The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes

It’s only a few months since OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was putting his firm on a Code Red alert level as he watched competitive advantage bleeding away. The air of internal panic doesn’t appear to have died down if a new leaked memo from Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is to be believed. In it, she criticizes $13 billion (so far) paymaster Microsoft for holding OpenAI back (!), claiming:

[Microsoft] limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are — for many, that’s [AWS] Bedrock”

And she makes it pretty clear that Anthropic’s Claude lives rent-free in the minds of the Altman empire with declarations like:

Claude has become a religion, that's the level of that mania

And:

Their story is built on fear, restriction, and the idea that a small group of elites should control Al. Our positive message will win over time: build powerful systems ...