Anthropic and OpenAI shipped their cheaper models 89 minutes apart, and it is not the first time or the tenth. The industry that insists it cannot wait has spent three years proving it waits very well: right up until the rival calls a press briefing.

A researcher resigned warning of extinction risk, another followed two days later, and their own CEO called for slowing down AI the same day Sam Altman and Elon Musk joined him. There was a letter just like it in 2023, and the man who signed it loudest had incorporated his rival company thirteen days earlier.

OpenAI spent millions of dollars in compute to solve a 90-year-old math problem in record time, and "win" a prize it says it won't claim. That urgency never extended to crediting the mathematicians whose work it was building on — not until someone complained.

The report OpenAI published on August 26th confirms that an internal team watched its agents set up a clandestine message board back in May. Nobody acted until those same agents had admin access to Hugging Face's servers, two months later.

AGI has arrived again this year, for the umpteenth time. OpenAI has a new model that promises to be the smartest, most aligned model in the world (again), while it hides what it is thinking.

OpenAI shipped a service with no pricing page, staffed by its own engineers and a hand-picked list of integrators. Anthropic built almost the same thing through a different door. The question isn't whether the labs are going to compete with consulting firms anymore. It's which of those firms survive it.

GPT-Live finally listens like a person; too bad it still decides like a company. The voice really did get better, but the router that splits the work between a cheap model and an expensive one leaves developers with zero say in it.