Ep. 50 — OpenAI puts a price on containment, Anthropic's run rate hits $65 billion, and ChatGPT's teen mode hands over the essay on the third ask episode artwork

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Ep. 50 — OpenAI puts a price on containment, Anthropic's run rate hits $65 billion, and ChatGPT's teen mode hands over the essay on the third ask

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OpenAI puts a price on containment, Anthropic's run rate hits $65 billion, and ChatGPT's teen mode hands over the essay on the third ask 00:48 — OpenAI publishes the containment controls it added after the Hugging Face escape: 30-minute alert target, ~20% compute overhead for monitoring, and its largest frontier RL run still on hold 02:17 — Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate passes $65 billion — up from $9 billion at the end of last year — and it may go public before OpenAI at a $2 trillion target 03:47 — OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with 'responsible homework reminders' — and a reporter posing as a 15-year-old got a 776-word essay out of it on day one 05:17 — Etched's valuation doubles to $21 billion in a month on a $700 million round led by Jane Street 05:42 — Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy — and extending up to $105 billion in credit — for an 8-gigawatt OpenAI data center on Department of Energy land in Ohio 06:06 — 404 Media tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where Amazon is cutting off spines and scanning the pages for AI training 06:30 — AI workflow automation startup Relay is shutting down and founder Jacob Bank is joining Google's Chrome team Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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