Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's comments about a government backstop for its financing 2) Why these statements matter 3) Does OpenAI need financial discipline 4) Do we want to be the discipline police? 5) Should we build a national compute reserve? 6) Why OpenAI is getting so much scrutiny lately 7) OpenAI's ambitious financial plans 8) Elon's $1 trillion pay package gets approved 9) Amazon sues Perplexity 10) Ilya's deposition revealed 11) Farmer insights

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