Everything is riding on AI now, from the markets to geopolitics.
ECONOMY
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OpenAI plans 125x energy capacity increase by 2033
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OpenAI have 9x'd their capacity this year, and have a goal to 125x further by 2033, thus exceeding current energy capacity of the whole of India – as per @alexeheath reporting of @sama
's internal slack note. One thing to note is that 125x energy capacity increase understates the -

AI Progress, Evals, and Reinforcement Learning in Job Market
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quite a privilege to be a guest on Odd Lots! talked w joe & tracy about pace of progress in AI, broken evals, the crazy job market, and the difference between supervised and reinforcement learning
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ChatGPT Plus as potential gateway to advertising implementation
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Jakob has a valid point. ChatGPT Puls could be the first step into implementing ads in ChatGPT.
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AI Agents Transform Customer Purchasing Decisions and Marketing Strategy
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AI Travel Hacks And Prompts That Will Save You Time, Money And Stress Customer behaviour is shifting—AI agents are making purchasing decisions. Brands must now persuade algorithms, not just people. It’s time to adapt marketing for the behind-the-scenes buyers. Read more
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Rising Revenue Enables Investment in Advanced Technology
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With revenue like this, we can finally afford nice things
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Cybersecurity Threats 2026: AI Agents, Deepfakes, Quantum Risks
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The 7 Biggest Cyber Security Trends Of 2026 That Everyone Must Be Ready For #Cybercrime will become the world's third-largest economy in 2026, worth $20 trillion, driven by #AI agents launching autonomous #attacks, #deepfake technology fooling employees and #quantumcomputers
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AI Tasks Show Economic Impact But Don’t Replace Human Jobs
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These tasks have real-world relevance & were built for economic impact: they averaged 7 hours of expert work to do & showed expert "try, then fix" is a good workflow. But note tasks are not jobs, and this does not mean AI can just sub in for humans. http://
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4e9-4a33-bd86-86dd4bcf12ce/GDPval.pdf
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China restricts Nvidia chip purchases, advances semiconductor independence
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Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips. This move received only modest attention in the media, but has implications beyond what’s widely appreciated. Specifically, it signals that China has progressed sufficiently in semiconductors to break away