#OpenAI

#OpenAI

The rivalry between xAI and OpenAI is heating up again - this time, over wood-fired pizza. Over the weekend, Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer jockeyed on X about wood-fired crusts, dough fermentation, and campus chefs. On its face, it was a lighthearted back-and-forth about free pizza for lunch. Underneath, it encapsulates a trend playing out in Silicon Valley: rival AI companies are publicly pitching culture - and perks like free lunch - in the talent war for top engineers.

"I think I am unusually good at projecting multiple things- years or a couple of decades into the future-and understanding how those are going to interact together," Altman told Forbes in February. What is clear is that in 2026 and beyond, OpenAI and Altman have a lot riding on his vision. In 2022, Altman oversaw the release of ChatGPT, kicking off what Bill Gates called "the age of AI."

Now that obsequiousness could be coming back to haunt them. As reported by MIT Technology Review, activists critical of the Trump administration and the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have started a campaign called QuitGPT, urging regular users to ditch OpenAI's chatbot for good. So far, the campaign boasts over 700,000 supporters of the boycott. The QuitGPT website lists a few different ways to participate: quitting ChatGPT outright, cancelling paid subscriptions, and spreading the word about the boycott with others on social media.

According to the company behind ChatGPT, DeepSeek is systematically attempting to extract knowledge from leading American AI systems in order to improve its own models. In the memo, which OpenAI sent to the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, OpenAI outlines attempts to circumvent technical and access restrictions. The company claims that accounts linked to DeepSeek employees have developed methods to access AI models via external, obfuscated network routes.

From coding tools and chatbots to smart assistants and wearables, the commercials suggest the industry is moving past the hype and skepticism and is betting on mainstream AI adoption. With 30-second spots averaging about $8 million, companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and Meta used the broadcast to explain what their technology does and why it matters to consumers and businesses alike.

The way that these companies sort of cite not just you, but everybody on the Internet is they paraphrase the content, and then they put a little circle with a number, you sort of click to get more information from where the sources are. How do you like, if you could wave a magic wand or on your blackboard, like, what do you want it to look like so that you have a way to drive people more deeply into the Reddit, Inc. conversational content?