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Epstein Files Reveal Deep Relationship With Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher

Epstein Files Reveal Deep Relationship With Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher

There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist. On June 25, 2019, 11 days before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors, he asked Bucher—who was then acting as a publicist for Epstein—for nude photographs during a flirty exchange on Skype,...

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OpenAI is a hubris-and-ego-driven cash incinerator, whose economics would look terrible even to a first-year business school student.

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Regarding the margins, it's also clearly their strategy to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic and apply margin compression towards their businesses in a way that they can't afford.

Google has been quite aggressive with this strategy and it's both hurt the field (limiting the ability of those companies to scale their business relevant to the value created), as well as forced them to optimize and outcompete on efficiency and product outcomes.

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Cost per view model to start with is an odd choice. Safe for them. I understand the reasoning. But not so reassuring for advertisers who have been so accustomed to paying for clicks. Curious where this goes. There's a huge potential of knowing intent and context.