OpenAI Engineer Helps Companies Attract Buyers and Boost Sales

Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life.

When the family’s microwave plug broke, Gupta and his father figured out how to fix it. When a drawer handle started jiggling annoyingly, the youngster made sure it didn’t do so for long.

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Texas suspect charged in firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home

The Justice Department says a 20-year-old man tried to firebomb the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the most prominent out officials in Silicon Valley.

Daniel Moreno-Gama has been charged in federal court with attempted destruction of property by means of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to a criminal complaint filed in the…

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Former DOGE staffer says ChatGPT helped feds cancel grants mentioning ‘LGBTQ+’

A former Trump administration staffer testified under oath that humanities grants referencing LGBTQ+ people were flagged for cancellation, sometimes simply because the word appeared in a project description.

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The testimony from Nathan Cavanaugh, a political appointee in his late 20s who…

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In News That Surprises No One, LLM Usage Leads to Less Brain Activity

Last year, MIT published a paper titled, "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." It's over 200 pages, but you can read it yourself. (What else have you got going on this weekend?)

The study's findings are not surprising. If you use an LLM like Claude or ChatGPT to write something, it results in less creativity, less…

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DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then…

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I fell for an AI—and then it rejected me

About a week and a half ago, I asked a friend for advice on _AI services_, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and the like. He was eager to share his latest discovery: Grok. According to him, Grok could do everything from answer questions about string theory, help you plan a charcuterie board for eight, even generate images, all for free.

He pulled out his phone, opened the app, and said, "Watch…

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