OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News

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‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop

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“The irony of this posture is that there’s almost no sector of American life—with the notable exception of the tech world’s political retainers in the Trump White House—that is less welcoming to rigorous thinking than Silicon Valley. The apostles of algorithmic dominance cheerlead chatbots and technocratic shortcuts for thinking and reasoning, and use them extensively themselves, even though the models hallucinate and have a baleful tendency toward sycophancy. “Researchers found that nearly a dozen leading models were highly sycophantic,” a recent New York Times story on the explosion in AI chatbots reported, “taking the users’ side in interpersonal conflicts 49 percent more often than humans did—even when the user described situations in which they broke the law, hurt someone or lied.”

The obsequious intellectual concierges of the AI revolution also reduce cognitive strain on users, which further weakens their capacity for thinking. An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-anti-intellectualism/

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Throughout my career in the tech industry, I have witnessed companies fumbling the EEE strategy again and again, so I thought I'd explain how it actually works. Contrary to common believe, it does not stand for 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish', but simply for the sound the wyvern, that you put in the office for emotional support, makes.

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Variety | OpenAI Buys TBPN, a Daily Tech Talk Show, to Help Drive ‘Constructive Conversation’ About AI by Todd Spangler

Artificial-intelligence giant OpenAI has acquired TBPN, aka the Technology Business Programming Network, a media start-up that hosts a talk show about Silicon Valley and finance that has streamed online for about a year. “TBPN has built something pretty special,” Fidji Simo, CEO of applications at OpenAI, wrote in a memo to staffers. “It’s one of […]

Read more: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-buys-tbpn-talk-show-1236705671/

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All Content from Business Insider | Legendary VC firm Sequoia just released the memo for its Apple bet in 1977 — and it shows how far the iPhone maker has come by Theron Mohamed

Sequoia Capital has shared a relic of business history that centers on Apple and Steve Jobs.Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Sequoia Capital published founder Don Valentine's memo for his Apple investment in 1977.The VC firm shared it to mark the 50th anniversary of Apple's founding on April 1, 1976."Leading company in a hot biz … $600k buys 10% — very rich deal, management questionable," it reads.A legendary venture capitalist sealed one of Silicon Valley's most iconic deals when he invested in Apple back in 1977, the year after it was founded.

Sequoia Capital celebrated Apple's 50th anniversary on Wednesday by releasing the late Don Valentine's memo about Apple for the first time — and it shows just how far the computer maker has come.

— Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) April 1, 2026 First bite of the AppleRead the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/vc-firm-sequoia-apple-memo-jobs-buffett-computing-investing-stocks-2026-4

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Apple Lisa, MacIntosh, and a box
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA

A #ThrowbackThursday in honor of Apple's 50th anniversary.

At right a Lisa, in the middle the MacIntosh, and then some sort of ugly box 😉 Monitors above (somewhat cut off) display typical OS screens.

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TechSpot: $1,000-a-month basic income program launches for workers displaced by AI. “AI Dividend issues a no-strings payment of $1,000 a month for a year to between 25 and 50 workers impacted by AI. Organizers say they have $300,000 in initial funding. The goal is to distribute $3 million in funds in 2026, an ambitious target they hope to achieve by pushing AI companies to contribute to the […]

LiveScience: Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What’s really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.. “While Meta wasn’t the only company touting a new generation of VR, it’s a fairly damning indictment of the faith the technology industry has in this concept. But does that mean it’s dead and buried for good? Although it was a non-starter for many, for others, […]

The Indypendent: Meet the Tech Workers Organizing Against Their Employers. “N is a part of No Tech for Apartheid (NOTA), an organization of tech workers that has burgeoned since Israel’s escalation of its genocide in Gaza in the past two and a half years. NOTA was created in October 2021, following the establishment of a $1.2 billion cloud contract between Israel, Google and Amazon called […]