EP 03 · 12:01
Fourteen Times Faster
OpenAI makes a model think fourteen times faster, then looks at the next one and puts it back in the box. Your watch scores your sleep. A committee may evict the wallets from the index. And a dinosaur, sixty-six million years dead, is still chemically insisting. Yesterday they priced a mind; tonight they overclock it.
The Receipts
Every claim, sourced
Money DeskMoney Desk
Bitcoin price
PROVEN- ▸CoinGecko2026-08-14
- ▸Yahoo Finance2026-08-14
- ▸Fortune2026-08-14
One More ThingSixty-Six Million Years
organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bone
REPORTED- ▸ScienceDaily2026-08-14
Segment AFourteen Times Faster
OpenAI "Ultrafast" tier, GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tok/s on Cerebras
PROVEN- ▸OpenAI2026-08-13
- ▸Cerebras (investor release)2026-08-13
- ▸GlobeNewswire2026-08-13
- ▸unite.ai2026-08
Segment BThe One They Wouldn't Ship
OpenAI pauses Astra over possible "critical" cyber capability
PROVEN- ▸Forbes2026-08-09
- ▸Help Net Security2026-08-10
- ▸The Hacker News2026-08
- ▸Security Affairs2026-08
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