Tess Fenn 🌞

Sadly this is 100% correct

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

OpenAI is Carrie Claude is Miranda Gemini is Charlotte Grok is Samantha

Una perra fue diagnosticada con depresión tras sufrir un aborto espontáneo, y los veterinarios decidieron que trabajar con niños en una escuela local le vendría bien. Nunca ha sido tan feliz. ❤️❤️❤️

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/…

There are no words.

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In Mexico, a monkey slips into the same hotel every day, helps himself to breakfast, and casually walks back out

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting. 😊

Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments. Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate. Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities... Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies. (the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

Coders in 2030 be like:

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home. They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️

@minhsmind @Producers_Pin

Tax credits help more local productions happen, which is awesome. But my sense is tax credits should be overwhelmingly going to indie films and smaller studios. But I get it. People also want their tax credits going to huge successful projects with massive marketing budgets. Reminds of good schools with great test scores getting more money.

@WilliamBakst teaching #thekinn community about @claudeai ‘s claws and what they can do. Great to hear your take on how open claw can help us optimize our time across platforms.

context engineering is the new product management

Must read.

ALYSA LIU YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE. 😍 #WinterOlympics

Honestly, one of the best and down-to-earth takes on AI I’ve seen from a Hollywood celebrity. Only makes me love Matthew McCounaghey even more. “It’s coming. It’s already here. Don’t deny it. It’s not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that, ‘No, this is wrong.’ It’s not gonna last. There’s too much money to be made, and it’s too productive. So I say: Own yourself. Voice, likeness, et cetera. Trademark it. Whatever you gotta do, so when it comes, no one can steal you.”

The new era of post-Marty Supreme film advertising/marketing is about guerilla marketing. Love it. Explode the theatrics and pageantry in entertainment!