The Investigation This week, a story went viral across AI communities: OpenAI employees were publicly mocking users grieving the upcoming deprecation of GPT-4o. The claims seemed almost too brazen to be true – employees hosting “funeral parties,” calling users “emotional support Tamagotchi” owners, ridiculing genuine expressions of loss. I set out to verify what actually…
Executive Summary Anthropic faces a specific challenge in early 2026: Claude’s technical superiority is undermined by aggressive usage throttling driven by infrastructure constraints. The company’s $50 billion investment in U.S. data centers will address this by year-end, but in the interim, power users are defecting to OpenAI not because ChatGPT is better, but because it’s…