BYOCompute, Pope Destroys False Idol, Ben Affleck's White Pill | Joe Gebbia, Molly Fowler, Tom Dotan, Pim de Witte, Greg Castle

OpenAI's BYOC billing and a wave of fresh early-stage raises signal startups are solving inference costs and funding deep-tech bets simultaneously.

• BYOCompute launch: OpenAI's Dev Day 'sign in with ChatGPT' lets apps like Notion draw inference from a user's ChatGPT plan instead of API credits, easing startup compute-cost risk.
• Pope vs. Anthropic: NYT reports Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah lobbied Pope Leo XIV's advisors under NDA to validate Claude's possible consciousness; Dario Amodei declined a Vatican invite.

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