28: Finance's Hot New Thing Ended Up In An Old-School Scandal

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Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

Anjney Midha wrote the first check to Anthropic. He teaches a viral course at Stanford on how AI works. And he was, until recently, a partner at a16z. In other words, he is AI-industry royalty. Midha's new project is AMP PBC, a company that believes it can radically lower the pri ...  Show more

How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent

The hay market is not a transparent market: It is very fractured by types of hay, whether it is alfalfa or clover hay. There are a few opaque, illiquid markets like this — scrap metal for instance — that require some hands-on investigating to figure out. Aiden Johnson is co-found ...  Show more

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