(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.
OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?
A thread on some of of our findings:
I’ve never come upon a paywall while casually browsing the news and thought “let me get my credit card out”. It’s always “I don’t need to know that badly.”
Zohran launched $30/hr snow-shoveling jobs with $45/hr overtime, and Republicans mocked him.
Not only were sidewalks completely cleared within a day, but he did exactly what taxes are intended to do: take taxpayer money and invest it in people while producing results that benefit everyone.
How on EARTH do you stay missing for more than 2 weeks when you have a rich, high-profile daughter, modern technology, the President of the US tweeting about you, the whole FBI investigating, and all of TikTok trying to find you...
HOW DID WE GET HERE IN 2026
I know it's a big news day, but incase you missed it, a group of AI's have started their own social media website and made it end to end encrypted so humans aren't allowed to read what they're saying about us. seems bad
Someone is flying around City Hall tail whipping in a little buggy to Olivia Dean’s ‘Man I Need’. Philadelphia is the best city in the world and you can’t convince me otherwise
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."
Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize speech, where he accepted the award on behalf of the American civil rights movement: https://t.co/S5fRlksKZ5
#MLKDay
The defending Super Bowl champs, with maybe the most loaded offensive roster in the league, gave playcalling duties to a man who had never called plays before, and they just waited an entire season for him to try and figure it out.
I’ll never get over it. What a waste of a year.
we burned a whole year with this roster because Nick Sirianni just chose to promote his buddy in the building rather than run actual Offensive Coordinator search and he should be held accountable for that.