[concinds]

Am I crazy, or was this press release fully rewritten in the past 10 minutes? The current version is around half the length of the old one, which did not frame it as a "simplification" "grounded in flexibility" but as a deeper partnership. It also had word salad about AGI, and said Azure retained exclusivity for API products but not other products, which the new statement seems to contradict.

What was I looking at?

[einsteinx2]

I noticed the exact same thing. I read the original, went back to read it again and it’s completely changed.

[3form]

I think a stickied comment about this would be due. No idea if it's possible to call in @dang via at-name?

[einsteinx2]

Looks like they changed the post link to a Bloomberg article instead but kept the comments thread. So I guess he’s already aware.

[kergonath]

> No idea if it's possible to call in @dang via at-name?

No. Email [e-mail]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[alansaber]

The in-house or the marketing team swooped in last minute it appears

[MichaelZuo]

It’s extraordinary how much standards have slipped. Completely rewriting a major press release that’s already been sent out, while pretending it’s ostensibly the same document would have been a major corporate scandal just 15 years ago.

[acdanger]

If anyone has the original release still up and can post it somewhere that would be grand.

[Petersipoi]

It is rewritten on every refresh depending on the readers mood, personality, etc.. so they're most receptive to it.

Obviously not, but we might not be far off from that being a reality.

[jimbokun]

I don’t know. I couldn’t get past the first paragraph because it seemed like complete slop.

[antonkochubey]

They forgot the "hey ChatGPT, rewrite this to have better impact on the company stock" before submitting it