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Absolutely nothing. They don't, they didn't, it's a poorly stitched together attack job.

The 1.4 T amounts to a broad nearly decade long capex plan, not liabilities.

The loans and backstops etc were a request, not for OpenAI, but on behalf of manufacturers of grid equipment, manufacturers that OpenAI wouldike the government to consider as eligible for money already carved out by the AMIC national investment in chips and AI, and also probably more money as well-- it's a separate group of tangential industries that weren't initially considered, so why not ask? Sure it would help keep the wheels moving in OpenAI and the broad AI and US semiconductor industry, but it's far away from and ask by Altman for a bailout of his company.





Narrator: it was in fact a bailout they were asking for.

What is it that happened roughly 2 months ago? It seems like a disproportionate number of all the low-effort comments on the anti-ai side of things are coming from accounts that age.

I turned 11, and my mom let me get a hacker news account!



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