For the last 6 months, I’ve been embedded in OpenAI and Microsoft, studying how they build AI. Then Sam Altman was fired, sparking a five-day crisis that some insiders started calling the “Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck.” I had a front row seat. 🧵
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker — A must read. Charles Duhigg is this generation’s Atul Gawande meets Malcolm Gladwell. Absolute cutting edge reporting.
Time to fire up the Christmas playlists.
Inside the Lego’s Quest for the Next Hit Toy Set: Four Years, 30,000 Kids and Countless Bricks - WSJ
Lego has improbably become the world’s biggest toy company by selling the same product for 70 years. It does this by constantly coming up with new themes for its little plastic bricks. Lately many of Lego’s biggest moneymakers have been sets based on Harry Potter, Star Wars and other big entertainment brands—but the company has to share revenues with the owners of those franchises. Now it wants to come up with a new brand that it controls, a labor-intensive and risky undertaking. Can it make something as beloved as Hermione Granger, Luke Skywalker or Thor?
Apps that I got on Black Friday