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A few days after the royal drama at OpenAI, let's try to look past the ruins of this company whose brains, Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever , have said it could herald the downfall of the world. 

That went quickly. The Verge just reported "The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday with no notice, is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want significant governance changes

It is amazing to see all that is happening in technology in one week, especially within AI and crypto.

Imagine you have an extremely successful startup in 2023, like Sam Altman of OpenAI, and develop products like ChatGPT that many people around the world are excited about.

Because in addition to Tesla (with the model series S 3 X Y, read those letters as a word), Space X and X (formerly Twitter), among others, Musk still has time left to launch Grok this weekend, the first product of his new AI company xAI.

Actually, I hate inspirational quotes, but I caught myself last week looking for tips and examples of people who kept faith in a better future during hard times. For example, I enjoyed reading back pieces from speeches by Winston Churchill.

It is not possible to write cheerfully about new innovations when the world is on fire. Especially not when the world’s most widespread innovation of this century, social media, is being used by terrorists.

This week’s most notable news was not the lawsuit against Sam Bankman-Fried, because that curly clearly stole as much money as he could from his customers seems clear, but the Indonesian government’s ban of Tiktok’s webshop.

The best tech investments of the last five years were not Apple or Bitcoin, but Tesla and Ethereum.

In most countries, Formula One is primarily a spectacular sporting event, but in Singapore, the Grand Prix transforms into something much bigger than a race weekend; the city becomes a seven-day spectacle of networking events and business presentations.  

Not even Lionel Messi could help Apple this week. The week began happily when it was announced that the Argentine ball wizard's arrival in the MLS has resulted in one hundred and ten thousand new subscribers to Apple TV+, but that news was quickly forgotten when the Chinese government banned officials from using iPhones.

I had a very different opening to my newsletter in mind, but the fact that the tech elite is stuck in the desert mud with their private jets at Burning Man is too much news for me to ignore.

Nvidia dominated the news in the technology world last week in a way reminiscent of Netscape's 1995 IPO. That legendary IPO heralded the start of the Internet era, just as the launch of the iPhone in 2007 marked the breakthrough of the smartphone.

This week there was no news that stood out everywhere, so I made a top 10 of things that caught my eye. The great little magician from Argentina is, of course, number one.

When the five of the world's six largest companies publish their quarterly results, it is a major economic indicator and could be news. Unfortunately, instead of solid analysis, even the Financial Times and Washington Post preferred to publish uninspired opinion pieces about how boring the CEOs of Google, Microsoft and Apple are and how silly it is that Apple CEO Tim Cook always makes the v-sign in photos. Who cares, as long as he is not in every photo with his right arm extended?

The technology industry is increasingly suffering from excessive attention to tech founders. Elon Musk continues to dominate the spotlight, whether he is reviving Twitter or tearing it down, depending on whom you ask. Still, the most significant news of the past week was the unveiling of Worldcoin. This project drew attention because of its shiny "orb," which scans the iris of new users, and because of the involvement of co-founder Sam Altman, also the CEO of OpenAI