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The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Ronan Farrow, the reporter who broke the Weinstein story, spent 18 months investigating the CEO behind ChatGPT. He got a secret 70-page memo from the company's own top scientist. First item on the list: "Lying." Farrow and Andrew Marantz interviewed over 100 people and obtained two documents that have never been public. The first is that memo. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's top scientist at the time, put it together in fall 2023: workplace chat logs, HR files, screenshots taken on personal phones to dodge company tracking. He told a fellow board member, "I don't think Sam is the one who should be holding the button." The second is over 200 pages of private notes kept by Dario Amodei during his years at OpenAI. (Amodei now runs Anthropic, a competing AI company. The notes were written while he was still at OpenAI.) His conclusion: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." OpenAI publicly promised that 20% of its computing power would go to the safety team, the people whose entire job was making sure AI doesn't become dangerous. Four people on that team said the real number was 1-2%, running on the oldest, worst machines they had. When the reporters asked to speak with a researcher working on long-term AI safety, an OpenAI spokesperson said: "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That's not, like, a thing." The team was shut down before it finished. The pattern stretches back before OpenAI. At Altman's first startup Loopt, employees asked the board to remove him as CEO twice. At Y Combinator, the startup program he ran next, Paul Graham privately told colleagues Altman "had been lying to us all the time." A board member described him as having "a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." A Microsoft executive, someone with a financial stake in OpenAI doing well, compared him to Bernie Madoff. Altman denied being deliberately deceptive in over a dozen conversations with the reporters. He called his shifting commitments "well-intentioned adaptation." This drops while OpenAI prepares to sell shares on the stock market for the first time, possibly later this year, at a price that would value the company at up to $1 trillion. They just raised $122 billion in private funding at a value of $852 billion. Revenue is about $25 billion a year, but the company expects to lose $14 billion this year and doesn't plan to turn a profit until 2029. The same week this came out, a separate report said OpenAI's own chief financial officer told colleagues she didn't think the company would be ready to go public in 2026. OpenAI's response: "anonymous claims and selective anecdotes sourced from people with clear agendas." The 70 pages Sutskever compiled and the 200 pages Amodei wrote had never been reported on before this investigation.

NEW: After cutting deals with CNN and CNBC, the prediction market Kalshi has made arguably its biggest deal yet. It is getting into business with Fox, where its data will be baked into Fox News programming.

BREAKING: France sold its gold stored in New York and purchased an equivalent amount in Europe. All of France’s gold reserves are now located in Paris.

NEW: MBTA confirm $80 return ticket Boston to Gillette Stadium during World Cup, after @TheAthleticFC first reported it would be over $75. Quadruple the usual price for NFL games. No concessions for kids, over-60s or passengers with accessibility needs nytimes.com/athletic/71501…

@SheaSerrano so do we get another gift if we auto-subscribe for another year?

Colorado's state legislators have known for months that their budget is $1.5B short. And this week, it's nut cuttin' time down at the ranch.

The perfect bunt doesn't exi… never mind 😍

Licorice Pizza

The founders of illegal Russian media operation Tenet Media weren't just allowed back in the country. They're invited to the White House Easter egg roll! x.com/TheLaurenChen/…

Tonight's view in Pittsburgh is extra beautiful 😍

"We will always choose each other." Mission control has reacquired signal with the Artemis II crew after the mission’s planned loss of signal. Our astronauts are once again using the Deep Space Network to keep conversation and science data flowing between space and Earth.

Dear President Trump, The leak that only one pilot was rescued came from Israel, from a very specific office. Check me out, everyone here reported it on Friday. We have a government of irresponsible clowns. Thank you for the attention to this matter.

New record🥇 The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth than humans have ever been! At 1:57 p.m. EDT, they broke the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Their journey around the far side of the Moon today will take them a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

The Trump White House's new app is riddled with cybersecurity vulnerabilities: Cybersecurity researchers warn that the app regularly shares users' IP addresses, time zones and other data to third-party services. But most of its users wouldn't know that, because the app doesn't disclose its data sharing the way most others do. notus.org/technology/tru…

@SheaSerrano UNLV walked so Michigan could run.

growing up in the ‘90s when these five guys became the coolest basketball team to have ever existed was so special

@SirJeremyLondon Needed a peanut butter, raspberry jam, banana , and bacon sammie.

Ronny ordered “The Elvis” 😜

Artemis II just hit the "two thirds" mark of the journey to the Moon. During Flight Day 4, the astronauts aboard Orion went over plans to study the Moon during their upcoming lunar flyby and are currently practicing manually controlling the spacecraft.

Ousted Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, told Pentagon officials in an outgoing email that U.S. soldiers deserve "courageous leaders of character," after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to step down and take immediate retirement. An outgoing email, attributed to George and confirmed as authentic by CBS News on Saturday, circulated online after his ousting. A U.S. official told CBS News that George sent the email to Driscoll, the undersecretary and assistant secretary of the Army, as well as to the three- and four-star generals and officers on his staff.

A lot more men getting emotional and angry about this tweet.