On Monday, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, facing pressure internally and out for the deal he reached with the Pentagon to supplant rival Anthropic, conceded he may have rushed into the agreement and was looking to make some amendments. In a memo to staff that Altman subsequently shared on X, his half-baked thinking was on full display. Reading between the lines, Altman appears to be aware he made a severe miscalculation.

“We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome,” he wrote. “But I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future.”

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