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Anthropic is paying $1.25b/month through May 2029 for compute on xAI's Colossus data centers.
thats as much as $45 billion to a direct model-layer competitor
Every attorney has a line they never expected to say out loud.
Mine was: "Your Honor, the OnlyFans account is actually a marital asset."
The husband wanted half.
The wife insisted it was "personal expression" and therefore off-limits.
She also insisted it barely made any money.
We requested the 1099s.
It was making more than my entire firm.
Opposing counsel looked at the income figures and visibly reconsidered his hourly rate.
We hired a valuation expert who, with an entirely straight face, explained subscriber churn, projected brand growth, and the economic value of her "top 0.3%" badge.
The judge asked if we could use a different term than "Thirst Empire" in the record.
We could not.
The husband wanted an ongoing cut of future revenue.
The wife said she'd rather delete the account.
Our expert confirmed that nuking it would destroy a 8-figure asset.
The courtroom went quiet while everyone processed that sentence.
We settled: she kept the account, bought him out with a lump-sum payment, and signed a clause promising never to use his likeness or name in any content.
As we left, he asked if he could at least get a free subscription.
No.
He has to pay.
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”