Hello all, Well, here's to another relentless week of (mostly bad) AI news. Between the AI bubble discourse—my contribution, a short blog on the implications of an economy propped up by AI, is doing numbers, as they say—and the AI-generated mass shooting victim discourse, I've barely had time to get into OpenAI. The ballooning startup has released its highly anticipated GPT-5 model, as well as its first actually "open" model in years, and is considering a share sale that would value it at $500 billion.
The ballooning startup has released its highly anticipated GPT-5 model, as well as its first actually "open" model in years, and is considering a share sale that would value it at $500 billion. And then there's the New York Times' whole package of stories on Silicon Valley's new AI-fueled 'Hard Tech' era.