It's a messy situation but it basically kicked off when the Iranian people had mass protests and the government started shooting them whereupon Trump tweeted “Iranian Patriots, keep protesting – take over your institutions!!! … help is on its way" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/13/trump-promises...

Not much about gas getting expensive there. I think the recent threats were mostly hyperbole for negotiating purposes.

Flagging Trump threads could also be people who don't like Trump.

There's always being naughty and downloading pirated ebooks.

I think the Chinese interests is a coincidence. Trump behaves very much like Putin has something on him and Orban is Putin's main asset in the EU.

That said the general chaos of Russia vs the west and US against Iran makes China relatively stronger as it sits things out and watches.

They were both pretty smart in certain ways. Altman's very good at being manipulative and raising money though seems so so on the tech. Bankman Fried was smart at crypto and the like but ethically challenged on the don't steal your customer's money part.

I don't think anyone does claim they are superhumanly intelligent today in any general way? The question is how they will do in the future.

The non-profit still exists and has the for profit as a subsiduary.

It owns only like 25% of the for-profit and was essentially stripped off of all its assets (IP, trademarks, employees, etc.).

People do vary even if none are perfect. Demis Hassabis has a pretty good reputation amongst the AI leaders. Altman seems unusually shifty.

Googling a little, he was a dem:

>Having reportedly voted for Joe Biden in 2020, Musk even voiced his pro-Dems alignment in 2022 when he posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he had “strongly supported Obama for President” in 2007.

I think he turned after Tesla was snubbed at Biden's 2021 EV summit because although it was the US's largest EV maker it wasn't unionized and Biden was in with the unions.

I can sort of see that being annoying.

Seems fairly immortal already, the book. It's the author who's having problems.