Technology Business Programming Network

Yeah, it's fair, it's fair.

I was watching TBPN's Dev Day coverage, and I guess in OpenAI there's a lot of talk of merging and unmerging, so merging things together and then unmerging them and splitting them up.

I still think there's some of this that needs to get consolidated and cleaned up, like, what's happening? Yeah.

because you've got all this and then you've got multiple places where you can access it you can access it here I guess this is nice where it's like okay you're saying you can pin these things yeah you can also pin

And earlier this month, we saw a great example of just how valuable storytelling has become in the marketplace.

OpenAI acquired TBPN, a two-year-old tech live stream with seventy-four thousand YouTube subscribers, for what the Financial Times reported as a low hundreds of millions.

Think about this, a podcast that recently launched, you know, decent listenership, but not big listenership, uh, got sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

The show generated about five million in ad revenue last year.

Anyway.

Anyways, I can dream.

And what did OpenAI immediately do? It shut down TBPN's advertising business.

Why? Because it's interested in creating a narrative and storytelling.

I mean, to really understand the macro reality here, the actual why behind this honestly humiliating pivot for a frontier lab, we have to look at the brutal economics of compute debt.

According to the Technology Business Programming Network, or TBPN, Wall Street private credit syndicates have extended roughly $40 billion in private debt to fund these gigawatt nuclear-powered data center clusters.

Wait, wait, wait.

$40 billion just in debt facilities to power the servers.

Um, and I mean, it worked really well for a few years and we sold the company and, you But yeah, I think, I mean, it's still very ahead of its time.

You have new companies popping up that are doing the same thing for other platforms like TBPN that just sold to OpenAI for $100 million in like six months.

So very interesting format, still very interested in that format.

But yeah, I decided to leave media because I didn't love the way that it was trending.

We are migrating from interactive compute to autonomous capabilities.

Yeah, the Technology Business Programming Network, TBPN, highlighted this perfectly.

Enterprises are abandoning the old paradigm where a human sits at a keyboard and prompts an AI.

That's too slow.