Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?

At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropic’s Claude in drag disguise I guess. I’m starting to get really worried about Intel y’all. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• OpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)
• Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters)
• ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year (The Verge)
• Intel Weighs Options Including Foundry Split to Stem Losses (Bloomberg)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Sunk cost (the Open Sea story) (The Verge)
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games)
• I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film (The New Republic)
• End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (AnandTech)

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