Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
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Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day

B1IntermediateJuly 31, 20261 hr 4 min

Reed Albergotti from Semafor is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness Hedge Fund 2) Leopold's connections to effective altriusm and how they played into the picture 3) Does EA lead to unacceptable risk taking? 4) What Leopold actually traded 5) What's left of Situational Awareness 6) OpenAI cuts prices as much as 80% 7) Does an AI price war drive everything to zero? 8) Nvidia invests $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's SSI 8) Microsoft crushes earnings and has the biggest market cap gain ever 9) Amazon crushes earnings too 10) Google rebounds 11) Apple's memory fears and long term risks ...

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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Hedge Fund blows up and sells off its stock portfolio. OpenAI has cut prices on its latest models by as much as 80%. And big tech earnings leaves Satya Nadella, a very happy man. That's coming up with Reid Albergati from Semaphore, right after this.

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Perustin pyöräilyvaatteita valmistavan Ornotin vuonna 2013. Mielestäni parasta Shopify'ssa on se, että voimme harjoittaa liiketoimintaa ilman teknistä osaamista. We can manage the business and frontend-info and buy it on the network. If Shopify is a power-in-argu, it's my opinion it's a power-in-argu.

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That's what we're doing and our business is going to be Shopify. Start with the free experience at Shopify.com. but it's still kicking of Leopold Ashenbrenner's situational awareness hedge fund. Too much fund, too little hedge seems like to be the problem there.

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