HeyJaredElizabeth Lopatto
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Apollo, a major player in GPU-backed loans, hacked. (opens the original)
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You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46.
The piano that taught my cat to play for her supper (opens the original)
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If music be the food of love, Jeeves will play on If music be the food of love, Jeeves will play on The pianist sits before her instrument. She carefully extends a front paw, pressing gingerly on a key. She presses again, and again. She is composing some soul music, because something terrible has happened to her: The vacuum cleaner has come out of the closet. Yes, my cat is a tortured artist. When Jeeves is moved by something that upsets her — say, I have gotten up when she was comfortable sit
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute (opens the original)
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Jensen Huang wants you to think ‘ah, compute as an asset class’ not ‘oh no more GPU-backed loans.’ Jensen Huang wants you to think ‘ah, compute as an asset class’ not ‘oh no more GPU-backed loans.’ Only the British fleet stands before him I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute into an asset class. “This is really the first time
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live (opens the original)
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An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships. An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships. Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What reaction was this man looking for? He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would sa
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X (opens the original)
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Elon Musk’s exploding rockets are a front for the real moneymakers. Elon Musk’s exploding rockets are a front for the real moneymakers. Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we’re calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings statement as a public company.
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