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Coogan: Tesla Acquisition Eliminates Musk's Operational Pay Milestones
“If Tesla undergoes a change of control, essentially, if Tesla is acquired, the operational requirements disappear. You no longer have to hit a million robotaxis or a million optimists to unlock those new tranches of stock for Elon. If there's a change of contr…”
China adds one gigawatt of nuclear capacity every two weeks, Coogan says.
“Countries like China are bringing online one gigawatt of nuclear capacity every other week, which is insane.”
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay over $900 million
“A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay more than nine hundred million dollars And impose new restrictions on how minors in the state use Facebook and Instagram.”
Demis Hassabis Was Disengaged From DeepMind Management Before Stepping Down
“Sources tell me he's already been disengaged from day-to-day management for a while now, but he was a firewall between DeepMind and the rest of Google, even as the two got pulled closer over the last couple of years.”
Intel Converted CHIPS Grants to Equity to Meet Trump Requirement
“So in order for the government stake to reach 10% demanded by President Donald Trump, Intel had to convert billions in manufacturing grants advanced under the 2022 CHIPS Act, plus 3.2 billion dollars of contracts from the Department of Defense into equity.”
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO for Alphabet role
“He announced that he's stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind. He's also stepping up into the role of Google DeepMind chairman, and he will also be Alphabet's chief scientist.”
Shkreli: Buyer of Aschenbrenner's public book made $3B-$4B instant markup
“When it came to the public, you know, book, it does sound like you know, the buyer of that book basically got a, from what we were told, a three to four billion dollar Insta markup.”
Coogan: China controls 85% of the global humanoid robotics market
“So 5000 units were delivered from each unitary and adubot. By comparison, U.S. Companies, including Tesla and figure, shipped only a few hundred robots each, if that. China is also estimated to control about 85% of the global humanoid robotics market, and also…”
Hugging Face defended against AI breach using Chinese open model GLM-5.2
“So hugging face had to turn to open model, specifically GLM 5.2, which is deeply ironic, a Chinese open weight model that they run on their own infrastructure.”
White House to redirect $200B research budget from universities to scientists
“The guidance will reshape how the federal government spends roughly two hundred billion dollars a year on research for the rest of Trump's term. The administration wants more of that money going directly to scientists through fellowships and awards rather than…”
Pronto's Autonomous Tech Has Surpassed Human Productivity in Mining
“The pronto technology has got gotten past human productivity, which means you go to a gold mine CEO, you talk about go to market, you go to a gold mine CEO and you say, would you like to have 20% more gold per year?”
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.”
Major US Companies Secretly Rely on Chinese Open-Source AI
“There's all these major American companies that don't typically advertise it, but they use a lot of Chinese open source right now.”
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: Top RL Data Contractors Earn Seven Figures Annually
“The top expert contractors at every data company, they're all making seven figures a year. Which is pretty crazy since people thought of data labeling as a 10 dollar an hour task, and now you have people making millions of dollars a year, because they're actua…”
Hormozi: Fast-scaling $100M e-commerce brands rely on decentralized UGC and AI screening
“Those guys are all completely the ones who are crushing it, going to zero to a hundred million plus in call it like 12 to 24 months. Like all the companies that are running the same playbook is decentralized. UGC with kind of like AI backend for screening for …”
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: Meta Reassigned 30% to 50% of Core Engineers to Data Labeling
“30 to 50% of engineers on core teams have been forcibly, forcefully reassigned to data labeling.”
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.”
Hays: GPT-5.6 access is restricted to 20 companies by US government
“Of course by US government directive, access is limited to only 20 pre-approved companies.”
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.”
Paul: MVP became boxing's top promoter by operating like an SF startup
“So just by running it like a proper SF startup, we've, amongst many other things, but we, that's where the, why we've been able to become the number one promoter in the sport in four years when a lot of these other people have been doing it for 3040, 50 years.”
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.”
Baker: Social Media Accounts Are Pumping Micro-Cap AI Stocks by 1,000%
“And then post about, you know, outline your thesis in a thirty-five million dollar market cap company and send it up like a thousand percent. And there's a lot of that going on.”
Prince: Cloudflare's network peering makes bandwidth effectively free
“Bandwidth for us is effectively free.”
Prince: Cloudflare often avoids paying for space or power
“And because of where we deploy systems, we often are in places where
We don't have to pay for the space or the power, which allows us to then pass those savings on to customers.
So it can be significantly more cost effective to use inference with us than it …”
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…”
Gerstner: Zero dark GPUs or unused compute tokens exist globally today
“There's not a dark GPU in the world today. ... There's not a dark token in the world today.”
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: AI Chatbot Referral Traffic Converts Higher Than Google
“The referral traffic from these chatbots are converting higher than Google, and so actually the chatbots are actually additive to travel companies.”
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.”
Elon Musk's Memphis AI cluster operates at 11% utilization, wasting $12 billion
“In fact, Elon's like got 500,000 GBP hundreds in Memphis. And running an 11% MFU and less than 60% node allocation. I mean, this is twelve billion dollars of compute being wasted.”
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.”
Isaac: AI Model Distillation Across Competitors Is an Industry Open Secret
“Elon went out of his way to say, Everyone kind of does this. It's like an open secret in the industry, which I think is like, also kind of true, but that doesn't make it, there's like, it's fraught, I guess is what I would say.”