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Monday's Daily Auction Picks and AI is Super Unprofitable

Monday's Daily Auction Picks and AI is Super Unprofitable

Shane Cultra
June 23, 2025

It’s hard not to talk about Iran when you talk about the economy. Iran has been the enemy of the US my entire life. In 1980, the song Bomb Iran was a top 10 hit. They kidnapped Americans. Can you imagine if they took our embassy workers hostage now? What you’re seeing today is small in comparison. They’re greatly outmatched. China and Russia are not going to help them. Fifteen percent of the people in Israel are Russian, and Putin has already said there are too many Russians in Israel to help Iran—he’s staying out of it. Iran said they’ll shut off the shipping strait, which would crush China’s trade, and China is not going to be happy.

So while these types of world tensions aren’t nothing, I’m a buyer here on all major dips. This will not affect commerce in the US. The tariffs are a much bigger deal than Iran when it comes to the economy. The other problematic thing is Bitcoin. It folds like a scared teenager every time there’s an issue—even more than the stock market. It was supposed to act like gold, but it doesn’t. Other than the non-inflationary case, it’s not what I hoped it would be. I see much better returns in the stock market, and gold seems to have secured the role as the go-to asset for flight to safety.

They usually say “sell in May and go away,” but this spring and summer have been the opposite. Domain sales have been great too. I hope we overcome these Iran and tariff issues and start to fly.

No Links but Interesting Take Away

I recently read this article, which showed the cost to produce the results in AI is much more than users are paying for the results. The input token is the price we’re paying and the output is what it actually costs to get the output. The costs are eaten by the LLMs to gain market share. The model is unsustainable, but we assume they are hoping the costs come way down to make it a profitable model. The founders of Open AI have said they will need to get to $100B in annual revenue to break even and currently are at $5B. Which getting to $5B was already a record for fastest to that amount of ARR. We used to think Amazon was crazy for running so unprofitably for so long, and it turned profitable at $5B back in 2003. Investors are assuming the results will be the same.

Quote of the Day: “Iran has always been a country with a rich culture and a proud people, but its government has chosen a path of confrontation.“ –Barack Obama

Domain of the DaySunergy.com We loved this one on Sherpa. Will push $10K IMO

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