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Breaking News: Bill Gates once warned Satya Nadella that investing in OpenAI was like “burning $1 billion.” Despite the risk, Microsoft went ahead and that gamble reshaped the future of AI and Big Tech.
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They tried this before and killed it for being too creepy. Now they're trying again.
What you need to know:
The glasses look totally normal (you can even get prescription lenses), but they have cameras that can scan your face and pull up your info using AI. People around you can't consent or opt out.
Meta's internal docs say they're launching when advocacy groups are "focused on other concerns." They know this is sketchy.
The recording light can be turned off, so you literally won't know if someone's scanning you.
This is different from someone obviously pointing a phone at you. These are invisible. Someone in line at Starbucks could be running your face through Meta's database and you'd have no clue.
⚠️ Why it matters: Facial recognition is notoriously inaccurate and biased. It's led to false arrests. And Meta might already be training AI on photos from these glasses without telling anyone.
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Even the guy who cofounded Microsoft thought backing OpenAI in 2019 was a waste of money.
What happened:
Gates straight up told Nadella "you're going to burn this billion dollars" when Microsoft invested in OpenAI. Remember, this was a nonprofit AI lab with no revenue.
Nadella admits he had no idea it would blow up like this. He literally said "I didn't put in a billion dollars saying this is going to be a hundred bagger."
Fast forward to now: Microsoft's stake is worth $135 billion and OpenAI added $7.6 billion to Microsoft's bottom line in January alone.
This is wild because even the smartest people in tech got it completely wrong. Gates thought it was burning cash. Nadella took the risk anyway without expecting it to be this huge.
✅ The takeaway: Sometimes the best bets look terrible to everyone around you, including literal billionaire tech founders. Risk tolerance matters more than consensus.
An 18-year-old's violent ChatGPT chats got flagged and banned in June 2025, but OpenAI didn't alert police until after she killed eight people.
What went down:
OpenAI's monitoring tools caught Jesse Van Rootselaar's violent gun content and banned her in June. Staff debated calling Canadian police but decided it "didn't meet the criteria."
She wasn't exactly hiding it. Van Rootselaar made a mass shooting game on Roblox (a kids platform), posted about guns on Reddit, and local cops already knew about her setting fires while on drugs.
OpenAI only contacted authorities after the shooting in February 2026. Eight months too late.
Here's the problem: AI companies can see when someone's planning violence, but there's no rulebook for when they should actually do something about it. OpenAI saw red flags everywhere and chose to wait.
⚠️ This is only going to get messier. Multiple lawsuits already claim chatbots are encouraging suicide and breakdowns. Now we know companies are catching violent plans and just... debating internally?
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