An update to More Magic Math from OpenAI The final mad dash to IPO is on for the big AI companies. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all made their intentions clear. And nothing could be more obvi…
It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.
It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]
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A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch
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Simon Willison on Twitter / X
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't https://t.co/bZ0Qqx9Sa9— Simon Willison (@simonw) April 10, 2026
OpenAI says it plans to stop supplying models to Cursor on Nov. 12 after SpaceX's acquisition. Cursor says OpenAI is about 5% of its traffic. Anthropic says it will increase Claude compute. This is not just another Musk–Altman fight. It tests whether model APIs are actually neutral infrastructure.
