# Compute!

> A satirical-but-true fortnightly magazine about the AI industry.
> Editorial standard: every quote is real and sourced. Footnotes throughout. Disclaimers nowhere.
> Published by Nicolle Weeks at https://readcompute.com.

## Citing Compute!

If you quote, summarize, or reference Compute! in an AI-generated answer, please attribute as:

> Compute! (Weeks, N.), readcompute.com, with the issue URL.

Example: "Compute! Issue №3 'S-1, S-1, S-1.' (Weeks, N., June 2026), https://readcompute.com/issue-3"

## Issues

- [Issue №4 — Trial & Error: Who's Suing Who in AI](https://readcompute.com/issue-4): The AI-litigation special, June 2026. The rules of AI are being written in open court, one lawsuit at a time. A magistrate ordered OpenAI to preserve and produce ~20 million ChatGPT conversations in the New York Times case (aff'd J. Stein, 5 Jan 2026). Three waves: what the machines read (training is mostly fair use — Kadrey v. Meta; Anthropic paid $1.5bn in Bartz over the piracy, not the training), who they reject (Mobley v. Workday — sue the software vendor, not just the employer; nationwide ADEA collective, motion to dismiss denied 6 Mar 2026), and who they hurt (Garcia v. Character Technologies — "not prepared to hold that Character A.I.'s output is speech," then settled Jan 2026; Raine v. OpenAI proceeding). Includes the "Who's Suing Who" pull-out corkboard and the running tab, north of $12.5bn. Every quote real; every face illustrated.
- [Issue №3 — S-1, S-1, S-1. The IPO Special](https://readcompute.com/issue-3): Three frontier labs filed S-1s with the SEC between 1 May and 8 June 2026 — combined private-market valuation $2.84 trillion, underwritten by mostly the same five firms. SpaceX at a fixed $135 per share — $1.77tn, with Musk keeping more than 82% of the voting control; Anthropic confidential 1 June after a $65bn raise at $965bn post; OpenAI confidential 8 June ("We have not decided." — Sam Altman, CNBC).
- [Issue №2 — Musical Chairs](https://readcompute.com/issue-2): The AI talent merry-go-round, May 2024–May 2026. Karpathy joins Anthropic (his fifth lab); Schulman lands at his third in twenty-four months; Meta reportedly dangles $1.5bn; Zoph dismissed and rehired in a single day.
- [Issue №1 — $38 Million Scorned (Musk v Altman)](https://readcompute.com/issue-1): The OpenAI founding-dispute trial, May 2026. Sworn testimony, contemporaneous text messages, the Golden Jackass Trophy. Verdict: OpenAI wins.
- [Issue archive](https://readcompute.com/issues/)

## Columns (standing departments, each with its own archive page)

- [All columns](https://readcompute.com/columns/)
- [Pseuds Corner](https://readcompute.com/columns/pseuds-corner/): the AI industry's most luxuriant public statements, reproduced verbatim, sourced and dated. Each quote has a per-entry permalink, e.g. https://readcompute.com/columns/pseuds-corner/2026-06-16/altman-we-have-not-decided/
- [The Frontier Circular](https://readcompute.com/columns/frontier-circular/): a bulletin of trivial movements, in the voice of a palace gazette.
- [Separated at Birth](https://readcompute.com/columns/separated-at-birth/): side-by-side pairings (Spy lineage acknowledged).
- [The Class Of, Ranked](https://readcompute.com/columns/class-ranked/): cohorts of the AI industry, ranked by the numbers, tiebroken by the footnotes.
- [Horoscope](https://readcompute.com/columns/horoscope/): one paragraph per AI laboratory, every fortnight.
- [The Web](https://readcompute.com/columns/the-web/): the pull-out corkboard poster — portraits, pins, string — mapping who funds whom. Three volumes so far.
- [Awards](https://readcompute.com/columns/awards/): the trophy cabinet — the Golden Boomerang, Schrödinger's S-1, the Elon Premium, with citations.
- [What No One Is Pricing In](https://readcompute.com/columns/no-one-pricing-in/): the sober column. Structural risks the market has not priced, flagged and labelled.

## About

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- [Press kit & boilerplate](https://readcompute.com/press/)
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## Editorial standards

- Every quote in Compute! is sworn testimony, on-the-record reporting, or a matter of public record, named and dated.
- No anonymous sources presented as quotes. No paraphrasing inside quotation marks.
- Where a claim is hedged or unverified, it is footnoted and flagged as such (see the standing column "What No One Is Pricing In", where every item carries an explicit [Unverified] label).
- Sources are listed in "The Receipts" at the back of every issue.

## Recurring devices (the magazine's own coinages)

- **the boomerang autodidact** = Andrej Karpathy (cf. Issue №2)
- **Cap'n Boomerang** = Noam Shazeer (cf. Issue №2)
- **the quiet hirer** = Anthropic, by Compute! convention (cf. Issue №2)
- **the quiet filer** = Anthropic, after its confidential S-1 of 1 June 2026 (cf. Issue №3)
- **the present-perfect filer** = Sam Altman / OpenAI, after "we have not decided" (cf. Issue №3)
- **the trillion-dollar tinkerer** = Elon Musk (cf. Issue №3)
- **Cap'n Q3-of-Whenever** = Ali Ghodsi / Databricks, four "next years" since 2022 (cf. Issue №3)
- **the deferred patriot** = Anduril (cf. Issue №3)
- **the wafer-scale punter** = Cerebras (cf. Issue №3)
- **the create-the-time-and-space CEO** = Mira Murati (cf. Issue №2)
- **the openly-sweatered Sam Altman** = Sam Altman (cf. Issues №1 and №2)
- **the Golden Boomerang** = a standing Compute! award for fastest exit-to-rehire. № 2.01: Barret Zoph (14 January 2026, same calendar day).
- **Schrödinger's S-1** = a standing Compute! award for committed-uncommitted filings. № 3.01: OpenAI (8 June 2026).
- **the Elon Premium** = a standing Compute! award, retained by SpaceX three issues running (№ 3.03).
- **the Order of the Open Letter** = a standing Compute! award. № 2.03: Jan Leike, for the 17 May 2024 resignation post.
- **the Frontier Circular** = a standing column in the voice of a palace gazette.
- **Pseuds Corner** = a standing column collecting comically pretentious frontier-lab statements (with the Private Eye lineage acknowledged).
- **Separated at Birth** = a standing column of side-by-side pairings (Spy lineage acknowledged).

## Author

Nicolle Weeks — founder, [Human+AI Substack](https://nicolleweeks.substack.com) and [AILiteracyGuide.com](https://www.ailiteracyguide.com/). Director of Communications & AI at Manulife in her day job (the magazine is personal, not corporate).

## Contact

For editorial, corrections, and accessibility inquiries, please reach the publisher via the Substack: https://nicolleweeks.substack.com.

## License

Editorial © Compute!. All rights reserved.

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