Didnât catch this yesterday, but what a great three song set from White with Eminem joining for the second, rapping âTill I Collapse over Hello Operator.
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đ¤ OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year â though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.
The charts on this article are wild. I believe theyâve raised over $60 billion so far, so over the next five years they will 4x thatâjust to continue to lose money. And thatâs assuming they double their paying user base. Obviously the intent for these companies is to find ways to reduce the cost of operations and likely slow down R&D at a certain point, or at least point the research in other areas as Google did before them. But boy, does it seem like an uphill battle to even make a penny. Not to beat a dead horse, but they also clearly participate in predatory pricing practices.
đ¤ San Franciscoâs youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
When I pressed Foody on his utopian vision, and why he thinks tech companies wonât hoard the spoils of the AI boom, he waved his hand and described a future in which everyone has $10 million in purchasing power, lives in a nice apartment, and works only if they want to.
Oh yeah, because every 22-year-old has vast experience of what itâs like at the workplace for all types of jobs across the country. Problem solved, everyone, you can now work when you want and buy anything you want! Itâs getting ridiculous.
đ¸ Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnistâs Child Doesnât Care About Sports Gambling
The people who own and populate the sports discourse have every professional incentive not to âfreak out about sports betting,â because the vast majority of them are for all practical purposes employees of sports betting concerns. That, not to put too fine a point on it, is the precise reason why a question like âIs gambling really threatening the integrity of sports?â is still being treated as though it is up for discussion at a time when there are simultaneous active federal bet-fixing investigations against active players in three different highly visible professional sports
I didnât read the original NYer column, but anyone who makes the points laid out by Albert here is crazy. There is no doubt that the integrity of sports is in trouble. And no, most fans of sports donât think they are already fixed.
đ˝ Enema Of The Garden State by Madi Diaz
I featured this on yesterdayâs media guide on Foofaraw, but wanted to give it another shout-out here. Itâs fantastic and every penny goes to Defending our Neighbors.
đď¸ My new business + tech podcast
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