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Altman's mentor, described as paying $250,000 over two years to under-22s on condition they drop out.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Enhanced Group lost nearly $62 million in Q2 against $17.7 million of revenue, most of it sponsorship money tied to the event. The telehealth business it was built on is barely visible.
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A $300 million Series C doubles Etched's valuation in seven months on $1 billion of orders and hardware almost nobody outside the cap table has run. Buyers now have a number to price against.
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The British inference startup is in talks at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation three months after a $1bn round, Bloomberg reports. The signal is the buyer, not the multiple.
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Etched has first-pass silicon, 400 staff and more than $1bn in booked orders. What it does not have in public is a peak FLOPS figure, a power draw, or a third-party benchmark.
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A two-hour Minneapolis radar outage disrupted 1,100 flights. The Verge argues it is the bill for a handoff from Musk's DOGE to Thiel's Palantir, with none of the new money going to staffing.
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A CNBC/Generation Lab survey of 18-34-year-olds found every named AI leader distrusted by a majority, in a band from about 65% to about 81%. Consumer AI ships into a verdict already reached.
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A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
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The OpenAI chief made a case for shortening the runway to an audience whose entry pipeline is already being absorbed by AI. Rebuilding that pipeline lands on hiring managers.
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