Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to), page 11

This future sucks

Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.

A former Open AI researcher argues that while AI may take people’s jobs, it will unleash such massive productivity gains that we’ll all get $10,000 a month unemployment checks.

Problem solved.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-openai-miles-brundage-ubi-ai-jobs-market-2025-8

Nick Clegg really nails the most disappointing and pathetic aspect of Silicon Valley. It’s an industry full of the richest and most powerful people in history, who believe they’re victims because their power is not absolute and others dare to question them.

It hurts to be so rich yet not be treated like kings by us “peasants.”

The most shocking thing to me about the US government getting 10% of Intel is that it’s only worth $10B-$11B. For comparison, 10% of Microsoft is worth $370B.

I recall when Microsoft was 2x the market cap of Intel. 37x is a huge divergence of fortunes for the Wintel monopoly.

Time to sell your Microsoft stock. 🙃

https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-to-take-on-microsoft-with-macrohard

Still mind blowing that Elon may have successfully rescued Twitter’s ads business by suing all the advertisers that left because he turned it into a Nazi bar.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/verizon-bought-10m-in-ads-on-x-to-avoid-lawsuit-from-musk-report-says/

Your next lawyer will be rocking this according to the founder of Google’s generative AI team.

Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool.

Makes you wonder…

Remember just a few years ago when we were telling people to learn to code and get a CS degree?

If you told me MSNBC replaced their marketing department with ChatGPT to execute this rebrand, I’d believe it.

It’s kinda crazy that we now live in a world where it’s assumed that computers will write better stories than you, paint better than you and create software better than you. And your competitive advantage is now that you can fix toilets and flip burgers while computers can’t.

For now.

Trump reading Gavin Newsom’s tweets like…

The @financialtimes talks about how GPT-5’s middling performance on benchmarks may be a sign that the approach of scaling LLMs by training them with more data and compute has reached diminishing returns.

The article also argues that the Trump administration being comfortable with Nvidia selling GPUs to China is this sense that AI isn’t getting exponentially smarter nor is a national security threat.

Even if LLMs have plateaued, AI apps are just getting started.

https://www.ft.com/content/d01290c9-cc92-4c1f-bd70-ac332cd40f94

I’m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We don’t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

Sam Altman recently had dinner with reporters to talk about OpenAI’s future. It was an interesting contrast that while the reporters wanted to talk about GPT-5’s controversial rollout, Altman had already moved on.

The company is launching an AI powered hardware device, browser, and social app. It also plans to back a brain-computer interface company similar to NeuraLink.

It clearly wants to be the next big tech.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-over-bread-rolls-explores-life-after-gpt-5/

I’ve found it very unserious that many companies have decided you need to be in the office five-days-a-week to take Zoom calls because the pandemic is over but haven’t brought in-person interviews back.

In the era of ChatGPT and North Korean hackers faking their way into getting hired, it shows a distinct misunderstanding of threats.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-job-interview-virtual-in-person-305f9fd0?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content

Illinois joins Utah and Nevada in regulating usage of AI for treating mental health.

Licensed therapists in Illinois are now banned from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks.

Since Congress has decided not to regulate AI federally, we will end up with a patchwork of regulations across the country.
https://www.webpronews.com/illinois-bans-ai-chatbots-in-therapy-without-oversight/

Epic series of tweets by Gavin Newsom. He nailed the style perfectly. Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

Some groups have started giving up on taking cases to the Supreme Court because it now shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."

This is the conclusion of net neutrality advocates after telecom groups successfully won a case challenging net neutrality rules that were reinstated by Biden. They see no point in appealing the case given the reality of the current SCOTUS.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/net-neutrality-advocates-wont-appeal-loss-say-they-dont-trust-supreme-court/