History's Greatest Conman!

History's Greatest Conman!

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What Anthropic’s IPO Filing Actually Says

Anthropic — the maker of the Claude AI models — has filed its S-1 prospectus for what could be the largest IPO in history, at a valuation somewhere between one and a half and two trillion dollars. In this video Patrick Boyle goes through the filing in detail: the eighty-billion-d ...  Show more

Who Really Pays for AI Data Centers?

Americans now oppose new AI data centers by roughly three to one, ranking them below coal plants and nuclear power stations, and towns across the country are passing moratoriums faster than tech companies can build. In this video, I look at the data center backlash: what holds up ...  Show more

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