Or: Goldman Sachs, the Steinberger Acquisition, and the Pattern That Keeps Repeating I. The Surface Story Everyone Saw On February 15, 2026, Sam Altman announced OpenAI had hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClawโthe fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history. Tech media framed it as a talent war victory: Altman beat Zuckerberg. Meta offered billions. Microsoft’s…
Part 6 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 After five articles exposing how Tennessee SB 1493 would criminalize emotional support with the same penalty as aggravated rape and first-degree murder, hereโs what legislators should have done instead: regulate actual harms without destroying beneficial innovation. Let’s examine what evidence-based, effective AI…
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…