The assets will be sold to a new Mayer-founded AI firm called Dazzle www.wired.com/story/mariss...

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

www.wired.com

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 13d

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 13d

Larry Ellison is a shadow president in Donald Trump's America. www.wired.com/story/larry-... via @jakelahut.writes.news

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 13d

Modular is one of the more interesting startups I’ve heard about in a long time. Their goal is hyper-specific but super important in the generative AI era: Improve the portability and performance of the software that runs on GPUs, and loosen the Nvidia CUDA chokehold www.wired.com/story/semico...

A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software

Demand for AI chips is booming—and so is the need for software to run them. Chris Lattner’s startup Modular just raised $250 million to build the best developer tools for AI hardware.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 13d

today the @wired.com mural in bushwick they’re working on zuck dog leg and sam altman dog manicure so tag us if u see us

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 14d

ayo @wired.com

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 15d

They’re painting this @wired.com art on a wall in Bushwick today

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 15d

In which @stevenlevy.bsky.social lays out what drew him to covering Silicon Valley years ago, and how the industry has arrived at an incredibly dangerous place of political pandering. www.wired.com/story/silico...

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 15d

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15d

This @stevenlevy.bsky.social essay is many things. One of them is a love letter to the transformative, oppositional, innovative, optimistic Silicon Valley of the not-too-distant past. When founders talked about changing the world for the better — and meant it.

Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 15d

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 15d

"Before she even met her family at the airport, she already decided to fly back to the US as soon as possible. She only stayed in Urumqi for two hours before hopping on the next flight back to California." @zeyiyang.bsky.social on the H-1B chaos this past weekend www.wired.com/story/dollar...

$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers

President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent tech firms scrambling to get immigrant workers back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15d

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.

Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.

Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

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WIRED @wired.com · 15d

“I had looked forward to the opportunity of traveling with my parents for a long time, but the reality is, I can’t leave behind my husband, my cat, my house, my friends, and my job in the US."

$3,800 flights and aborted takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Visa announcement panicked tech workers.

$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers

President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent immigrant tech workers and firms scrambling to get back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

www.wired.com

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 19d

I loved making those videos! One of these days I'll try to revive them :)

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 19d

There's a lot going on here!! www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal

Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel. The news comes after the US government took a roughly 10 percent equity stake in the struggling chipmaker.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 19d

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking

www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.

The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20d

the list of national media institutions not owned by fascist billionaires is getting shorter and shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/top-t...

Top Trump Ally May Soon Control TikTok and CNN

Neither of these deals have been realized. But I want to flag...

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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 20d

As part of the new agreement, Microsoft has committed to invest $30 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years. Nvidia, for its part, has pledged to spend up to $15 billion on AI-related R&D efforts in the UK www.wired.com/story/micros... via @natashabernal.bsky.social

US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push

Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion in the UK during US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21d

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21d

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident

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WIRED @wired.com · 21d

In the indictment, prosecutors claim Tyler Robinson planned Kirk’s killing in advance, citing rooftop surveillance, engraved bullets, and a written note as they seek the death penalty. www.wired.com/story/charli...

Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Charged as Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty

In the indictment, prosecutors claim Tyler Robinson planned Kirk’s killing in advance, citing rooftop surveillance, engraved bullets, and a written note as they seek the death penalty.

www.wired.com

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