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Cryptocurrency
… Senate Ag advances crypto bill along party lines Politico Stevie Bonifield Jan 29 Don’t expect any Kalshi or Polymarket ads during the Super Bowl. The NFL has added prediction markets to its list of “prohibited categories” for commercials in Super Bowl LX. …
Who is the Palantir chore coat for?
… You may know him as “The Menswear Guy” on social media. “It’s just a very fashionable garment at the moment for that kind of class.” Palantir has something of a cult following already, in part because it has made some investors very rich. …
Motorsports
… Hawkins Feb 22, 2024 King of the Hammers is a little bit Mad Max, a little bit Blade Runner. Emme Hall’s story this week captured the sweaty, gravel-strewn insanity of the annual off-road event, but it really needs to be seen to be believed. …
YouTube
… How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed The New York Times YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads Jay Peters Feb 24 Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos The former Complexly owner lets loose on YouTube, AI, an… …
Books
… Two of my favorite color e-book readers are the cheapest they’ve been in months Sheena Vasani Mar 23 The messiah rises in Dune: Part Three’s new trailer Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 17 Elizabeth Lopatto Mar 11 A gambler on illegal vs legal gambling. …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… After Oracle’s strong earnings were announced in March, the five-year CDS got cheaper — then, later that month, hit an all-time high, suggesting investors were nervous again. “Oracle’s CDS has become the credit market’s proxy for AI risk,” John Lloyd, global head of multisector credit and a portfol… …
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
… And the price is being driven down radically. If you look at the price of LLM queries, it’s gone down 50 times in the last three years. So it’s pretty exciting from that standpoint of having so many big companies racing to provide the cheapest models. …
Uber employees have a Dara AI
… And early on when we’re trying to explore something, we will use some of the more advanced models, but then once you get up to larger volumes, we will try to switch out either cheaper models or open source models to control the costs and the token costs on the backend. …