… The first is core product and platform, led by Thibault Sottiaux, who has been OpenAI’s engineering lead for Codex, and the second is critical enterprise industries, led by ChatGPT head Nick Turley. …
… Air Mail is not that. Air Mail is like a big fancy culture magazine. It’s called Air Mail because I think it was meant to be read on airplanes. There is a moment for that kind of magazine to exist in first class on an airplane. …
… I understand Microsoft first became wary of OpenAI as a partner when Sam Altman was ousted as CEO in 2023 by the nonprofit’s board of directors. This wariness led to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recruiting DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman to lead its Microsoft AI business. …
… Hawkins May 1 Spirit Airlines deathwatch. Several outlets are reporting that the demise of the ultra-low-cost carrier is imminent, after Spirit failed to secure a lifeline from the Trump administration. …
… They piddled away however many billions of dollars on VR headsets, and they are, in fact, now the gatekeepers to all of media. It didn’t matter whether or not they paid for news. A bunch of Congresspeople yelling at them has had no meaningful impact on their business whatsoever. …
… As a result, it seems like this is now a stable trait. We’re seeing this in an ongoing way. You can look at some of OpenAI’s biggest business relationships and the way they kind of carry the weight of that mistrust in an ongoing way. …
… At the time, Canva had escaped a lot of the criticism being leveled at its competitors for adding AI tools. Melanie attributed that both to how much Canva users love the product and also the huge inroads it was making into the business world. …
… I rarely say you’re right, but I will right now say you’re right that the biggest place in my life right now where AI is making a big difference is in starting this business. I’ve got the Mac Mini. We’ve got a Slack bot. We’ve got an AI agent in Slack that we’re training to do stuff for us. …
… You filed a lawsuit against Paramount over the Warner Bros. merger. Explain what’s going on there. The Public Integrity Project, just to set a baseline, is a new public interest law firm that we’re running to raise the legal and reputational cost of corruption in the United States. …