Today's Briefing for Thursday, February 26, 2026
OpenAI Deleted ‘Safely.’ NVIDIA Reports. Karpathy Is Still Learning
THE NUMBER: 6 — times OpenAI changed its mission in 9 years. The most recent edit deleted one word: safely. TL;DR Andrej Karpathy — the engineer who wrote the curriculum that trained a generation of developers, ran AI at Tesla, and helped found OpenAI — posted in December that he's never felt so behind as a programmer. Fourteen million people saw it. Tonight, NVIDIA reports Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings after market close: analysts expect $65.7 billion in revenue, up 67% year over year. The numbers will almost certainly land. What matters is what Jensen Huang says about the next two quarters to a room full of people who've started wondering if the AI capex boom is built on solid ground. And this week, Sam Altman flew to India and called AI water usage concerns "completely untrue, totally insane," while OpenAI quietly completed a for-profit restructuring that removed the word "safely" from its mission statement for the first...
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