How Jeffrey Epstein made himself a major player in technology

There are prominent technical names throughout the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. these men (They are almost all men) had widely varying degrees of interaction with Epstein, and the details are very important. But it’s just that overall: you spend a lot of time in these files, and you start to get an idea of ​​the way the world works with a certain type of very wealthy, very powerful businessman. And it starts to feel bad.

on This episode of vertcastDavid and Nilay start the show by talking about the latest batch of emails from the Epstein files, both what we’ve learned and the very strange way they’re being disseminated. there Interesting business stories here; There are apocalyptic plots to change the world. We’re still not sure how to talk about any of it, other than to continue showing what we find.

Next, it’s time for the other thing that’s blowing tech minds this week: Super Bowl ads from Anthropicwhich is not only a candid shot of OpenAI’s plan to serve ads to ChatGPT but it’s also quite clear. Advertisements The discussion began About how we use AI and how we pay for it and we’ve made that a lot clearer as well How risky OpenAI’s position is now. It’s also very good advertising.

If you want to learn more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first about the Epstein files:

And in the lightning round: