The AI Platform War Got Practical

Mike's take

The dumbest question about AI is the one worth asking out loud. If a term loses you, stop and look it up. Everyone's faking half of it.

Top AI stories worth your time

• Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ — The Verge AI
  Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools an
• Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? — TechCrunch AI
  On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
• I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno — The Verge AI
  I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So
• ‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ — TechCrunch AI
  "Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
• Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all — TechCrunch AI
  Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

Jargon, decoded: Prompt

The input text or instruction given to an AI model to produce a response.

In plain English: What you type to tell the AI what you want. Better instructions in, better answers out.

Fact: AI runs on real buildings, not clouds.

Those data centers use serious power and water. It's infrastructure, not magic — which is the whole story right now.

Try this today

Summarize a long article before you commit to reading it. Paste the text, ask for five bullets, then decide if it's worth your time.

Try this prompt

Draft a short, friendly message to reconnect with an old client without sounding like a sales pitch.