Some people aren't mincing their words about it either, calling the deals "circular financing" or even "vendor financing" - where a company invests in or lends to its own customers so they can continue making purchases.
"Yes, the investment loans are unprecedented," Mr Altman told me on Monday.
But, he added, "it's also unprecedented for companies to be growing revenue this fast."
OpenAI's revenue is growing quickly, but it has never turned a profit.
I just didn't get what you titled this post from the actual article. The article just says McKinsey found only 30% of AI deployments they looked at actually saw a return on investment and that AI vendors have to figure that out in order to continue to sell AI services.
It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I've helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street
Life is incredibly resilient, a ton of life is going to survive and adapt just fine. You think marginally increased global temperatures are worse than the Chicxulub impact? It's crazy that in the face of environmental catastrophe people can still find ways to irrationally catastrophize
That's actually not clear at all. How did you draw this conclusion from what's written here? It cites decreased pollution across the northern hemisphere as one of the drivers of this, for example, and how is that horrifying?
Therapists should never impose their own beliefs on a client. This should be grounds for a disciplinary hearing before their licensing board and potential loss of licensure.
What is it that will make your parents happy? It sounds like nothing that you want will make them happy, so at some point you either need to do what they want and be miserable or do what fulfills you and let them handle their own misery. Secrets are not sustainable.
Caveat that most of the advice you're going to get on here, including mine, will be from western countries.