There are bold-faced tech names all around the Epstein recordsdata. Elon Musk, Invoice Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Web page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, on and on and on. These males (and they’re pretty much all men) had wildly various levels of interplay with Epstein, and the main points matter an awesome deal. However so does the totality of it: you spend lengthy sufficient in these recordsdata, and also you begin to get a way of the best way the world works for a selected sort of extraordinarily wealthy and very highly effective businessman. And it begins to really feel fairly dangerous.
On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay begin the present by speaking in regards to the newest tranche of emails from the Epstein recordsdata, each what we’ve realized and the deeply unusual manner wherein they’re being disseminated. There are interesting business stories in right here; there are surprising plots to alter the world. We’re nonetheless undecided speak about any of it, besides to maintain displaying what we discover.
After that, it’s time for the opposite factor capturing tech minds this week: Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads, which isn’t explicitly a shot at OpenAI’s plan to introduce advertisements to ChatGPT however can be very clearly precisely that. The advertisements started a debate about each how we use AI and the way we pay for it and likewise made it a bit of clearer how precarious OpenAI’s place is true now. They’re additionally simply excellent advertisements.
If you wish to know extra about every thing we focus on on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, first on the Epstein recordsdata:
And within the lightning spherical:
