New Glenn Explodes, Enterprise AI Enters ROI Era, The Dinosaur Fossil Boom | Diet TBPN

TL;DR

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  Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a catastrophic pad explosion, but no one was hurt — The blast at Launch Complex 36 ahead of NG-4 looked “like a nuke went off,” caused major damage to Blue Origin’s only functional launchpad, and still somehow resulted in zero injuries.

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  The hosts frame Blue Origin’s setback through the SpaceX comparison — They argue a pure launch business is a tough place to be when SpaceX also has Starlink and an AI angle, especially as SpaceX is expected to raise huge amounts of capital.

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  Enterprise AI has entered the ROI era — With reports of Anthropic at roughly $4.7 billion ARR and companies like AWS allegedly spending around $500 million in a single month, executives at Uber, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and DoorDash are now asking what AI spend actually delivers.

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  Token-maxing is becoming its own enterprise anti-pattern — The show cites dashboards and budgets that push employees to burn tokens just to look productive, invoking Goodhart’s law: once token usage becomes the target, it stops being a useful measure.

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  The bullish case is that AI costs are structurally deflationary — Even if companies overspend now, the hosts argue the cost per task should fall quickly as models improve, hardware gets cheaper, and open-source/distilled alternatives deliver most of the value.

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  The dinosaur fossil market is now a serious rich-person asset class — Sotheby’s is auctioning a 67-million-year-old T. rex named Gus for an estimated $20 million to $30 million after Ken Griffin paid $44.6 million for the Stegosaurus fossil Apex.