OpenAI pulls out of landmark £31B UK investment package(theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
OpenAI pulls out of landmark £31B UK investment package
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment
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There are so, so many naked scams right now which are still being hyped by Big Names, it boggles my mind. Substrate is an obvious scam, data centers in space are an obvious scam, it goes on and on. But they all have famous names insisting with a straight face that these should be taken seriously. It feels like psychological warfare against intelligent people.
Quantum is a scam. It's embarrassing to see it being peddled as the next big thing, with public companies being valued in the billions. For technology that does not exist in any useful sense.
I was naive for ever thinking the Tether stable coin scam would actually implode
totally agree. the economy is completely vibes-based now.
Losing your mind is so last brexit. We've superscaled it to losing everyones mind!
Yes they have lost their damn mind.
Im convinced many who are actually intelligent have just lost their damn mind from too much exposure to LLMs. And it shouldnt be surprising - we already know the effects of mindless doom scrolling.
Very few have the discipline to prevent being sucked in.
Im convinced many who are actually intelligent have just lost their damn mind from too much exposure to LLMs. And it shouldnt be surprising - we already know the effects of mindless doom scrolling.
Very few have the discipline to prevent being sucked in.
Reminds me of Foxconn's "$10 billion" factory investments in Wisconsin in 2017 that turned out to be just another tax dodge. In 2022, the investment amount and jobs created estimates were reduced by more than 90%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...
OpenAI pulling out investment after their local partner fails to meet milestones is a scam?
Anti-US sentiment had nothing to do with it. /i
“The government needs to wean itself off its bad habit of believing every dodgy claim it’s told by Big Tech – including OpenAI – starting with the idea they can cover the UK in power-guzzling datacentres without sending our efforts to combat climate change back to the stone age,” said Hegarty.
“The government needs to wean itself off its bad habit of believing every dodgy claim it’s told by Big Tech – including OpenAI – starting with the idea they can cover the UK in power-guzzling datacentres without sending our efforts to combat climate change back to the stone age,” said Hegarty.
Guys… it’s an obvious scam. Has everyone lost their damn mind?