The process starts when someone emails friction@openai.com to report an internal bottleneck. The issues range from a technical system that isn\u2019t working, a process that\u2019s not having the intended result, or office-related frustrations, such as there not being enough IT vending machines.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s leadership team triages the emails sent to friction@, moving forward with ones they deem worthy\u2026\u00a0If the matter is considered important enough, Altman or Brockman will get involved to ensure it\u2019s resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiterally anybody can complain about big company bullsh*t directly to Sam and they can act on it,\u201d a former employee said.<\/p>\n
Sounds effective. Let\u2019s just hope Sam Altman is using AI to deal with all the emails. Read the full story here. <\/a><\/p>\n Today\u2019s news below.<\/p>\n Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coreweave’s $100 billion backlog If there is a limit to how much AI infrastructure the world needs, we haven’t hit it yet.<\/p>\n Neocloud provider CoreWeave said yesterday that its revenue more than doubled in the second quarter<\/a>, totaling $2.58 billion. Coreweave’s revenue backlog\u2014deals that it has not billed yet\u2014 rose 246% year-over-year to $104.2 billion in the second quarter. And that figure doesn\u2019t include roughly $25 billion of net new customer commitments already added in early Q3.<\/p>\n \u201cOur near-term capacity remains effectively sold out,\u201d CEO Michael Intrator said on a call with analysts on Tuesday as shares rose nearly 15% in after hours trading.<\/p>\n Fears of excessive capital expenditures and potential over investment in AI infrastructure have flared throughout the past year. And the debate intensified earlier this week as chipmaker Nvidia<\/a> (which owns close to 13% of CoreWeave) announced a plan to mobilize $500 billion in financing for AI infrastructure in partnership with\u00a0Apollo<\/a>\u00a0Global Management Inc.,\u00a0Blackstone<\/a>\u00a0Inc.,\u00a0BlackRock<\/a>\u00a0Inc. and\u00a0Brookfield<\/a> Asset Management.\u00a0<\/p>\n To judge by investors’ reaction to Coreweave’s results, the debate may be on pause once again.\u2014Amanda Gerut<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n OpenAI’s Lightcap heads for the exit<\/p>\n Brad Lightcap, one of the most recognizable faces of OpenAI\u2019s senior leadership team, is leaving the company<\/a> to \u201cstart something new,\u201d he announced on Tuesday, representing the latest in a string of executive departures at the ChatGPT maker.<\/p>\n Anthropic’s AI generated text watermark<\/p>\n Anthropic is planning to introduce a subtle watermark th<\/a>at can be used to identify AI-generated text.<\/p>\n Starting with models released on or after August 2, Anthropic says it\u2019s weaving an imperceptible, machine-readable signal directly into Claude-generated text. People won\u2019t be able to see it, and the company says it won\u2019t affect quality or readability.<\/p>\n While other AI companies have attempted this kind of watermarking before, it\u2019s been mostly aimed at images. Text has traditionally been more difficult to identify in this way because it gets copied, paraphrased, translated, chopped up and folded into someone else\u2019s writing all the time. And Anthropic acknowledged that its new text watermark is not perfect: The company says the mark only shows that Claude had a hand in something, not that a Claude model generated the entire thing.\u2014Bea Nolan<\/p>\n More tech<\/p>\n \u2014Spotify asks artists to identify as human or AI<\/a>. We are the music makers.<\/p>\n \u2014Ex Czar wants a $1 billion<\/a>. David Sacks’ Craft Ventures is raising a new fund.<\/p>\n \u2014Gemini hits 1 billion users<\/a>. Google’s latest product to join the billion-user club.<\/p>\n \u2014SpaceX and Cursor’s new app<\/a>. Meet Grok Bot.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2285600285-e1786507122388.jpg\"\/)
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