Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
The "burn" here is based, as I now know from OpenAI's audited financials, on what appears to be moving money around various unnamed entities. In any case, OpenAI spent $8.6 billion on R&D in Q1 2026, or a little less than half of its entire 2025 R&D spend ($19.18bn)
I tell people at cons that to stick with drawing or any kind of art, you need two things:
1) have so much fun you can’t stop
2) train yourself to have a high frustration tolerance
If you have 1 and not 2, you won’t improve. If you have 2 and not 1, it’s a miserable chore.
Then I show them this:
PSA for streamers who don't want stupid AI shit forced on their content, you can turn off the new "AI summary" thing that's been popping up in your dashboard under settings.
Absolute bars here:
"We've lost dozens of billions on this AI stuff? Well that's not so bad, we usually get hundreds of millions in profit each year and a 'billion' is just 'two millions', isn't it?"
- If some executive/shareholder said this out loud it would all finally make sense.
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The Seamless Co-op for Dark Souls 2 got a new teaser video + blog showcasing new features 😤
The mod will be getting 6 player co-op
You also be to scale enemies difficulty & add new optional mechanics akin to world tendency
As well as being able to make it to the end in a single session
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I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people.
But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA
‘Both cash burn and revenue tripled from the same period the previous year, signaling how even with strong AI demand, making money from AI continues to be challenging.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders. Both cash burn and revenue tripled fro...
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Epic releases Fortnite video that's trying to launder the company's use of AI in the art pipeline, but artists I spoke to simply aren't having it:
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