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Alexandra Papadopoulos

@wusi.bsky.social

Friend of art and technology. Reader, writer, swims. Frogs 𓆏. Against fascism. Sympathy for the Luddites.

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Werde es ausprobieren!

07.11.2025 08:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
OpenAI Burned An Estimated $19 Billion In Cash Between 2023 and 1H 2025 - Where Did It Go?
OpenAI had $9.6 billion in cash at the end of June.

So, Microsoft’s funding in 2023 was $2 billion in cash (and $8 billion in credits, but I’m not counting those), add in the $6.6 billion of cash from 2024 (i’m not including the line of credit, as that would be a “cash equivalent), $10 billion from SoftBank and other investors in June 2025, and we assume $2 billion in revenue in 2023, $3.7 billion in revenue in 2024, and $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025 (for a total of $28.6 billion in cash), this means that OpenAI burned $19 billion in cash from the beginning of 2023 through the end of June 2025.

Yet the reported losses are much, much smaller. 

For the sake of argument, I’m also going to leave OpenAI’s $4 billion line of credit out of the calculation.

In 2024, OpenAI allegedly burned $5 billion. Through 1H 2025, it had a “net loss” of $13.5 billion but an “operating loss” of $6.7 billion, and the painfully-worded accounting leaked to The Information is done in such a way as to make it unclear how much of that is cash, with the hopes that you believe it’s not cash burn.

$19 billion in burned cash doesn’t make sense based on any reported numbers.

Even if we assume OpenAI burned $2 billion in cash in 2023, $5 billion in cash in 2024 and $6.7 billion in cash in 1H 2025, that’s $14.9 billion in missing burn to get us to the $28.6 billion total.

I guess there could be prepayments as part of its deals with Broadcom or CoreWeave, but even then, The Information had another tidbit:

OpenAI also recorded around $670 million of equity it gave to unnamed entities for providing the company with servers in the first half of 2025, compared to $1 billion in such equity compensation last year. While it’s not clear which cloud provider or providers received the equity, the decision could help OpenAI minimize its cash burn as it projected it would spend $16 billion to ren…

OpenAI Burned An Estimated $19 Billion In Cash Between 2023 and 1H 2025 - Where Did It Go? OpenAI had $9.6 billion in cash at the end of June. So, Microsoft’s funding in 2023 was $2 billion in cash (and $8 billion in credits, but I’m not counting those), add in the $6.6 billion of cash from 2024 (i’m not including the line of credit, as that would be a “cash equivalent), $10 billion from SoftBank and other investors in June 2025, and we assume $2 billion in revenue in 2023, $3.7 billion in revenue in 2024, and $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025 (for a total of $28.6 billion in cash), this means that OpenAI burned $19 billion in cash from the beginning of 2023 through the end of June 2025. Yet the reported losses are much, much smaller. For the sake of argument, I’m also going to leave OpenAI’s $4 billion line of credit out of the calculation. In 2024, OpenAI allegedly burned $5 billion. Through 1H 2025, it had a “net loss” of $13.5 billion but an “operating loss” of $6.7 billion, and the painfully-worded accounting leaked to The Information is done in such a way as to make it unclear how much of that is cash, with the hopes that you believe it’s not cash burn. $19 billion in burned cash doesn’t make sense based on any reported numbers. Even if we assume OpenAI burned $2 billion in cash in 2023, $5 billion in cash in 2024 and $6.7 billion in cash in 1H 2025, that’s $14.9 billion in missing burn to get us to the $28.6 billion total. I guess there could be prepayments as part of its deals with Broadcom or CoreWeave, but even then, The Information had another tidbit: OpenAI also recorded around $670 million of equity it gave to unnamed entities for providing the company with servers in the first half of 2025, compared to $1 billion in such equity compensation last year. While it’s not clear which cloud provider or providers received the equity, the decision could help OpenAI minimize its cash burn as it projected it would spend $16 billion to ren…

Tomorrow's Premium: Based on analysis of years of reporting, OpenAI has burned $23 billion since 2023, ending 1H 2025 with $9.6bn cash. OpenAI appears to have $9bn+ more in burn than has previously been reported.

Here's $10 off annual.

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06.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 539    🔁 88    💬 6    📌 4
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Microsoft steigt ab von Feudalherr zu Raubritter und Wegelagerer. Hab den Mist gekündigt und benutze fortan VIM. Oder zur Not sogar EMACS. Mittlerweile ist es mir diese Fede egal. Irgendwann wird es meine Familie auch lernen.

06.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

"Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson that quotes Trump’s rantings about Tylenol as if they were peer-reviewed studies. Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy and the animating force in Republican politics."

29.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 1725    🔁 521    💬 122    📌 42
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Neuer Verein gegründet: Claudio Zanetti und sein Comeback als rechter Netzwerker Der ehemalige SVP-Nationalrat Claudio Zanetti tritt nach seiner Abwahl wieder in Erscheinung – mit einem Verein und bekannten Figuren, die gegen Klimapolitik, Migration und «transnationale Diktaturbestrebungen» mobil machen. Was steckt dahinter?

Hier drehen sie gerade wieder mal durch. Watching you. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/claudio-zane...

26.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Defeating Fascism
For @rawstory.com

Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

20.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 271    🔁 89    💬 6    📌 6

Ich bin Schweizerin. Ich muss immer googeln, wo "Sauerland" ist.

08.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Black and white portrait of a woman in profile, with short wavy hair and wearing a knitted sweater.

Black and white portrait of a woman in profile, with short wavy hair and wearing a knitted sweater.

7 October 1916 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Sophie Slier-Roselaar, was born in Amsterdam.

In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

07.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 424    🔁 101    💬 10    📌 3
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EPF ESSAYS Band 8: Maschinenaffekte | Edition Patrick Frey Der gegenwärtige Diskurs über künstliche Intelligenz beschäftigt sich vor allem mit anwendungsorientierten Lösungen, die durch die neuen Möglichkeiten des maschinellen Lernens im Sinne von «Large Lang...

www.editionpatrickfrey.com/de/books/epf...

02.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Maschinenffekte - über KI und Gefühle Podcast-Folge · EPF Essays · 02.10.2025 · 37 Min.

podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/e...

02.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Es existieren in Deutschland keine nennenswerten linksextremen Strukturen und sie haben natürlich auch keinerlei Einfluss auf die öffentlichen Diskurse. Was die Rechten "Linksradikal" nennen, ist einfach der Inhalt des Grundgesetzes.

Johann van de Bron
‪@johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social‬
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Es existieren in Deutschland keine nennenswerten linksextremen Strukturen und sie haben natürlich auch keinerlei Einfluss auf die öffentlichen Diskurse. Was die Rechten "Linksradikal" nennen, ist einfach der Inhalt des Grundgesetzes. Johann van de Bron ‪@johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social‬ https://bsky.app/profile/johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social/post/3lzlretij6c2c

#Linksextreme @johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social

24.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 787    🔁 265    💬 12    📌 4
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#Kulturkampf mit Kindern

24.09.2025 18:52 — 👍 49    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
MASCHINENAFFEKTE
ELIZABETH A. WILSON
Herausgegeben von
ALEXANDRA PAPADOPOULOS und PETER SCHNEIDER

MASCHINENAFFEKTE ELIZABETH A. WILSON Herausgegeben von ALEXANDRA PAPADOPOULOS und PETER SCHNEIDER

Das neueste Buch unserer EPF-Essays ist erschienen.

17.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0
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Education is the enemy of fascism.

16.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 27383    🔁 8332    💬 1624    📌 522

Und Frösche, herzige Fröschchen. Denn es ist furchtbar.

17.09.2025 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sophia ist grossartig. Sie hat auf eine leicht einschüchternde Weise sehr oft sehr Recht. Ausserdem habt Ihr Manieren und Humor. Ich liebe Podcasters, die freundlich sind.

21.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ich habe manchmal einwenig Angst vor Sophia.

20.08.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Wer braucht schon legitime Gründe? Um ihre Handlungen zu rechtfertigen, erfinden Putin und Trump einfach «Ursachen».

Ursachen erfinden. Sieht man oft, auch wenn im Text nicht erwähnt: z.B. Wagenknecht: "Brandmauer ist Ursache für mehr Stimmen AfD" oder im Gesundheitswesen: "Migrantinnen gehen in die Notfallstation anstatt zur Hausärztin". Findet eigene Beispiele.

Guter Artikel.

www.republik.ch/2025/08/20/w...

20.08.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)

Der ist gut. Habe ich aber erst ein paar Jahre später entdeckt. Im Radio kam sehr wahrscheinlich Frank Duval oder so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsS...

02.08.2025 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Hier drehen gerade alle Medien durch wegen 39% US-Zoll. Dabei war der rechten Mehrheit schon lange klar:

01.08.2025 22:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As this obit mentions, Tom Lehrer gave up all copyright to his musical works. The lyrics, the music he wrote, and any audio and video he owned are in the public domain. What a mensch. A lot can be found on his website (which I've periodically backed up in the Internet Archive, including just now).

27.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 190    🔁 46    💬 9    📌 1
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Tom Lehrer, Harvard’s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97 Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 97.

Breaking: Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times

27.07.2025 18:52 — 👍 92    🔁 28    💬 5    📌 12

Was für eine fantastische EM #Euro2025

27.07.2025 18:53 — 👍 97    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Tom Lehrer ist gestorben. Sucht nach "Vatican Rag" und "Elements". Und wenn mich jemand fragt: ich kann seine Sachen auswendig.

27.07.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hoffentlich wächst es nicht nach.

27.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Es gibt diese Goalie-Handschuhe, die sehen einwenig so aus:

27.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Die Jungen wissen ja gar nicht mehr, was eine Festplatte ist.

22.07.2025 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

(Cis) "Frauen und Mädchen müssen geschützt werden, weil sie naturgemäß...*räusper, räusper* dümmer sind"

30.06.2025 11:10 — 👍 257    🔁 37    💬 9    📌 0

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