Sam Altman has told OpenAI staff the company is considering slowing its frontier AI development, and that he hopes rival labs will follow. The more telling detail came a few hours later. OpenAI reportedly asked members of Congress whether coordinating an industry-wide slowdown would be legal under antitrust law. That's the right question to ask first. Competitors agreeing to … [Read more...] about Tech Digest: OpenAI Weighs an AI Slowdown as Oracle Cloud Revenue Jumps 121%
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What OpenAI’s Funding Rounds Are Actually Buying
OpenAI's capital raises have stopped being about runway. They are about something else now, and it is worth being clear on what. At the scale of funding OpenAI has absorbed — tens of billions across multiple rounds — the money is no longer primarily financing model training or operational costs, both of which are large but bounded. It is buying three things that have nothing … [Read more...] about What OpenAI’s Funding Rounds Are Actually Buying