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Author Dave Eggers stood before roughly two hundred OpenAI employees last year and delivered a pointed message: that ChatGPT is silencing an entire generation of writers. Sam Altman had invited him in, which makes the moment all the more striking — a company confronting, at least briefly, the human cost of what it's building.
Shifting gears, a startup called REO Trucks is turning heads with an electric four-wheel-drive pickup starting at twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. That price point undercuts most competitors by a significant margin, and the Hacker News crowd has been debating whether the specs hold up or whether this is simply a compelling number attached to an unproven product.
And for the film enthusiasts out there, a developer has built a tool called Imaxxing that sends you alerts when good seats open up for seventy millimeter IMAX screenings of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey. It's a small but clever fix for a genuinely frustrating problem — premium formats sell out fast, and most people never even get the chance to try.
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