💭 Sam Altman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “AI’s a Bubble”
OpenAI’s Sam Altman dropped a truth-bomb: yes, AI is a bubble. But instead of backing off, he’s doubling down. Like, trillions-of-dollars worth of doubling. Datacenters, global compute infrastructure - the whole megillah.
His take? The market may wobble, but the hunger for intelligence and compute isn’t going anywhere. It's kind of like saying, “Sure, it’s frothy. But also? It’s everything.”
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🧱 Are We Just... Stuck?
The Financial Times stirred the pot yesterday, asking if AI has quietly slammed into a ceiling. GPT-5 is here - yay! - but does it feel like a leap? Or more like a touch-up on something we’ve already seen?
Energy use is another red flag. The newest models burn through electricity like it’s on clearance. So... are we improving autocomplete forever, or sitting quietly before the next jump?
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🧬 AI Helping Solve Cold Cases in South Carolina
Down in South Carolina, AI’s getting eerie-good at helping ID long-unidentified remains. Coroner’s offices are using facial reconstruction tools that match missing persons databases with unsettling speed.
Stuff that would've gathered dust for decades might now be solved in days. Weird to think - just code, but it’s doing what humans couldn’t. Filling in blank spaces with probabilities and pixel guesses.
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🧑⚖️ Oops: Gaetz Apologizes Over Fake AI Soldiers
Matt Gaetz found himself in hot water after airing AI-generated images of female soldiers on OAN - passing them off as real. After the inevitable backlash, he admitted they were fakes and promised to, quote, “do better.”
It’s a low-stakes scandal with high-stakes implications. Synthetic media is sneaking into political storytelling, and this time it was just soldier stock photos. Next time? Who knows.
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📈 $5 Trillion Alphabet? Maybe...?
Wild prediction from Wall Street types: Alphabet (yes, Google’s parent) could hit a $5 trillion market cap in the next five years.
They’re betting big on AI integration across Search, YouTube, and Cloud. Feels huge - but also, haven’t we seen trillion-dollar projections flame out before? Still, if they’re right, it’d make Alphabet the biggest company ever. Like, ever-ever.
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