Contender vs The Public · Season 25/26
Results
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- Each card's bar splits its pitchforks by count:
- What you'll lose
- Condescension
- Tone-deafness
- Doom
- Hypocrisy
July 20262 matches
- Fri 31 Jul 2026Post on X (@sama)FTAltman9The PublicSam Altman Slammed Over ChatGPT School Run Proposal: 'Just Talk to Your Children'IBTimes UK
- Jul 2026Interview with The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes (exact day not confirmed)FTMusk11The PublicOne year later, Tesla and Musk still don't have a good definition of 'abundance'TechCrunch
June 20263 matches
- Tue 16 Jun 2026Associated Press interviewFTHuang7The PublicNvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'PC Gamer
- Tue 2 Jun 2026Microsoft Build 2026 keynoteFTNadella6The PublicMicrosoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutinyTom's Hardware
- Mon 1 Jun 2026GTC Taipei 2026 keynote (Computex week), Taipei Music CenterFTHuang9The Public'People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense': Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises economic doomerism on GTC stagePC Gamer
May 20261 match
April 20263 matches
- Thu 30 Apr 2026Testimony in Musk v. Altman (his lawsuit against OpenAI), US District Court, OaklandFTMusk10The PublicJudge cuts off Musk's AI doomsday talk as his testimony ends in OpenAI caseThe Guardian
- Thu 30 Apr 2026Meta company town hall (heard by Reuters)LeakedFTZuckerberg13The PublicMeta CEO Zuckerberg blames layoffs on capital spending, won't rule out more job cutsReuters (via Yahoo Finance)
- Reported 20 Apr 2026Panel at Stanford Graduate School of BusinessFTHuang8The PublicNvidia CEO says that AI agents will make workers busier than ever—they’ll ‘harass’ and ‘micromanage’ you, instead of take your jobFortune
March 20265 matches
- Reported 19 Mar 2026All-In Podcast, recorded at Nvidia GTC 2026 (San Jose)FTHuang10The PublicJensen Huang says he would be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokensBusiness Insider
- Tue 17 Mar 2026Post on X (@sama)FTAltman11The PublicSam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is OverFuturism
- Tue 17 Mar 2026Press Q&A with Tom's Hardware at Nvidia GTC 2026FTHuang14The PublicJensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlashTom's Hardware
- Wed 11 Mar 2026BlackRock U.S. Infrastructure Summit, Washington, D.C. (fireside chat with OpenAI board member Adebayo Ogunlesi)FTAltman11The PublicSam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the BillsGizmodo
- Wed 4 Mar 2026Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom ConferenceFTHuang10The PublicNvidia CEO Huang declares 'I love constraints' amid ongoing component shortage — claims lack of options forces AI clients to only choose the very bestTom's Hardware
February 20263 matches
- Fri 20 Feb 2026Interview with The Indian Express (Express Adda) at the India AI Impact Summit, New DelhiFTAltman9The PublicSam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human CivilizationGizmodo
- Reported 13 Feb 2026Financial Times interview (reported in February 2026); walked back on The Verge's Decoder podcast on 2026-06-08FTSuleyman13The PublicMicrosoft's AI Chief Puts 18 Months on White-Collar WorkUnite.AI
- Wed 4 Feb 2026Post on X (@sama) answering Anthropic's Super Bowl adsFTAltman10The PublicOpenAI CEO mocked for 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl adMediaweek
January 20266 matches
- Mon 26 Jan 2026Essay on his personal website, "The Adolescence of Technology"FTAmodei14The PublicAnthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulationThe Register
- Tue 20 Jan 2026X (post)FTMusk11The PublicSam Altman Hits Back at Elon Musk Over ChatGPT Safety ClaimsDecrypt
- Tue 20 Jan 2026World Economic Forum, Davos: conversation with BlackRock CEO Larry FinkFTNadella7The PublicMicrosoft CEO says AI needs to have a wider impact or else it risks quickly losing ‘social permission’ — also says that the technology should benefit more people to avoid a bubbleTom's Hardware
- Wed 14 Jan 2026X (post)FTMusk10The PublicSexualized Grok Antics Continue To Get Musk In TroubleCleanTechnica
- Reported 11 Jan 2026No Priors podcastFTHuang6The PublicJensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"TechSpot
- Reported 9 Jan 2026Moonshots with Peter Diamandis (podcast)FTMusk12The PublicWorld's Richest Man Says Don't Bother Saving for RetirementGizmodo
December 20253 matches
- Mon 29 Dec 2025Nadella's personal blog, sn scratchpad (shared on LinkedIn): 'Looking Ahead to 2026'FTNadella13The Public“Microslop” memes take over social media after Microsoft CEO pushes back on “the arguments of slop”The Daily Dot
- Reported 9 Dec 2025The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (his late-night debut)FTAltman7The PublicSam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPTFuturism
- Thu 4 Dec 2025X (reply to a user)FTMusk10The PublicElon Musk says Tesla owners will soon be able to text while driving, despite it being illegal in nearly all 50 statesFortune
November 20257 matches
- Thu 20 Nov 2025X (post)FTMusk5The PublicElon Musk blames 'adversarial prompting' after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praiseEngadget
- Wed 19 Nov 2025U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, Kennedy Center, Washington DC (panel with Jensen Huang)FTMusk11The PublicElon Musk on the future of jobs and AI, 'My prediction is that work will be optional'TechRadar
- Wed 19 Nov 2025X (post)FTSuleyman11The PublicMicrosoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI80.lv
- Reported 18 Nov 2025BBC interview with Faisal Islam at Google's California headquartersFTPichai10The PublicDon't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar PichaiBBC News
- Thu 6 Nov 2025Tesla annual shareholder meeting, AustinFTMusk11The PublicElon Musk says let criminals out of prison and give them a robot stalker insteadElectrek
- Reported 2 Nov 2025BG2 podcast with Brad Gerstner and Satya NadellaFTAltman7The PublicSam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenueTechCrunch
- Reported 2 Nov 2025BG2 Pod (Brad Gerstner), 'All things AI' Halloween special with Sam AltmanFTNadella4The PublicMicrosoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in'Tom's Hardware
October 20255 matches
- Reported 29 Oct 2025X (post), days after Grokipedia launchedFTMusk11The PublicGrokipedia Will Exceed Wikipedia by Several Orders of Magnitude in Breadth, Depth and Accuracy: Elon MuskNewsGram (IANS)
- Wed 22 Oct 2025Tesla Q3 2025 earnings callFTMusk13The PublicElon Musk defends $1 trillion pay package: 'I just don't feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted'Fortune (via Yahoo Finance)
- Wed 15 Oct 2025Post on X (@sama)FTAltman6The PublicSam Altman says OpenAI isn't the 'moral police of the world' after people slam its decision to offer erotica to adult usersFortune
- Reported 12 Oct 2025Live interview with Rowan Cheung (The Rundown) at OpenAI DevDay 2025FTAltman13The PublicSam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start WithFuturism
- Reported 4 Oct 2025Blog post on Sora, days after the Sora 2 launchFTAltman8The PublicYou Can't Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI's Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking OutGizmodo