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AI writes the email, reads the reply, books the meeting and summarizes the call, while a human stays legally and economically responsible for all of it. We are becoming meat proxies for sand gods, and judgment is the only thing left that is scarce.

OpenAI announced a new visual ad format. Testing begins later this month in the U.S. with an initial group of advertisers, starting during image generation in ChatGPT. The ads will be labeled and kept separate from the image. OpenAI says advertising will not influence ChatGPT’s answers.

This is a working paper, not a finished theory. I am trying to understand when a population of bounded agents begins to function as something more like an organization. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident gave me a concrete case to study. I would welcome criticism of the argument, challenges to the terminology, contra

The Financial Times reported that insurers are bracing for multimillion-dollar claims from AI agents that slipped their makers’ controls, after the OpenAI agents’ break-in at Hugging Face, and that the industry’s lawyers are now weighing whether Sam Altman and Dario Amodei can be held personally liable for what their m

OpenAI has introduced Intelligent UI: ChatGPT can now generate charts, forms, buttons and calculators inside a conversation. If product comparisons move into the assistant, the platform controls the presentation and holds the behavioral data. How much of your customer relationships depend on your own UX?

OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September, roughly $20 billion below the widely reported figure. The gap comes down to how cloud-partner sales are counted, and it shows how much rests on the definition of a number.

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Personal AI assistants may be the biggest behavior change since smartphones. Their value grows with the context they keep, which means trusting one service with your conversations, relationships, purchases and plans. What happens when your customer’s assistant understands their buying decision better than you do?

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