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New details from the video generator Sora OpenAI shutdown - It was losing roughly $1 million per day on compute costs. - User numbers had dropped below 500,000 from a peak of over 1 million. - Disney executives received less than an hour's notice despite ongoing talks for a major integration.

Imagine closing your entire consumer memory division because this guy signed a non binding letter that he would buy 40% of the world’s RAM. Only to have him rug pull 3 months later.

New blog post: the state of AI safety in four fake graphs.

🚨 Do you understand what SCAM ALTMAN has been doing? He made a crypto called Worldcoin that scans your eyeballs with a metal orb in exchange for tokens. The token hit $11.74 in 2024. Today $WLD is $0.28. Down 97%. His foundation dumped $65 million worth last week at $0.27 each. In Kenya they found the project exploiting extreme poverty to get people to scan their eyes for worthless crypto. In Berlin gangs were forcing homeless people and refugees to get scanned so they could pocket the rewards. Thailand raided a site and ordered 1.2 million scans deleted. Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany all banned or investigating. Snowden warned everyone. They say they delete the scans. They don't. They keep the digital fingerprint of your eyes forever in a privately owned database. In 2015 Elon Musk gave $38 million to co-found OpenAI with Altman. The deal was clear. Keep it nonprofit. Keep it open source. Build AI for humanity. Altman took the money. Turned it into a closed source for-profit company valued at $840 billion. Microsoft got 27%. Musk didn't see a dollar. Musk tried buying it back for $97.4 billion. Altman said on camera "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion." Asked about Musk in an interview he said "his whole life is from a position of insecurity. I don't think he's a happy person." Called the lawsuit "this week's episode." He's also investing in his own chip company that sells chips to OpenAI. Investing in energy companies that power OpenAI. Buying from himself. Musk filed a $134 billion lawsuit. Most people called him jealous. Then his lawyers found the personal diary of Greg Brockman, one of the original OpenAI co-founders. A 2017 entry reads "I cannot believe that we committed to non-profit if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie." He admitted the nonprofit promise was never real. Two years before they officially went for-profit. The judge said there's "ample evidence." Sent it to a jury. Trial starts April 27. Musk said he'll donate every dollar to charity. Altman laughed on camera. Called Musk insecure. Called the lawsuit a joke. His own co-founder's diary says the nonprofit was never real. A jury decides in 28 days. Let's see who's laughing after the verdict.

🚨 Anthropic CEO admits we have no idea how AI works. For the first time intelligence is emerging from machines beyond human design.