# Fourteen Times Faster

Meatware Nightly · EP 03 · 2026-08-14

Page: https://www.meatwarenightly.com/episodes/ep-03-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.

## Rundown

1. The boat, Diane (TOP OF SHOW)
2. Fourteen Times Faster (SEGMENT A — LEAD, PROVEN)
3. The One They Wouldn't Ship (SEGMENT B, PROVEN)
4. The Quantified Meat (SEGMENT C — THE MEATWARE REPORT, REPORTED)
5. Bitcoin, and the Index (SEGMENT D — THE MONEY DESK, PROVEN)
6. Sixty-Six Million Years (ONE MORE THING, REPORTED)

## Sources

### Money Desk

- PROVEN: Bitcoin price
  - [CoinGecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin), 2026-08-14
  - [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/investing/article/bitcoin-and-ethereum-prices-today-friday-august-14-2026-crypto-prices-backing-off-further-123636029.html), 2026-08-14
  - [Fortune](https://fortune.com/article/price-of-bitcoin-08-14-2026/), 2026-08-14
- PROVEN: MSCI index-exclusion proposal (Strategy, Metaplanet)
  - [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/08/14/bitcoin-holders-strategy-and-metaplanet-face-stock-index-exclusion), 2026-08-14
  - [The Block](https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-08-14-strategy-metaplanet-msci-index-proposal-411809), 2026-08-14

### Sixty-Six Million Years

- REPORTED: organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bone
  - [ScienceDaily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811053042.htm), 2026-08-14

### Fourteen Times Faster

- PROVEN: OpenAI "Ultrafast" tier, GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tok/s on Cerebras
  - [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/previewing-ultrafast/), 2026-08-13
  - [Cerebras (investor release)](https://investors.cerebras.ai/news-releases/news-release-details/cerebras-powers-ultrafast-mode-openais-gpt-56-sol), 2026-08-13
  - [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/13/3344804/0/en/cerebras-powers-ultrafast-mode-for-openai-s-gpt-5-6-sol.html), 2026-08-13
  - [unite.ai](https://www.unite.ai/cerebras-runs-openais-gpt-5-6-sol-at-750-tokens-per-second-in-new-ultrafast-tier/), 2026-08

### The One They Wouldn't Ship

- PROVEN: OpenAI pauses Astra over possible "critical" cyber capability
  - [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/09/openai-pauses-astra-after-it-nears-first-ever-critical-cyber-risk/), 2026-08-09
  - [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/10/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capabilities/), 2026-08-10
  - [The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openais-next-ai-model-astra-shows-cyber.html), 2026-08
  - [Security Affairs](https://securityaffairs.com/196931/ai/openai-pauses-astra-model-over-critical-cybersecurity-risk-concerns.html), 2026-08

### The Quantified Meat

- REPORTED: Samsung health AI on wearable biosignals; Google AI health coach + Abbott glucose data
  - [AI News](https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/samsung-health-ai-models-analyse-wearable-biosignal-data/), 2026-08-14
  - [AI News](https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/google-ai-health-coach-abbott-glucose-data/), 2026-08-14