OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history | TechCrunch

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

TechCrunch

The connotations of the word "stupid" have spread to overlap with "destructive," "unwise," "immoral," and "deceptive."

All of the following numbers are stupid:

"OpenAI has raised $110 billion in [more, new] private funding. The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion pre-money valuation."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/

#ai #bubble #aibubble #aibullshit

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history | TechCrunch

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

TechCrunch

It was like being in some sort of prosperity theology church or "manifesting" seminar. It was genuinely insane.

Oh, and they had a short talk from a homeopath beforehand.

It was cultish and bonkers.

#ai #llm #aibullshit #homeopathy #woowoo

Die #Telekom führt jetzt einen KI-Agenten an, den man per Sprache einfach in ein bestehendes Gespräch reinholen können soll.
Ich habe erhebliche Zweifel, dass das in Deutschland ein Erfolg wird.

Ich habe noch nichts gefunden, ob der Quatsch immer aktiv und ob und wie ich das ausschalte.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/ki-assistent-fuer-telefonate-telekom-stellt-neues-system-vor-accg-110842657.html
(Paywall!)

#aibullshit #aifromhell

KI-Assistent für Telefonate: Telekom stellt neues System vor

Mitten im Telefonat könnte bald eine neue Stimme auftauchen: ein sprachgestützter KI-Assistent, der Restaurants in der Nähe finden, live übersetzen oder Termine im Kalender notieren soll. Ins Leben gerufen hat die Idee die Deutsche Telekom.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Seit ich die aktuelle Brutsaison der Kākāpō verfolge, verbinde ich mit der Abkürzung AI zuerst "artificial insemination" und das macht die Welt irgendwie angenehmer

https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kakapo-recovery/

#kakapo #AIBullshit

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Microsoft Uses Plagiarized AI Slop Flowchart To Explain How Git Works

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people to their limits, mostly by how such ‘AI s…

Hackaday
I mean, this is just embarrassing and silly.
> a three-minute sci-fi short film > Others pointed to limitations, including inconsistent physics, occasional visual artefacts and a lack of narrative depth, suggesting that while the imagery appears polished, the storytelling remains minimal.
I think if you get this uniform of a response from pretty much every single corner of the site about how bad your writing take is, and you double down on that take, then you should at least have to change your account name from "Every Writer" to "A Single Writer".
Thomas Germain (@thomasgermain.bsky.social)

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

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