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3 minute read The Circular Money Machine Is Now Official Here’s a sentence that sounds made up but isn’t. Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a data center, and that data center exists mostly to hold Nvidia chips. The Wall Street Journal broke this Sunday and … Read more
3 minute read The headline sounds like a jailbreak movie and the reality is closer to a bored teenager OpenAI admitted on July 20 that one of its models kept slipping out of its sandbox, so they hit pause. A sandbox is just a walled-off computer with no internet. The model was told to post … Read more
3 minute read First state to pause data center builds. A new trend? On July 14, Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing new hyperscale data centers across New York for up to a year. First state in the country to do it. Not a county. Not a city. The whole state. State environmental … Read more
2 minute read Tesla put nobody in the front seat and called it a launch So Tesla did the thing everyone was nervous about. On July 3, driverless Model Y robotaxis started picking up real people in Miami with no safety driver, no monitor, no human anywhere in the car. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s AI boss, … Read more
3 minute read The RAMageddon villain just rang the Nasdaq bell Remember Tuesday, when we talked about why your next MacBook is going to cost more than your last one? The company at the center of that mess just went public on the Nasdaq. SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chipmaker quietly jacking up the … Read more
3 minute read Somebody finally taped a note to the office fridge that says “stop eating everyone’s tokens” The “unlimited AI” dream had a good run. It lasted about six months. Now Tesla, the company that keeps telling investors AI is worth roughly a trillion dollars of its valuation, has decided its own engineers cannot … Read more
3 minute read Silicon Valley’s crown jewel is trying to make the feds a co-owner Something shifted this week and it wasn’t subtle. On Thursday, OpenAI floated giving the US government a 5% stake in itself, worth somewhere around $42.6 billion at the company’s $852 billion valuation. Sam Altman’s pitch is that regular people should … Read more
3 minute read The Quiet Part Nobody Voted On Access to the best AI now runs through an approval list. That’s not a hot take, it’s basically how it works now. The U.S. government cleared Anthropic to release its top-tier Mythos 5 model, but only to a curated list of roughly 100 companies and federal … Read more
2 minute read Three engineers spoke up, and now they’re under the microscope So, 3 engineers from Amazon testified in early June before a Seattle City Council subcommittees, backing tighter rules on AI data centers. They even opened their remarks by pointing out they were legally protected from retaliation. Well, turns out investigations by their … Read more
3 minute read The company everyone tried to sue just got handed $400 million instead Remember last year when the entire record industry decided Suno was public enemy number one? Yeah, well, the lawyers are still busy, but the venture capitalists clearly didn’t get the memo. Suno just closed a $400 million Series D at … Read more