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A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent announces that its model beats GPT-5.5, on its own benchmark? I’m gonna wait a little before I trust this. This whole company s…

I read the profile and didn't see anything really wrong. Why would PR companies have to believe in their clients? Why does he have to be held to higher moral standards than Sam Alt…

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Author is assuming SpaceX is going to buy Cursor for $60B and I'm not sure why. Is there some reason? To me it seems that SpaceX probably does not intend to buy, and is paying $10 …

In my book, you are a hero if you sacrifice your own well-being for the utilitarian good of the public. Many people here would call Putin's assassin a hero, the important distingui…

Like Anthropic? Due to Altman being a lying psychopath, most of the talent left OpenAI, which is now fighting for its life -- but now they can't claim to have moral high ground or …

Is that an actual quote from simonw? He seems an unbiased observer and reporter of progress, I'd be sad to see him cheering this stuff on so callously.

I agree with you overall and would even concede the trend, but everyone I know who was born into money is not a good person. (Of course, Trump was too.) They tend to treat people a…

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It's tempting to look at trends and assume there must be a rule behind them, but it's also intellectually lazy. Please do the hard work of justifying your stance like GGP did.

Yes, most of their top talent has left, except for Jakub. The top researchers I know have no interest in the company.

Google has already surpassed them both in all areas except coding. People on HN only look at benchmarks, but Gemini's multimodal understanding, things like identifying what a plant…

So YC values the company at $1.8 million. I don't think that's so different.

Absolutely not. Windsurf also just stole an open source model, there’s almost zero chance Google is using that under the hood.

And fired from YC for lying. And lied to investors about how many Loopt employees he had. And lied about having 100x the actual number of users when he sold it. And lied to employe…

I prescribe literally zero truth value to what Sam says. He will say whatever he needs to get ahead. It is honestly irritating to me that you and many others here seem to implicitl…

I don't trust Sam to be telling the truth. It would be to his benefit to lie about this and make Anthropic look bad, so he of course would, even if it's not actually the case.

I think it's all he knows. His "oh, shucks" good-boy routine is what he's been doing for 15 years now, it's gotten him far, it's never been genuine, but it feels especially out of …

Am I right in thinking these numbers look awful for OpenAI? They're down by 22% from last month while Gemini is up 50% again. Their supposed user moat doesn't look very sturdy...

I feel RevenueCat is on shaky ground, their market position can only get worse and worse as Apple and Google improve their complimentary offerings and they are forced into more A/B…

Zitron has never said anything like that. Do you have a quote?

I'm not sure, but there is a difference: the researchers don't have much incentive to get everyone to use their model. As such, they're not really the ones hyping up AI as the futu…

I know someone (not an engineer) who was applying to jobs for a long time and got a 100% pay increase from moving to Meta, about $60k -> $120k. In such circumstances, it is difficu…

Cognition pivoted from a crypto company. The only thing he's "consumed with" is getting rich. Get real.

People come out to defend their bosses a lot on this site, convincing themselves they know the powerful people best, that they’re “friends”. How can someone be so confident that a …