• I can fail to do it for just $1 billion.
  
  Chip architect Jim Keller - involved in the creation of AMD's Athlon, Hammer, and Zen CPUs, DEC's Alpha, and Apple's A4 and A5 cores - told Sam Altman that he could achieve OpenAI's chip production dreams for one seventh of their budget.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which to be fair is still $1 trillion, or as much as the entire industry spends on new chip factories in ten years.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Two Q1 PCs were found intact in a box by a cleaning company in England.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Q1 PC is little known, but it was one of the first ever personal computers.
  
  Introduced in 1972 - four years before the Apple I, two years before the S-100 bus - it was powered by an Intel 8008 and 16k of RAM.
  
  
  
• Reddit has reportedly signed a licensing deal to hand its content to an AI company.  (Mashable)
  
  This is the real reason Reddit killed its API.
  
  No details yet on who or how much.
  
  
  
• Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip.  (Vgel is Me)
  
  That might be somewhat hard to parse, but the article discusses, in detail, how to make an LLM (specifically here the open-source Mistral) act as if it were on drugs.
  
  Or merely very depressed.
  
  
  
• On the other end of the scale, a new AI chatbot called Goody-2 follows such strict ethical rules that it refuses to discuss anything at all.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  This is art.