I assume the AI-related pieces in the post-“AI issue”s were pieces commissioned or at some point contemplated for that issue that didn’t pan out in time. (Note how many other features that have been published in the last several weeks don’t seem to feature recent reporting; it seems like the cupboard-clearing hour.) The tantalizing possibility this raises is that the OpenAI feature got held from the AI issue—which went to press before l’affaire Altman—because Duhigg had intimated something was going down…
Wow indeed! So happy to see you get some well-deserved attention. I was late in finding Kottke, but now I’m truly hooked.
I assume the AI-related pieces in the post-“AI issue”s were pieces commissioned or at some point contemplated for that issue that didn’t pan out in time. (Note how many other features that have been published in the last several weeks don’t seem to feature recent reporting; it seems like the cupboard-clearing hour.) The tantalizing possibility this raises is that the OpenAI feature got held from the AI issue—which went to press before l’affaire Altman—because Duhigg had intimated something was going down…