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Why I really pushed to talk to OpenAI's Greg Brockman for my latest Fortune story

Hint: I can think of $1.4 trillion worth of reasons
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AI data centers affecting the November election was not on my bingo card
In my central New Jersey town, there is plenty of talk about massive, invasive infrastructure taking over communities.
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AI Side Chat Vol 2: VentureBeat's Carl Franzen on why not all AI art is 'slop' – and why his Substack is for a new creative culture
For my second AI Side Chat, I chatted with my former colleague Carl Franzen about why he was all-in on AI art from the start
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‘AI bubble’ is today’s clickbait — but it’s really a narrative disguised as gospel
The phrase drive clicks, but it's about far more than the stock market. Mostly it reveals how little we really know about what AI will become.
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Behind the reporting: The improbable $1.5B AGI bet of a 23-year-old ex–OpenAI researcher
I spent the past few weeks digging into how Leopold Aschenbrenner went from getting fired at OpenAI to managing a $1.5 billion hedge fund — and what his…
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On the ground in Texas for Sam Altman’s power trip: What I saw inside OpenAI’s gigawatt arms race
Altman’s pitch is simple: more compute, more power, more AI. What that looks like on the ground is staggering.
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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee is just the latest hurdle for AI talent in the U.S.
In a January article for Fortune tied to the inauguration, I deeply researched the ‘sense of panic’ felt by immigrant AI talent who worried Trump could…
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On a real mountain under sunny skies, why talk about AI? Because we are there to talk about AI
At 8300 feet, the altitude at Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, bothers me a bit.
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AI Side Notes with Sharon Goldman
AI Side Notes with Sharon Goldman
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