PerpetualPerception

@sama It’s cool, they already have Mythos

we're starting rollout of GPT-5.5-Cyber, a frontier cybersecurity model, to critical cyber defenders in the next few days. we will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for cyber; we want to rapidly help secure companies/infrastructure.

@SoraiaDev What’s your current MRR?

giving reddit ads a shot for the first time ever anyone got any advice before i start burning money?

@LoicBerthelot Didn’t you just fire 2 employees yesterday and today you’re talking about how good it feels to change the lives of your employees?

@PerpetualPerce1 Why not

I thought hitting $900K MRR across SaaS would change my life. But you know what actually did? Hiring a guy from Africa and watching his zoom background slowly upgrade week-after-week until he eventually moved his whole family to Portugal. No revenue milestone could EVER hit that hard. I started building SaaS for the money, status, and proving myself. But watching this guys actual life transform. All because I gave him a shot and he slam dunked it. That’s what it’s about for me. At the EOD, revenue is just numbers on a screen. But the lives you change and people you empower is what you remember. Almost makes me sad that agents are replacing humans so quickly.

@paulg @NZDoyleB @Ric_RTP 'He lied sometimes' isn't a strong endorsement for someone leading the most important technology we'll ever build.

The journalist who took down Harvey Weinstein just spent 18 months investigating Sam Altman. And what he found out is genuinely insane: The people who built OpenAI went on record saying he can't be trusted with the future of humanity. A Microsoft executive even compared him to Bernie Madoff. This isn't just some hit piece. It's 100+ interviews, secret memos, HR documents, Slack messages, and private notes that had never been seen before. Here's everything you have to know about Ronan Farrow's investigation: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist and CO-FOUNDER, compiled 70 pages of internal evidence against Altman. Slack messages. HR files. Behavioral analysis. The word at the top of his list of Altman's "consistent patterns": lying. He sent the documents as disappearing messages because he was "terrified" someone would find them. They became legendary in Silicon Valley. Insiders just call them "the Ilya Memos." Dario Amodei, another co-founder who left to start Anthropic, kept his own private notes. One line: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." Paul Graham, the man who RECRUITED Altman to run Y Combinator, told colleagues Altman had been "lying to us all the time." Multiple YC partners had complained about Altman's behavior by 2018. He was effectively forced out in 2019 despite publicly claiming for YEARS that he left voluntarily. Former board members described him as "unconstrained by truth." And the investigation found that Altman reportedly lied to the board about obtaining safety approvals for some of ChatGPT's most controversial features. That's the man running an $852 billion company with 900 million weekly users and a Pentagon contract. But here's where this gets really crazy: The New Yorker investigation dropped on Sunday. SAME DAY, Altman publishes a 13 page policy paper proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day workweek. The most ambitious social policy document in OpenAI's history. Dropped within HOURS of the most damaging article ever written about him. That's not coincidence. Monday: Elon Musk files a court motion demanding Altman be REMOVED as CEO. He wants the for-profit conversion completely unwound. Then Friday at 3:45 AM: a 20yo throws a Molotov cocktail at Altman's San Francisco mansion. It bounces off the house. Lights the gate on fire. An hour later, same guy shows up at OpenAI HQ threatening to burn the building down. Police arrest him on the spot. Nobody was hurt. But within hours, Altman posts a photo of his husband and 1yo child on his blog. Writes that he hopes the image "might dissuade the next person." Then blames the New Yorker article for making things "more dangerous" for him. In 5 days, Altman went from the target of the most devastating investigation in tech history to the sympathetic father whose family was attacked. Now anyone who criticizes him has to do it in the shadow of a firebombing. The New Yorker spent 18 months building the case that Altman is dangerous. Altman turned it into the reason HE'S in danger. And none of this changes what Farrow actually found: - The co-founders don't trust him - The former board doesn't trust him - The chief scientist documented 70 pages of evidence and was too scared to send them through normal channels - Paul Graham says he was lied to - A Microsoft executive put him in the same sentence as Madoff The trial starts in 16 days. If Musk wins, the for-profit conversion gets unwound and Altman is removed. If Altman wins, the man that every person who helped build OpenAI has publicly warned about gets permanent, unchecked control of the most powerful AI company on Earth. Either way, one thing is now undeniable... The people closest to Sam Altman are the ones screaming the loudest warnings. And this week proved he knows exactly how to make sure nobody listens. Peak manipulation.

@paulg Schlep blindness?

@PerpetualPerce1 That does not work in rural England.

For Jessica a significant part of the attraction of staying in a hotel is simply having someone else to cook the amount of food two teenage boys consume.

@paulg @mr_james_c If the products are all the same where is the centrifugal differentiation coming from?

@mr_james_c Can you give an example of a specific sentence or passage in it that's you feel is false?

I started my career working on tobacco brands. There's virtually zero product differentiation. Yet smokers would define their personality based on the brand they smoked. So I can tell you this article is 100% wrong.

@OpenAI Don't care, using Claude now

5.4 sooner than you Think.

@paulg @OoTheNigerian @sama So you're not sure whether he's good or bad morally?

@OoTheNigerian @sama All I meant was that he's very effective.

I don't think there is another tech leader as untrustworthy as this lad. @paulg once said of you drop @sama on an island, when you return he would be their leader. It is one of those statements that could be positive or negative. But in the past decade, it's clear which it is.

@paulg Do you still trust Sam to lead AI (since you helped him a lot) or is your opinion just that he's great at startups?

If you're working on an early stage startup, don't be deterred from using Anthropic just because you might want to sell to the DoD one day. Early on you need to focus on making your product the best. If you get the best results from Anthropic models, use them.

@paulg 13 yo has finally become 17 yo

Something I told 17 yo: Till their early 20s most people are so completely incapable of cooking that if you can make even basic things like pasta and scrambled eggs you'll seem to your friends like brilliant cook.

@paulg What do you think of the things happening in Darfur right now?

@signulll No fucking way this is heaven

what if after you die, god asks you: “so how was heaven?”

@eliana_jordan Doesn't work for ugly people

Videos are the best distribution for your SaaS. If you’re scared of filming yourself, here’s how to make it less painful at the beginning: • Plan a script → saves hours of editing • Don’t do everything in one take → you’ll hate your life • Change angles → better retention • Record one sentence at a time → stitch it together later Way easier than it sounds.

@paulg @HelgebyMagnus If you're referring to the Venezuelan situation everybody is better off for it. It was a good thing, even if somewhat unprecedented.

@HelgebyMagnus That's why I'm talking about it — so it doesn't become normalized.

The US is now doing the kind of things we used to make fun of banana republics for doing when I was a kid. I know not all the people who supported this man are idiots. Is there a point where the non-idiots say "enough is enough?"

@Jiankui_He What did you get done last week except for posting on X?

I am the global leader of gene editing.

@sama Can’t even login to codex on a remote machine. You guys are far behind Claude Code.

It has been amazing to watch the progress of the Codex team; they are beasts. The product/model is already so good and will get much better; I believe they will create the best and most important product in the space, and enable so much downstream work.

@OpenAI What are the benchmarks? Is the source trust me bro?

GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT is rolling out to all users this week. It’s smarter, more reliable, and a lot more conversational. openai.com/index/gpt-5-1

@sama No benchmarks?

GPT-5.1 is out! It's a nice upgrade. I particularly like the improvements in instruction following, and the adaptive thinking. The intelligence and style improvements are good too.