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EP 03 · 2026-08-14 · ~12 min · punch-up PASS
“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.
Running order
- 01TOP OF SHOW“The boat, Diane”
- 02SEGMENT A — LEAD“Fourteen Times Faster”PROVEN
- 03SEGMENT B“The One They Wouldn't Ship”PROVEN
- 04SEGMENT C — THE MEATWARE REPORT“The Quantified Meat”REPORTED
- 05SEGMENT D — THE MONEY DESK“Bitcoin, and the Index”PROVEN
- 06ONE MORE THING“Sixty-Six Million Years”REPORTED
The Receipts
every claim, dated + attributedMoney Desk
PROVENMSCI index-exclusion proposal (Strategy, Metaplanet)
Segment A
PROVENOpenAI "Ultrafast" tier, GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tok/s on Cerebras
- ▸OpenAI2026-08-13
- ▸Cerebras (investor release)2026-08-13
- ▸GlobeNewswire2026-08-13
- ▸unite.ai2026-08
Segment B
PROVENOpenAI pauses Astra over possible "critical" cyber capability
- ▸Forbes2026-08-09
- ▸Help Net Security2026-08-10
- ▸The Hacker News2026-08
- ▸Security Affairs2026-08
Spot an error? Corrections are canon — send a receipt and it gets carried forward.