Crypto to Semiconductor Bubble: Next Hot Industry #132
In this episode, we bring you detailed discussions on the background of OpenAI's massive API price cuts and the talk of a stock trading app announcing surprisingly strong financial results.
OpenAI slashed API prices for GPT-5.6 by up to 80%.
OpenAI has reduced the API prices for GPT-5.6 Luna, its latest model released just about three weeks ago, by 80% and Terra by 20%. Surprisingly, this is driven by infrastructure improvements through rewrites of GPU kernels, alongside intense competition with low-cost open-weight models originating from China, such as Moonshot.
The top revenue earner has shifted significantly from crypto to prediction markets.
Robinhood, a stock trading app, recorded a record-high quarterly revenue of $1.31 billion. While prediction market revenue surged over tenfold compared to the previous year, cryptocurrency trading revenue dropped by 38%, and the market landscape is starting to change with the emergence of prediction market exchanges like Rothera.
Experimental results showing AI chatbots outperforming human scammers are also introduced.
An experiment is discussed in which an AI agent using Claude surpassed human scammer roles in building trust for romance scams, achieving a 46% request compliance rate after a week of interaction. The conversation continues with even deeper insights, so please be sure to listen to the full episode.
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