Ep. 63 — OpenAI's ads hit a billion-dollar run rate the same day Brussels puts ChatGPT under the DSA, an automated researcher out-researches 28 humans at $4 an hour, and SpaceX starts casting its own turbine blades

OpenAI's ads hit a billion-dollar run rate the same day Brussels puts ChatGPT under the DSA, an automated researcher out-researches 28 humans at $4 an hour, and SpaceX starts casting its own turbine blades 00:48 — OpenAI's ChatGPT ads hit a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days and self-serve opens across Europe — the same day the EU designates ChatGPT 'Very Large' under the Digital Services Act 02:17 — Anthropic's Automated Alignment Researcher fixed all 10 alignment failures it was pointed at, beat 28 human safety researchers on all seven failures they attempted, and ran at $4 an hour against their $150 03:47 — Musk says SpaceX will cast its own gas turbine blades and vanes in Bastrop, Texas, to pull turbines forward by up to 18 months — and a Virginia study puts a health price on running them 05:17 — Lambda raises $1 billion in short-dated debt arranged by JP Morgan to buy Nvidia GB300s and lease them to Microsoft, while in talks for a $3 billion pre-IPO round 05:42 — Instagram renames the 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and will limit the reach of AI personas that don't self-label 06:06 — Nvidia says its AI advantage is moving past the GPU to the Vera CPU and data orchestration, claiming up to 3x on the operations it accelerates 06:30 — Circleback, an eight-person profitable meeting notetaker at roughly $1 million of run-rate revenue per employee, opens a free tier with unlimited transcription 06:54 — Texas freezes state spending on Flock's AI cameras after a Texas Tribune investigation put the bill at over $30 million, funded by a $1 fee on insurance policies Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.