557: Betting it all on Green

Why we think Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, Sam's new "mind boggling" idea, and more.

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• Christian Keil on X — So GitLab posts their internal Zoom call recordings on YouTube, and some have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views... Because people use them to pretend like they're working.
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• Charlie Bilello on X — With a $1.83 trillion market cap, Nvidia just passed Amazon to become the 4th largest US company.
• Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be 'mind boggling' — “If it does work out, the amount of natural resources that will be required is just mind-boggling,” she told VentureBeat. “Even if the energy is renewable (which it isn’t guaranteed to be), the quantity of water and rare earth minerals required is astronomical.”
• garry on X — Google's Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in c# because it's unethical.
• Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU — The European Commission has decided against designating iMessage as a core platform service. Microsoft’s Edge browser, Bing search engine, and advertising business also avoided the additional scrutiny.