Gary Marcus

homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters

I struggle with what to say about the new AI 2040: Plan A website. It all seems so implausible to me that I'm not sure where to start. There's an epistemic chasm between those who think superintelligence implies near-omnipotence and those (like me) who don't.

As a reminder, the Jury never judged Elon v Scam on the merits. Sam Altman stole a nonprofit just as he “allegedly” stole trade secrets from Apple. OpenAI definitely has a pattern that doesn’t seem well suited for an IPO.

I'm so angry... the OpenAI team is looking into it, but this feels like something that should happen with GPT-3.5. Not a mid-2026 frontier model on the highest reasoning level.

“OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets,” Apple says in the lawsuit.

Sam Altman should be in prison. But if we can’t have that, I’ll settle for him being a broke pariah.

🦔Apple is suing OpenAI for systematic trade secret theft weeks before the IPO. The complaint alleges a former Apple engineer exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud storage while employed at OpenAI and laughed about it in a text message. Tang Tan, now OpenAI's chief hardware officer, allegedly used Apple codenames in interviews to extract confidential information from current employees and circulated an internal Apple offboarding doc to teach new hires how to dodge exit security. Over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. My Take If even half of this complaint holds up, OpenAI's hardware plans are finished. You can't ship a device when a court has ruled your team and supply chain were built on stolen IP. Apple has more cash than most countries and a legal team that treats intellectual property enforcement like a religion. This is about the worst opponent OpenAI could have drawn right before asking public markets for money. The bigger problem is what this says about the company. Apple isn't describing one rogue employee. They're describing a senior hire who allegedly coached recruits on bypassing exit security and an engineer who treated accessing his former employer's files like a joke. If you're sending proprietary data through OpenAI's API, this filing should be on your reading list. Hedgie🤗

Sam Altman, thief.