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Plain and simple this is revenge for the Anthropic super bowl ads, which were epic burns against openAI's primary future revenue stream.

This seems like an exceptionally shallow reading of everything and everyone involved.

You think OpenAI decided to build MurderBot because someone made fun on them selling ads?


I think it's plausible, given the effort he seemed to put into his initial response to the ads: https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

from the tweet above: "Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be."

Glad there are no hard feelings after those Superbowl ads

My guess is nuclear test.

Airport circle to secure the transport of the device to the ground adjacent to the test site.

Trapezoid is the test site, wider on the side that is less controllable (border-facing).

Disconnected because two separate teams executed in parallel without informed oversight.


While Mexican side has no restrictions - that would be supremely dumb even for a primary school level of thinking. Tons of civilians dead with clear reason who caused it, completely preventable.

Fantasy often likes extreme options but most probably saner reason like expected strike on cartels and their retaliation is whats happening.


>supremely dumb even for a primary school level of thinking

So 100% Trump


... I don't think they're detonating a nuclear weapon in a National Monument 50 miles from a large US city...

There are plenty of better places for them to do this.


NTS was 60-80 mi away from Las Vegas.

yes there might be safer locations for an underground nuclear test, but how many of them offer the same "F U" PR capacity relative to Mexico/Juarez/cartels, etc.


A nuclear weapon is only "F U" PR to cartels if you believe they're literally braindead, which given that they run massive international businesses, I suspect they're not.

Nukes mean nothing to a cartel. What an insane idea.


It’s probably not SOP to land nuclear weapons at the municipal airport either.


There is a military base with its own airfield located within El Paso basically right next to El Paso International Airport.


While we have an excuse explanation from the admin now which nobody knows how true or not it is, its trump of course. Why is it off or weird that he'd want to see a big boom.


where are the productivity gains in GDP?

where are the websites that are lightning fast, where speed and features and ads have been magically optimized by ai, and things feel fast like 2001 google.com fast

why does customer service still SUCK?


We are still massively lacking in software. We're not at the stage of making websites faster, we're at the stage of making more of them. We haven't come close to hitting the point where we have enough software and now the job is to refine it.


Because companies now develop shitty websites faster, they don’t magically get better.


Love everything he's ever done. Phones and skiing don't mix. Dropping a paper trail map off the lift won't ruin your run. Dropping your phone will. Why spend time thinking about wireless, bars of service etc. when you can look at ART to plan your next downhill ADVENTURE???


Horses never figured out how to get government bailouts.


I really enjoyed the preemptive comments at the end of one of his other blog posts:

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/06/17/make-worse-softwar...


Did you follow through with the full repair? How long did it take? What was the materials cost?


Curious if it's possible to back into which hyperscaler customers were impacted?


Cali could have called his bluff, he's not moving to Texas any time soon, and neither are his employees.


In most cases I would say you are correct, but this would be an extremely rare exception. OpenAI has about 7000 employees, and has raised a round at a $500B valuation with a realistic shot at a $1T valuation at IPO. That's a range of $70-140M of equity value per employee. So if employees hold 10% (and that's a low estimate) it's an average of $7-14M per employee. So for the average employee leaving CA before IPO would be a $1 million benefit over paying CA cap gains taxes.

Of course that isn't distributed remotely evenly and a lot of employees have not nearly enough to want to leave CA over taxes or just don't want to leave CA for other reasons. But OpenAI could easily say "HQ is moving to Austin. All employees must relocate and will be given $1M relocation bonuses." And the part left unsaid would be "Failure to comply means you lose 7 figures of options." Take rate on that would be >95%.


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