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Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman

Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.

Airbnb-CEO und Altman-Freund hält ChatGPT für nicht bereit
Brian Chesky möchte seinen Dienst, Airbnb, noch nicht an ChatGPT als App anbinden – das sei nicht robust genug.
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Sources say transfers of employees from NOAA research to other line offices are being denied.
Does the administration fear the corrupting influence of those engaged in NOAA research?
Or maybe it's punitive?
Either way, seems like NOAA research personnel are being blacklisted.
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Alt NOAA Climate (@altnoaaclimate.bsky.social)
Sources say transfers of employees from NOAA research to other line offices are being denied. Does the administration fear the corrupting influence of those engaged in NOAA research? Or maybe it's punitive? Either way, seems like NOAA research personnel are being blacklisted.

Time promotes Alex Altman, previously deputy Washington bureau chief and executive features editor, to executive editor (Ray Schultz/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/408495/time-names-alex-altman-as-executive-edit…

'Time' Names Alex Altman As Executive Editor
Altman will lead the search for a senior political correspondent.

Sam Altman's next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain https://www.theverge.com/column/806666/sam-altman-merge-labs-brain-computer-interface-startup-hire (archived at

Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain
Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he’s set to announce soon with co-founder Alex Blania.

Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/altman-taps-leading-researcher-for

Altman taps leading researcher for BCI startup Merge Labs
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.

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The Rentals:
🎵 Friends of P.
#TheRentals
https://allthingsweezer.bandcamp.com/track/brownstones19-and-lazrpo-friends-of-p-the-rentals
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AmWN7CxtKW6BlDhqEF64H

OpenAI-Chef Altman: KI als Chance für Ärzte und Patienten
Gute-Nacht-Geschichten und Gesundheitstipps: Was OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman über die Chancen von ChatGPT verrät – und was ein Ex-Formel-1-Star damit zu tun hat.

Frischer Wind auf alten Plattformen im Retro-Bereich
Retro-Games sind mehr als Nostalgie: Die Gamescom 2025 zeigt Beispiele dafür, wie sich die Tradition mit Neuveröffentlichungen im alten Stil fortführen lässt.
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Hitze trifft alle – aber nicht alle Länder reagieren gleich. Der Kommentar hält Deutschland vor, Klimaanlagen aus moralischem Reflex abzulehnen, obwohl sie technisch dasselbe Prinzip nutzen wie die hierzulande gefeierte Wärmepumpe, nur mit umgekehrter Prozessrichtung. Gerade in unseren Breiten arbeiten Kälteanlagen oft dann, wenn Photovoltaik reichlich Strom liefert – das senkt die CO₂-Last. 🧊
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