Pseuds Corner.
The fortnight's most luxuriant public statements, reproduced verbatim, sourced, dated, and left to fend for themselves. Compute! adds nothing but the attribution.
Issue №3 · 16 June 2026 · The IPO Special
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"We have not decided."
— Sam Altman, on the timing of OpenAI's IPO
CNBC · 8 June 2026
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"I am not focused on the timing."
— Sam Altman, on the same subject, twenty seconds later
CNBC · 8 June 2026
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"We are scarce in chips."
— Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI
The Information · the 47th recorded use of the phrase since 2024
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"Up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity through 2030."
— Anthropic–AWS joint statement
April 2026 · roughly the peak generation of the Hoover Dam
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"As soon as 2027."
— Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, on the timing of an IPO
Public remarks · the fourth recorded "as soon as next year" since 2022
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Issue №2 · 2 June 2026 · Musical Chairs
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"We will pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product."
— Ilya Sutskever, founding statement, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
June 2024
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"I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration."
— Mira Murati, on resigning the CTO role at OpenAI
The Information · 25 September 2024
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"We are building personal superintelligence for everyone."
— Alexandr Wang, on assuming the role of Chief AI Officer at Meta Superintelligence Labs
June 2025
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"I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative."
— Andrej Karpathy, on joining his fifth frontier lab
X · 19 May 2026
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Issue №1 · 19 May 2026 · Musk v Altman
Read Issue №1 →Column debuted in Issue №2. Issue №1's quotations ran under Heard in Court — eleven lines of sworn testimony, which is a different column, and a different oath.