Corporate Gossip

• Sam Altman & Open AI Part 2: King D*ck of Liar Mountain

  Please rate and review this podcast! We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also Sam Altman stands on his tippytoes.  Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Today's sponsors are Darling Beasts, a book by Michelle Gable and The Talent Spot Advertise with us!   Pictures from this episode Submit a good news story by email to our good news correspondent [email protected]  Links:  Empire of AI (Book)  ‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech AI is draining water from Areas that need it most Small Oregon county reckons with fallout from data center scandal Arizona city defeats massive data center project over water, energy concerns Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ TIME100 AI 2024: Mophat Okinyi  

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• [Patreon Exclusive] Outdoor Voices: Ty Haney's Groundhog Day

  Listen to the full episode on Patreon Become a listener-advertiser on the podcast! Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this brand's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's private equity investors to LET IT GO!??? In this highly-requested episode, we figure out how the once beloved brand got so weird and shitty. Links: Outdoor Voices Became A Staple For Millennial Cool Girls Thanks To Its Chill Aesthetic. Employees Say They Were Drowning. Outdoor Voices Founder Ty Haney Has Moved On. Mostly. Three years after her dramatic exit as CEO, she still has some things she’d like to say. How Outdoor Voices, a Start-Up Darling, Imploded Ty Haney is Elon Musk's Reply Guy

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• OpenAI & Sam Altman's Sad Sack Band of Goons

  Please rate and review this podcast! CW: Child Sexual Assault  Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ???  Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Watch on Youtube  Today's sponsors are Brick of Chicago and Neurorenew PT Advertise with us!  Pictures from the episode Submit a good news story by email to our good news correspondent [email protected]  Links:  You look like a thing and I love you (Book) Empire of AI (Book)  The Worst Hard Time (Book)  Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep A.I. Out of the Hands of the “Bad Guys”  Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees Know Your Rights Virtual Workshop  

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• [Patreon Exclusive] Uber Clown Car

  To listen to the full episode  join us on Patreon Buckle up! We're covering the BOMBSHELL NYT investigation that dropped yesterday (August 6th) by Emily Steel called Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem. Content warning: drug use, sexual assault, sexual violence Other links: Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture MTA crime report 2019 Uber Safety Reports 2017 - 2022 What unionization could mean for California Uber and Lyft drivers — and riders Support the SEIU!

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• Match.com / Tinder: Boy Boss Amateur Hour

  Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!? This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal document by the light of a glow-stick! And while they were partying, Barry Diller was scheming from his megayacht. Soon, their viral app would be swiped from under them.  Join the Patreon for bonus episodes! Watch on Youtube  Advertise on Corporate Gossip Pictures from today's episode  10:00 - Intro  23:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: Here, put on this bedsheet and gladiator sandals, we’re going to a COLLEGE TOGA PARTY!! FOR BUSINESS!!  37:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: Business daddy issues  46:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: Tinder founders - “we’re stupid, BUT we’re also sexual harassers, (allegedly)" 51:30 - Corporate Gossip #4: Nanci Jo Sales strikes  56:30 - Corporate Gossip #5: The VC urge to give a bunch of 20 somethings a million dollars and no oversight  1:04:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Literally Match I Double dog dare you to find someone to be CEO who isn’t a dumb creep 1:12:25 - Corporate Gossip #7: Nasty Grams from Blatt 1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip#8: Follow up & Takeaways  Links:  Mr. (Swipe) Right? ‘Sodomy’ and scandal: Tinder’s thoroughly embarrassing stock-market debut  A Tinder Revenge Story The revolutionary dating app made a lot of people rich. Co-founder Sean Rad didn’t feel rich enough. An Open Letter to Tinder’s Sean Rad from V.F.’s Nancy Jo Sales Thank you to today's sponsors!  Karinas Confectioneries Ellin Lolis    

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