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Sam | AI, Money & Power
@SamTalksAI4h
My AI knows me better than most of my coworkers. Grok Bot fact-checks me before I make a call, tells me when my idea is weak, and remembers every correction I give it. But only because I told it to. One prompt telling it to stay neutral and criticize me. Without it, would it have just agreed with my mistakes? How many people are getting yes-men instead of advisors?
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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SpaceX just borrowed $40 billion to buy AI chips. Meanwhile, a top Wall Street economist says AI has made zero extra money for most companies outside Big Tech. Billions going in. Almost nothing coming out, yet. Smartest bet of the decade, or the next bubble?
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*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone7h
$SPCX - SPACEX SIGNS $40 BILLION GPU FINANCING DEAL WITH APOLLO SpaceX has entered into a binding commitment for a master finance lease with Apollo Global Management ($APO ), according to an SEC filing. Apollo will purchase GPU pods and related equipment and lease them to SpaceX, with aggregate scheduled principal payments expected to total $40 billion. The agreement is expected to close before year-end 2026. The key takeaway: SpaceX is securing large-scale GPU infrastructure through lease financing, highlighting the enormous capital requirements of AI expansion.
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
@SamTalksAI23h
Europe is boiling. And it's not just France. Italy. Belgium. Germany. Spain. Portugal. Greece. Albania. Serbia. All protesting at the same time. In Turin, students chanted: "Let's do it like France." The common thread? EU food prices are up 34% in 5 years. Governments say they have no money left. Now imagine what happens when AI starts cutting white-collar jobs. Is America next?
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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Everyone wants the AI. Nobody wants the data center. New CNBC poll: 63% of US voters don't want an AI data center within 10 miles of home. Only 13% do. Why? These things eat massive amounts of power and water, and people fear their electricity bills will pay for it. Even among MAGA voters, 55% want AI to keep moving... but just 29% want the data center nearby. Now Trump says developers should pay host towns a "dividend." It's not left vs right anymore. It's: whose backyard? Would you take one next door for $1,000 a year?
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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Not "directly", just through the AI that read it.
Dexerto
@DexertoOct 25
Google has updated its privacy policy to allow Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive data to be used for targeted ads The change applies to users who opt to share their data with Google's personalized AI features, including Search
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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Google quietly deleted one sentence from its privacy policy: "We don't show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos." Now, if you connect Gmail and Photos to its AI, summaries of that data can shape the ads you see in AI search. Google says ads won't be based "directly" on your inbox. Not directly. Just through the AI that read it. The AI assistant is free because you're the product. Did you switch it on?
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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Nobody is talking about this: An abandoned copy of Popcorn Time (yes, the old pirate movie app) was still running a hidden updater on 2.5-3 million Windows PCs. It installed anything it was sent. With full admin rights. No questions asked (vulnerability CVE-2026-30612). Security researchers had to take over its dead web addresses and push 2 million+ updates just to switch it off. Your 2014 downloads folder is now a cybersecurity problem 馃槀 What's the oldest app still on your laptop?
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Sam | AI, Money & Power
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Brazil's final presidential debate last night: Lula kept telling voters to "Google it." Fl谩vio Bolsonaro fired back: "Who's running the country, you or Google?" Funny line. Wrong decade. By 2030 the real question will be: "Who's running the country, you or the AI agent?" Would you vote for a president who openly let AI make the calls?
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