It seems that the ~$3.7 billion revenue figure is from this NYT article.

Some interesting background:

Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by $2 by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.

It will be interesting to see if their predictions turn out to be true. $44 a month seems steep for a LLM, not to mention there will likely be a lot of competition both from cloud LLM providers and local LLM initiatives.

His involvement in the infamous WorldCoin provides useful insight into his character.

An oligarch and a degenerate (outside the US many oligarchs have a more or less sober understanding of who they are, although degeneracy among oligarchs is a global issue).

We are all waiting. If they don't come up with proven revenue opportunities in the next ~18 months, it's going to be difficult to justify the astronomical capex spend.

A solid option if your country doesn't support 6 GHz and you live in an apartment.

Tim Apple:

"Fucktard, do you not see the Apple logo on the device? You'll buy it, pay the astronomical price and recommend it to your friends as the next thing in computing! And if you don't, I will call my buddy Xi and we will send you to the Apple labour camp in Xinjiang! Get ready to be castrated so you can focus on our iPhone 16 rampup!"

I was curious about their methodology for counting "internet shutdowns".

I live in Ukraine and I have not experienced government run internet shutdowns since the full scale russian invasion. We do block russian resources (pretty easy to overcome via VPN), but that's understandable as they spread genocidal propaganda.

The internet does go down for some providers when there are longer brownouts, but that's related to the russians targeting the energy infrastructure. To my knowledge even frontline towns (i.e. 10km to the front) still have internet if there is capability to provide it. I believe towns ~20 km from the frontline are actually exempt from planned power shutdowns when there is too much load on the system (due to russians destroying ~60% of our electricity production capacity).

So I looked into their dataset (direct google sheets link).

And low and behold, this is what I found:

They do explicitly state that "Shutdowns were imposed by external parties in Palestine and Ukraine", but it seems strange to include such cases considering this is different from the approach used in India.

Committed fans.

They'll ship at least several hundred thousand units no matter what.

Are you being sarcastic? :)

It's not like he will be spending the cash exclusively on blow, model escorts and yachts.

Part will go into real investments. And he is well positioned to time an AI pump and dump.

I have zero knowledge about the details and processes involved in security issue disclosure and even I get the feeling something is off about Margitelli's post.

He can let his findings speak for themselves when they are responsibly disclosed (and then start the sensationalism).

The quest series do have some compelling products, but giving zuck-zuck and his goons money is a definite no go.

Oh, I think Altman is smart enough to develop contingency plans to maximize benefits for himself at the peak of the hype and leave someone else holding his bags. He is a grifter, a conman, he will say his grandmother is fat ugly whore is he think he can benefit from it while "managing" the PR impact.

That being said, the contrast between the comically bombastic statements about AI utopia (that clearly benefit him financially) and the teenage-level presentation and research (the topics he brings up is serious, it is not enough to shit out a low effort blog post) is a sight to behold.

In principle, I agree with you.

Considering Lemmy/Threadiverse's DAUs/MAUs, an argument can be made that discoverability, user engagement and on-boarding needs work.

American oligarchs really believe their shit doesn't smell.

While I was not able to confirm that this does indeed run linux, considering it's based on a Raspberry Pi, the probability is very high.

FWIW there have been rumors that the Switch will be evolutionary in design relative to the first one have been around for a while IIRC.

I wouldn't say it's that bad.

AMD during the Bulldozer era was in a worse position IMO.

The Apollo investment may not be all that bad. If anything the $5 billion would give the company some more breathing room.

Qualcomm buying out Intel would be terrible for competition.

I was a little bit disappointed by GSMarena for using a verbatim headline instead of adding terms like "manufacturer provided" and/or "alleged".