tech-things

Tech Things: OpenAI's Magic Money

Investments in private companies can be dangerous for your health

Oct 10 •

Tech Things: Financing my Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

It's like a mortgage. For a taco.

Oct 6 •

Tech Things: OpenAI Announces Another GPU "Strategic Partnership"

They may be compensating for something

Sep 23 •

Tech Things: the point of crypto is breaking the rules

Sometimes that's a good thing?

Sep 5 •

Tech Things: Genie’s Lamp, OpenAI can't make graphs, Anthropic is also here, Where is everyone else?

It was a busy week in the AI world.

Aug 8 •

Tech Things: More Windsurf Drama

My friend's friend's friend's friend had some rumors to share.

Jul 27 •

Tech Things: What on earth is going on with Grok?

Analyzing Grok's Latest Meltdown through xAI Public System Prompts

Jul 9 •

Tech Things: Meta spends $14b to hire a single guy

Sure, they kinda sorta acquired Scale AI too.

Jun 28 •

Tech Things: xAI screws up its system prompts, again

Once is coincidence, twice is enemy action. Also, you really should not be using LLMs as fact checkers.

May 17 •

Tech things: OpenAI is Still an Unaligned Agent (?)

A walk through memory lane as we dissect OpenAI's history of weird corporate structures

May 7 •

Tech Things: Tesla, Waymo, and Self Driving Cars

Tesla gets rocked in earnings. Waymo keeps on keeping on.

Apr 23 •

Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple?

$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.

Apr 20 •

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