AI
Artificial intelligence: the models, the labs, the people building them, and what it all means.
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Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade Crypto and Pay Autonomously, and Why Agentic Finance Is Massively Bullish for Bitcoin
Coinbase just fired the starting gun on agentic finance. With the launch of Coinbase for Agents, announced June 11, 2026, you can now connect your favorite AI agent…
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Dario Amodei on Policy for the AI Exponential: Anthropic’s Plan for AI Regulation, Job Displacement, Civil Liberties, and Democratic Leadership
In June 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published “Policy on the AI Exponential”, a wide-ranging essay arguing that the gap between how fast AI is advancing and how…
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The AI Layoff Trap: Why Competing Firms Over-Automate, Destroy Their Own Customers, and How a Pigouvian Automation Tax Could Break the Arms Race
A new economics paper called The AI Layoff Trap, by Brett Hemenway Falk of the University of Pennsylvania and Gerry Tsoukalas of Boston University, makes an argument that…
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Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Anthropic Ships Its First Generally Available Mythos-Class AI Model With New Safeguards
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, the first Mythos-class models offered beyond a tiny circle of cyber defenders. Fable 5 is the generally available…
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Anthropic Raises $65 Billion Series H at $965 Billion Valuation to Fund AI Safety Research and Massive Compute Expansion
Anthropic has closed one of the largest private financing rounds in the history of technology, raising $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation.…
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Claude Opus 4.8 Released: Anthropic Bets on Honesty, Dynamic Workflows, Effort Control, and Cheaper Fast Mode
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, the newest member of its flagship Opus class, available today across every surface and priced exactly like the model it replaces. The…
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SpaceX S-1 IPO Filing Breakdown, Ticker SPCX on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas, xAI Integration, Musk’s Trillion Share Mars Pay Plan, $18.7B Revenue, and the 100 Gigawatt Orbital AI Compute Bet
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC on May 20, 2026, kicking off the largest and weirdest IPO in modern capital markets history.…
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How the X For You Algorithm Works (May 15, 2026 Source Code Walkthrough)
On May 15, 2026, xAI shipped a major update to the open-source release of the X “For You” recommendation algorithm. The repository now includes a runnable end-to-end inference…
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The Book of Elon by Eric Jorgenson: Complete Summary of Musk’s Operating System, The Algorithm, The Tesla Master Plan, and the 69 Core Musk Methods
Eric Jorgenson’s The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success (Magrathea Publishing, 2026) is the third entry in his series of compiled-wisdom books, following The Almanack…
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Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: AI Is the Perfect Scapegoat for Layoffs, Canada Has Trump Derangement Syndrome, and 50% of Shopify Code Is Now AI-Generated
TLDW Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke sat down with Harry Stebbings on 20VC for one of the most candid and controversial conversations of his career. Lütke argues that the…
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Brian Chesky on AI Founder Mode, the 11-Star Experience, and Reinventing Airbnb for the Age of AI
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky sits down with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on Invest Like The Best to talk about the next evolution of company building: AI Founder Mode. He covers…
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Howard Marks on Why Most Investors Lose, the AI Bubble, India, and the Hunt for the $10 Bill Nobody Picked Up
TLDW Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital and the author of the memos every serious investor reads first, sat down with Nikhil Kamath for a wide-ranging conversation on…