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I repeat, the bubble is in the 'e' not the 'p' in today's PE ratios. The hucksters and talking heads will, as always, fail to realize until it's too late. But it's a very simple set up. Hyperscalers g

If Forbes had only waited to hear the testimony at this week’s trial Or read @_KarenHao’s book Or @RonanFarrow’s @newyorker investigation Or my own writings since fall 2023 They would have realized ho

Important nuance: the jury at this Musk-OpenAI trial is an *advisory* jury, hence not binding on the judge, and is only looking at liability (not damages, if any). Thanks to @bahhradx for correcting a

just want to go back to how much intense pushback i got on this story at all levels of the company at the time, and how people speak very differently when under the threat of perjury lot of names etch

Tim Harford compares large language models to tricksters, arguing that LLMs excel at generating plausible-sounding text without necessarily ensuring accuracy or truthfulness. The article likely explor

Many trials feel like Rashomon with different witnesses. The amazing thing about Musk-OpenAI is how much agreement there has been (at least so far) on the facts. The question is really whether what Op

Mira Murati’s testimony is gripping – and what it makes absolutely clear is how utterly wrong most of Twitter was about why Sam was fired. – It had nothing per se to do with AI safety - It had nothing

OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws in developing first ChatGPT model, probe finds https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-openai-chatgpt-violated-canadian-privacy-laws-watchdogs-report/?ut

Precisely what I have been saying since day 1: the challenge in generative AI is reliability. That was the challenge, and still is. AI pretenders vs. AI contenders. It's those who still haven’t realiz

The last sentence in this abstract is really important, in a way that professional programmers will immediately recognize: the models favored big single files rather than breaking things into modules.

👇 This is an incredible admission by Jensen Huang. Effectively he is saying that AI, for all the hype (some from himself) wasn’t really useful until late 2025. Let that sink in. This means practically

truly scary: anybody, no matter how noble, can be destroyed by misused AI. Artificial intelligence can create deceptive videos that rapidly damage a politician's public reputation. A new study reveals

What’s going on in semis is not sustainable per GS Everyone spending on AI is losing money except for semiconductor companies and the dynamic is “unprecedented and unsustainable” “Something has to cha

yep, we are about to live in a world where nobody trusts anything. just like Putin always wanted. congratulations! ps it will suck @GaryMarcus Or very soon no one will take any photo or video seriousl

AI music generator Udio just admitted in a court filing that it trained on audio scraped from YouTube videos. It’s already being sued by labels & artists for what they say is copyright infringement on

Alex Karp now sounding like @garymarcus. Sooner or later, everyone figures it out. Palantir CEO Alex Karp goes after AI slop. The fight over AI “slop” is really a fight over whether software is perfor

🚨 BOTH ALTMAN AND BROCKMAN SELF-DEALING ON CEREBRAS >Greg Brockman acquires personal Cerebras ownership in 2017 >Altman, separately, invests in Cerebras >Brockman pushes OpenAI to merge with Cerebras

Brockman confirms that Sam was fired for not being consistently candid. Crazy that @karaswisher blocked me for saying that the board fired Sam for not being consistently candid, when that is in fact w

Brockman’s counsel is doing a good job of laying out the timeline — but done little so far to refute yesterday’s dissection of her client’s self-dealing and dodgy behavior regarding his fiduciary resp

Can’t believe that dopey CMU ML professor tried to convince me that hallucinations had been solved. 🙄 Researchers at EPFL proved your AI is lying to you. Not sometimes. Most of the time. They built on

Elon: Let’s settle. Greg: Nope. Elon: Ok, let’s talk about your diaries, then. On the eve of trial, Elon Musk reached out to Greg Brockman about a potential settlement, according to court documents fi

Folks, AFAIK this is *literally not a possible outcome of the trial*, as Elon has waived the right to any cash payment to him, instead assigning any monetary damages to OpenAI’s nonprofit. @PursueOpti

Gary Marcus reflects on changing public perception of Sam Altman, noting that skepticism toward Altman's claims was once dismissed as hatred but has become more mainstream. The post suggests a shift i

I predict this will be the most embarrassing cover in the history of this magazine. This is like putting Enron executives on your cover, or doing a gauzy special report on Bernie Madoff. Sam Altman is

Important new development. AI company employees have an enormous amount of power — far more than they realize. Absent legislation, AI co worker power is one of the key levers to shaping what the indus

In vividly explaining how he deceived Musk about his commitment to the nonprofit, without a trace of remorse, OpenAI’s Brockman has done Musk’s counsel quite a service. Brockman’s also been pretty gre

“Indispensable reading” If you aren’t reading my newsletter, you probably should be! Today’s dispatch is on the Dawkins Debacle and cites @GaryMarcus, who has been indispensable reading over the last

Katie Miller began following Gary Marcus on X (formerly Twitter). Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher known for his public commentary on artificial intelligence and technology polic

Major new class action lawsuit accuses Meta of copyright infringement around AI training. It says they trained on pirated books, and that AI books flooding the market demonstrates market harm. These l

This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus appears to reference a witness or testimony related to Elon Musk, using a lighthearted tone to encourage civil discourse. Without access to the specific tweet co

This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus summarizes major events in OpenAI's recent history across three acts: ChatGPT's record-breaking success, the dramatic firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman, and

So let me make sure I’ve got this correct: >Google gives Anthropic cash to pay Google for compute. >anthropic gives compute away for a loss, and this discounted compute draws in large user bases to ca

Some things never change. If you don’t understand this one, you don’t understand what’s happening AI. Marcus, 1998: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Marcus, 2001, 2012, 2019,

The crux of the Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots and API access for profit (which is what they do now) is exactly the same as the original mission (which w

Gary Marcus highlights a concerning trend where non-technical teams are directly deploying production code, which raises significant risks around quality control, security, and system reliability in f

Too early to tell how the trial ends, but if Elon does win, the takeaway might be in part that Greg Brockman made two immense blunders: 1. Writing down all that stuff in his diary 2. Blowing off Elon’

Gary Marcus critiques the gap between AI aspirations and current reality, suggesting that instead of achieving transformative 'singularity' breakthroughs, AI development has become cyclical—repeating

Gary Marcus explores hypothetical scenarios and consequences if OpenAI were to fail or lose its competitive position in the AI industry. The post likely examines implications for AI development, the b

Almost every warning that I have issued over the last several years has come true. You better hope to God or Darwin or whoever you believe in that this one is wrong. Accidental nuclear war is a potent

Confirmed 2.5 years later, by Greg Brockman. Remember how Sam Altman told the US Senate he had no “direct” investment in OpenAI? and how they gushed over his apparent selflessness? 👉He didn’t mention

Gary Marcus and Sam Altman testified before the Senate regarding AI oversight, with Marcus noting that two individuals stood up during the hearing and asserting that one of them told the truth. This r

Gary Marcus criticizes overhyped AI claims, with the term 'marcussed' referring to his practice of debunking exaggerated AI assertions. The post appears to reference a discussion with Yann LeCun about

🚨 GREG BROCKMAN JUST CONFESSED UNDER OATH Q: You have an ownership interest in this cap profit company. Brockman: That is accurate. Q: And you invested 0 in order to acquire that interest. Correct? Br

Greg Brockman’s diary is well on its way to being the most famous, impactful diary of the 21st century. takeaway from Greg Brockman testimony at Elon vs. OpenAI trial today is that no grown man should

Hey filthy rich AI warlords who have alienated most of the population, don’t say I didn’t try to warn you.🤷‍♂️ “Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating what one researcher and critic has been say

Hilarious (and maybe a little bit scary) that even in 2026 Marc Andreessen still hasn’t learned that LLMs don’t know how to reliably follow system prompts. don't feel bad, guys, the techno-optimist ma