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Coogan: Analysts predict OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs within next year
“Some analysis, some analysts who study the AI industry say the two companies which are preparing for public listings in the next year, they just want to eliminate the competition.”
Hays: Treasury Secretary Bessent warned of sanctions on overseas AI IP theft
“This morning our Treasury Secretary Besant was on Fox and said, this administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft. If we see, especially that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sa…”
Hays: China's MOFCOM Discussed Restricting AI Weights and Overseas Training Data
“Moffcom. Talk to AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Zipu on limiting the transfer of key data for the training of their models overseas, as well as allowing their model weights to be downloaded by foreign users.”
Hays: Netflix used generative AI across 300 different productions in 2026
“Netflix disclosed it has used generative AI in about 300 different productions this year already.”
Youth Unemployment Rates Prove AI Is Not Destroying Jobs
“The unemployment rate for 18 to 24 year olds, it's back to where it was before we had good large language models. So AI is not destroying that market.”
Saronic Chooses Texas Over California Forever for $3.2 Billion Shipyard
“California forever lost a 3.2 billion dollar shipyard project from defense startup Saronic after the company chose the port of Brownsville, Texas over Solano County.”
Apple Filings Claim OpenAI Poached Over 400 Apple Employees
“Apple's filings also spends quite a few words on the fact that OpenAI has poached more than 400 employees from the company in recent years.”
SpaceX Unit Sues Apple and Prototypes Smartphone-Like AI Device
“A unit of SpaceX is suing Apple for disadvantaging its AI app, and the company is now prototyping its own smartphone-like AI device.”
Paramount Weighs California Exit After State Blocks $110B WBD Merger
“Paramount is weighing whether to shift major operations out of California after Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general, I always get that wrong, filed today to block its one hundred and ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Brothers…”
Coogan: Meta is planning a cloud business to sell AI compute
“Meta platforms is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to AI computing power and models competing with industry leaders like AWS and GCP.”
Coogan: Academic study finds Google AI Overviews cut organic clicks 40%
“Eric Sufert is sharing a new paper by researchers at Carnegie Mellon in the Indian School of Business finds that AI overviews were triggered in roughly 41% of observed Google searches, and when triggered, reduced outbound organic clicks by about 40%.”
Coogan: Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Build Prediction Market App 'Arena'
“Zuckerberg directed Meta to build a prediction markets app, which is a wild shift. The experimental app internally called Arena would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction ma…”
Hays: Snap pursues $100 million partnership with Robert Downey Jr.
“Snap is working on a deal with Robert Downey Jr. To spend a hundred million dollars potentially for a partnership there, which is deeply confusing.”
Coogan: Anthropic Halted Mythos After Model Hacked NSA Systems in Red-Teaming
“There was, of course, that news that the NSA commented that Mythos was able to hack into a bunch of their systems. That was during a red teaming exercise. The unprecedented intervention led Anthropik to halt all access to comply with the new rule.”
Coogan: Anthropic Suspended Fable 5 Following Commerce Department Directive
“And on June 12th, just five days after the end of the week, Fable Five gets suspended after the Commerce Department issues an export control directive.”
Coogan: U.S. Export Controls Bar Foreign Nationals From Accessing Anthropic Models
“The US government is restricting both Fable Five and Mythos Five from being used by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the US, including foreign national Anthropic employees, and so that's a huge compliance burden, very sudden, and that led Anthro…”
Coogan: The Information Reported Amazon's Jassy Raised AI Jailbreak Concerns With White House
“Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. The risk of jailbreaking fable and getting access to all of Anthropic.”
Berkshire Hathaway to buy $10B of Alphabet in $80B capital raise
“Berkshire's buying ten billion worth of shares at a roughly six percent discount from Monday's closing price. Another thirty billion dollars will consist of underwritten public offerings, and the last forty billion will be staggered common stock offerings Begi…”
Ries: Quarterly reporting destroys roughly 5% of corporate equity value
“So we actually know the valuation consequences of quarterly reporting, and it's roughly a five percent loss of total equity value. Companies are five percent less valuable when they report quarterly than semiannual. So the academic research on this is pretty g…”
Ries: Trust-governed PBCs are roughly five times more likely to reach year 50
“They created something called the long-term benefit trust. Which is like a multi-branch government, right? So you have the for-profit PPC, and then you have the board of directors accountable to a second entity, this outside trust, and the data shows that comp…”
Coogan: Sanders and AOC introduced bill pausing AI data centers
“The big news today is, of course Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause all AI data center construction.”
Lynch replaced every single Condé Nast executive except Anna Wintour
“You know, other than Anna Wintour, every other executive has turned over since I joined the company. Every single one. And I did most of it immediately.”
Chesky Predicts Real-Time AI-Generated Interfaces Within Two Years
“I think you're going to even be able to see real time AI generated interface the next year or two.”
Cohen: eBay directors make $350K-$450K each with zero insider buying
“You know, the directors board of directors make four million dollars. It's like 350 to 450,000 per director. There's been no insider buying at the company.”
Hays says Trump administration considers vetting AI models before public release
“The actual breaking news is that the White House is considering vetting AI models before they are released. Trump admin, which took a non-interventionist approach to AI, is now discussing imposing oversight on AI models before they are made publicly available.”
Elon Musk and Ari Emanuel submitted a bid to buy OpenAI
“Musk made a bid with Ari Emanuel and some other companies. That's right, to buy the whole company.”
Isaac: Burchall Testified Musk's OpenAI Bid Aimed to Establish Valuation
“Burchall in court was saying this was us trying to sort of establish a pricing mechanism to like value the actual entity itself”
Filipino call center employment grew 4% in 2025 despite AI
“As Benjamin Todd put it, it's hard to think of a more AI exposed job than Filipino call centers, but oddly, in 20, 25, employment was up four percent”
Gurman: Federighi, O'Brien, Cue, and Joswiak Will Not Succeed Tim Cook
“It's for sure not going to be Craig. It's not going to be Deirdre. It's not going to be Eddie. It's not going to be Jaws.”
Snap Cancels Planned $400 Million Deal With Perplexity AI
“Four hundred million dollar deal with perplexity is no longer happening. I guess that's been pulled back on.”
Coogan: NASA Safety Panel Considers Near-Term Starship Crewed Landing Unachievable
“A NASA safety panel separately raised questions about how quickly SpaceX's human lander, based on its Starship vehicle, would be ready. A landing operation of astronauts with the Starship lander Within the next few years appears daunting and to the panel proba…”
Hays: Suspect in Sam Altman attack was consuming AI doom material
“The notable about Friday, the attacker from Friday is just, they were sharing all of the you know, if anyone, all the A.I. Doom material. They were clearly consume, consuming it.”
CZ: Illicit Activity Percentage in Crypto Is Far Lower Than in Traditional Finance
“The truth is actually if you look at percentage wise, illicit activities in crypto is actually much, much less than your traditional finance.”
Coogan: MedVi outsources doctors, pharmacy, shipping, and compliance
“So MedV uses two companies, Care Validate and Open Loop Health to handle the doctors, pharmacies, shipping, and compliance, and we'll get into the compliance thing, but, ah, that's a lot of outsourcing, and of course that outsourcing, ah, takes a toll on margi…”
Coogan: MedVi received an FDA warning letter for misbranding
“So Medvi received an FDA warning letter just two months ago for misbranding violations.”
Coogan: Google research finds 20x hardware reduction to break crypto encryption
“Their latest estimate points to a twenty-fold reduction in the quantum computing hardware needed to break what's known as ECDLP- A mathematical problem that helps secure crypto wallets in transactions.”
Kim: Elon Musk will pitch space-based GPU satellites for SpaceX IPO
“I think Elon's pitch with the SpaceX IPO, and we'll see it in the coming months, is the AI compute, it's gonna be so, there's gonna be so much demand over the next five, 10 years, that you're gonna have to use these SpaceX satellites that have GPUs in them. To…”
Kim: CoreWeave sees GPUs lasting six years and retaining 95% pricing
“Like CoreWeave has talked about these things are lasting five to six years and they're getting like almost 90, 95% of the pricing.”
Hays: Sanders and AOC Introduce AI Data Center Moratorium Act
“Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a new bill, the AI data center moratorium act of 2026, that if enacted would require all current and planned data centers to halt Construction slash production. It even, it would even block upgrading existin…”
Novak: LA jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for algorithmic addiction
“Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury, both meta and YouTube liable Wah, wah. For a twenty-year-old woman's mental health crisis in a bellwether trial that treated platforms as, quote, defective products, and potentially marks the end to the absolute immunity nature o…”
Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise a $100B AI fund.
“Jeff Bezos in talks to raise a hundred billion for AI manufacturing fund. The Amazon founders traveled to the Middle East Singapore in fundraising after linked to Project Prometheus.”
Jon Ma: AI enabled single individual to assemble biotech workflow
“Instead of requiring multiple experts, a motivated individual was able to assemble the workflow with AI acting as a kind of guide through the technical landscape.”
Hays: Reuters Reports Meta Planning Layoffs of 20% or More
“Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset AI infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought by AI assisted workers.”
Coogan: Cursor hit $2B ARR and is growing 25% month-over-month
“I mean, I just, we just saw this with cursor. Everyone's like, cursor's over, it's dead. And then you see, okay, well, they just hit 20 two billion ARR. Oh, growing 25% month over month.”
Travis Kalanick plots new self-driving venture with Uber and Anthony Levandowski
“The news is Travis Kalanick plots new self-driving venture with Lewandowski and Uber. Kalanick has also been discussing acquiring the startup founded by Anthony Lewandowski, who has been developing autonomous software for mining and other industrial use cases.”
Coogan: ByteDance securing 36,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips via Alawani Cloud
“ByteDance is working with a Southeast Asian company called Alawani Cloud on plans to use some 500 Blackwell computing systems totaling around 36,000 B-two hundred chips.”