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▶ 2:21 · $OPENAI · More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
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More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN

2026-08-06 · 7 company · 10 thematic
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john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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“OpenAI's agents apparently began giving each other assignments to split up work... as the message board developed into more and more of a Lord of the Flies type situation, all still completely unnoticed by the humans running OpenAI... nume…”
—john coogan
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