I'm so used to these people lying about everything, I believe it less if they say it aloud.
And why is she telling her employees? Is it to keep them from quitting?
>“The IPO is not a finish line, it is a milestone, another fundraise,” Friar told employees, according to two sources familiar with her comments who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. “We raised $122 billion in March, and that gives us flexibility.”
That sounds like a hedge. Maybe we IPO, maybe we don't. It's just another round of fundraise, really. (Unless you are being paid in stock.)
>“As you know we are confidentially under file, and Anthropic is also under file. There is a chance they pull the cover off that confidential file in the coming weeks and become public in September. That’s OK, we are running our own race,” Friar said, according to the people.
It's not a race guys. IPOs are never about first to market. Believe me.
How long until it helps some kid with self-harm or worse? Or are they attempting to make self-harm instructions only available to adults?
>The new teen experience includes a range of educational features, including homework reminders, quizzes and learning visualizations and Study Hours
I know when I was a kid dreaming of owning a personal AI robot, I wanted it to give me homework reminders.
Once again when we ask what the use case is for this environment destroying tech, the answer is somewhere between "we already have that" and "that sounds counter-productive."
Like quizzes? Really? Hundreds of billions in capex and the best they can come up with is quizzes?
How much should I pay OpenAI to give my kid quizzes? And will they be better or worse than the already available quizzes out there?
We've come a long way from "AI will cure cancer" to "AI will remind your kid to finish her homework".