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BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun

Gary Marcus
Aug 19, 2026 at 06:43
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BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun

The opening stages of OpenAI’s unraveling, which I first warned about in January 2024 (if not before), have begun.To begin with, hardly anyone trusts them anymore, which can’t be great for business.Take the reaction to OpenAIs Sam Altman’s latest announcement, on Tuesday August 18 (i.e., “earlier today” for those of us on the West Coast), that OpenAI would be pausing, ostensibly for safety reasoning:As far as I can tell, hardly anyone believed him.The best one line translation came from the user @NIK on X: Slightly elaborated:And, here’s where things get worse. It turns out people were very likely right to be skeptical, because The Wall Street Journal’s Berber Jin and Corrie Dribusch just dropped...

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