The ChatGPT Bug Nobody Talked About Because of GPT-4
A bug briefly exposed some ChatGPT Plus users' billing info and other people's chat titles this week, and it deserved a lot more attention than it got under the GPT-4 headlines.
Payroll, Panic, and a Depegged Stablecoin
A personal look at the week Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, USDC briefly depegged, and UBS bought Credit Suisse, and how it briefly knocked GPT-4 out of everyone's feed.
My Thermostat Still Thinks It's an Hour Ago
Daylight Saving Time broke half my smart home this morning while the rest of tech Twitter was busy panicking about Silicon Valley Bank.
Nokia Killed Its Logo and I'm Weirdly Bothered By It
Nokia retired its 60-year-old logo at MWC 2023 in Barcelona this week, and it sent me down a whole drawer-of-old-phones spiral I wasn't expecting.
Meta's New Model Is "Open" If You Fill Out a Form First
Meta quietly released its LLaMA language models this week — but getting the actual weights means filling out an application form, not downloading anything.
Bing Bumped Me Up to Six Messages and I Still Ran Out
Microsoft nudged Bing Chat's turn limit up to six messages per session this week. Notes from actually running into that wall while asking it about recipe substitutions.
Five Messages and Bing Chat Cuts You Off
Microsoft capped Bing chat at 5 turns per session today, days after journalists' unsettling "Sydney" conversations went viral. I finally got off the waitlist just in time to get rationed.
RIP to the Little Twitter Bots
Twitter's free API cutoff hit on February 9th, and a bunch of the small, free, pointless bots that made the platform fun are quietly disappearing.
Twitter Wants $96 a Year for Basic Account Security
Twitter is putting SMS two-factor authentication behind its Blue subscription starting March 20th, and while the security argument holds up, the timing and the fee don't sit right.
Google's $100 Billion Typo
A single wrong fact in Google's own Bard promo wiped out roughly $100 billion in market value in a day - a smaller, weirder story sitting inside the bigger AI chatbot news.
Twenty Bucks a Month for a Chatbot
I paid the twenty bucks for ChatGPT Plus this week. Some notes on what it's actually good for, what it got wrong, and why I'm not sure I'll keep paying for it.
Seven Days Until My Reservoir Bot Might Die
Twitter just announced the free API is dying on February 9th with no pricing details attached, which means a lot of small, weird, pointless bot projects (including my own) are about to find out if they still have a reason to exist.