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OpenAI is here this week to show us the money, as in a $100 billion investment from Nvidia and operationalization of a $400 billion buildout for Stargate. They are not kidding around when it comes to scale. They’re going to need it, as they are announcing soon a slate of products that takes inference costs to the next level. After a full review and two reaction posts, I’ve now completed my primary coverage of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The book is now a NYT bestseller, #7 in combined print and e-books nonfiction and #8 in hardcover fiction. I will of course cover any important developments from here but won’t be analyzing reviews and reactions by default. We also had a conference of economic papers on AI, which were interesting throughout about particular aspects of AI economics, even though they predictably did not take future AI [...] ---Outline:(01:15) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(04:09) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility(07:35) Huh, Upgrades(08:43) On Your Marks(14:13) Choose Your Fighter(16:52) Get My Agent On The Line(17:27) Antisocial Media(17:55) Copyright Confrontation(18:57) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(19:49) Fun With Media Generation(20:39) Unprompted Attention(22:16) They Took Our Jobs(30:42) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer(33:38) The Art of the Jailbreak(35:05) Get Involved(35:19) In Other AI News(36:10) Glass Houses(39:46) Show Me the Money(41:30) Quiet Speculations(50:24) Call For Action At The UN(55:02) The Quest for Sane Regulations(01:01:25) Chip City(01:05:14) The Week in Audio(01:05:23) Rhetorical Innovation(01:10:12) Google Strengthens Its Safety Framework(01:11:03) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:23:02) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone(01:25:32) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone --- First published: September 25th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P5ZuoCwGCZyecBxeN/ai-135-openai-shows-us-the-money --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.