There's an alternative to the AI-driven software apocalypse

OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo

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Keep your friends closer and your AI rivals closer.

Software companies aren't feeling chummy with AI companies these days. After a decade of software eating the world, AI is building up an appetite of its own.

My colleague Alistair Barr, author of the fantastic Tech Memo newsletter...