The two wildest stories today in tech

You can’t make this stuff up, and, no, I am not pulling an April Fool’s prank. First, Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman just tried to redefine superintelligence down from AI that is smarter than the smartest humans to something a lot more mundance: AI “models capable of delivering product value for millions of enterprises”. If I am not mistaken, I guess makes cell phones and Microsoft Word … “superintelligent”. § Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company that just killed Sora and postponed “erotica” so that they could focus more, bought an eighteen-month-old podcast network called TBPN for $250 million . A bunch of employees actually thought it was an April Fool’s: If it’s not an April Fool’s what is it? I have only one guess: A quarter-billion dollar desperation move: an effort to control the narrative, to distract away from the billion or so dollars they are losing each month this year , and rumors that their stock is losing favor on the secondary market . § At some level the fact that these two stories broke on the same day is not coincidence. With actual AGI nowhere in sight , redefinition and spin may be all that’s left. SubscribeRead More