Over the weekend the Financial Times came out with a report on OpenAI’s latest pivot.  According to a senior OpenAI executive quoted in the piece, the company has decided that “chat is dead.” Instead, company executives insist, the future lies in a “super app,” an agent (from OpenAI, naturally) that will do everything for us. The … Continue reading "Wait, Chat Is Dead? Does That Mean OpenAI Is Abandoning Ads?"

The most interesting piece of news this morning comes from Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who made a very public point of chastising his own team for saying the quiet part out loud. That quiet part? In an internal memo leaked to 404 Media, a Microsoft VP said his team’s goal was to “make people addicted” to … Continue reading "Should AI Be Addictive?"

“Hey Google, how are the Giants doing this year?”  I was standing at my bathroom sink, finishing up my daily ablutions, when a random thought popped into my head. It’s been a minute since I checked in on my favorite baseball team – ever since I moved East, they’ve been in a slump. Maybe they’re … Continue reading "Where’s All the AI Magic?"