Sam Says Some Things

Sam Altman has a lot of stuff to say about AI and let’s just say comms needs to have a quiet word with him. SaaS may or may not be dead, but is the replacement vertical AI? And a big thought experiment. If the AI bulls are right and AI transforms the economy, what might that look like?

• Sam Altman Says Companies Are ‘AI Washing’ Layoffs (Gizmodo)
• People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much. (NYTimes)
• Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (TechCrunch)
• Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open. (Garry's List)
• Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban (Implicator.ai)
• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS (Citrini Research)

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