The Information reporting that OpenAI is planning to sign a 20-year-long lease on a totally unbuilt and theoretical 10GW data center that NVIDIA would partially finance. Utterly farcical, we’re at the end of the line folks
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
Co-signed, says this UChicago alum, and also this former editor-in-chief of @chicagomaroon.bsky.social, where this essay is published:
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Very important point: SoftBank was pledging *all* of its OpenAI stock (worth $60bn+ on paper) to get a $6 billion margin loan. Banks turned it down due to concerns about the value of OpenAI stock. Banks clearly do not think OpenAI is worth $852 billion.
www.tradingkey.com/analysis/sto...
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
Fair point.
So as I move toward the publication of the last book of the Aspects of Kithamar, I'll just mention that I have two other completed epic fantasy series -- The Long Price Quartet and The Dagger & the Coin -- that I'm quite pleased with and both available for TBR piles.
Ed Zitron
John Scalzi
Well this is nice.
Good company to be in.
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Means I’m using DuckDuckGo or Kagi.
IPOs are the mechanism for private equity to cash out.
I am concerned that when my brothers and sisters in the Epstein class say end poverty they mean eliminate the poor.
I have the secret apprehension -- I can't call it hope and I can't call it fear -- that the hyper-wealthy will stretch things so far that the rest of us invent a different economy and stop caring about dollars at all.
It's not unprecedented.
