Compute! https://readcompute.com A fortnightly satirical magazine about the AI industry. Every quote sourced. Footnotes throughout. Disclaimers nowhere. en Issue №3 — S-1, S-1, S-1. The IPO Special https://readcompute.com/issue-3 https://readcompute.com/issue-3 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Three frontier laboratories filed S-1s with the SEC in forty days. Combined private-market valuation, at print: $2.84 trillion. The bankers, in all three cases: mostly the same five firms. Yahoo!'s IPO, in 1996, was also led by Morgan Stanley. Issue №2 — Musical Chairs: Karpathy's fifth lab https://readcompute.com/issue-2 https://readcompute.com/issue-2 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The boomerang autodidact joins Anthropic — his fifth lab in eleven years. Schulman lands at his third lab. Meta reportedly offers $1.5bn. The corkboard is running out of room. Issue №1 — "Stories, not facts." (OpenAI wins.) https://readcompute.com/issue-1 https://readcompute.com/issue-1 Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Three weeks. Nine witnesses. $134 billion on the table. A jury that deliberated under two hours. Inside Musk v Altman.