2025-11-26 09:26:29
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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 — 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 they’ve raised over $60 billion so far, so over the next five years they will 4x that—just to continue to lose money. And that’s 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.
2025-11-20 00:14:54
When I pressed Foody on his utopian vision, and why he thinks tech companies won’t 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 it’s 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! It’s getting ridiculous.
2025-11-20 00:08:51
The people who own and populate the sports discourse have every professional incentive not to “freak out about sports betting,” 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 “Is gambling really threatening the integrity of sports?” 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 didn’t 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 don’t think they are already fixed.
2025-11-20 00:06:42
I featured this on yesterday’s media guide on Foofaraw, but wanted to give it another shout-out here. It’s fantastic and every penny goes to Defending our Neighbors.
2025-11-20 00:05:09
Don’t forget to like, subscribe, share, burn it all down, etc.
I personally can’t wait for episode two! 😝
2025-11-20 00:04:24
United Talent Agency has signed the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, the governing body for “the king of cheeses” Parmigiano Reggiano, to get the supermarket staple placement in films, TV shows and streaming projects around the globe.
Big cheese has entered the building… Starring in next summer’s action-packed blockbuster: Parmesan cheese… Next down the red carpet, Parmigiano Reggiano! “What are you wearing today..?”
Apologies to all of humanity…