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🏛️ Trump hits pause on AI safety

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🏛️ Trump Says "Nah" to AI Safety Checks

  • President Trump just paused the executive order that would force AI companies to let the government test models before release. His reason?? Can't let China win.
  • Big AI labs now have a free pass to ship beasts like GPT-5.5 with zero pre-launch safety checks. What could possibly go wrong :/

🚨 California Tries to Catch the Bodies AI is Dropping

  • Governor Gavin Newsom signed an order to study AI job losses - right after Meta axed 8,000 workers to fund more AI. The state's exploring universal basic capital and faster layoff alerts.
  • Over 70,000 tech jobs gone in 2026 and counting. California is the first state actually trying to do something instead of tweeting "learn to prompt."

💻 OpenAI's Codex Can Now Use Your Mac While It's Locked

  • OpenAI gave Codex the ability to look at your screen and work autonomously for hours or days. New feature lets it use your desktop apps even when your Mac is locked.
  • We're like... one update away from fully autonomous AI workers. Sir that's not an assistant, that's a coworker who never sleeps.

🤖 Sundar Pichai Says Your Current Phone is a Flip Phone

  • Google's CEO says AI agents will run 24/7 across all your devices in three years. Today's tech?? It'll look as ancient as a flip phone.
  • Google is going all-in on agents. The vibe shift from "AI helps you" to "AI does it for you" is happening fast.

💸 The Money Hose Will Not Stop

  • Figure AI's founder raised $700 million for a new personal AI startup called Hark. Meanwhile, Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 BILLION a month for compute. Per. Month.
  • The cash flowing into AI hardware is unhinged. We're in the brute-force money era and nobody's tapping the brakes.

💰 The Magnificent Seven Are Eating Good

  • The "Magnificent Seven" tech giants are posting massive AI-fueled growth, with Nvidia leading. They're also borrowing billions in bonds to build more data centers.
  • Wall Street is convinced the AI boom is real profits, not hype. Either they're right or we're all about to find out together :)

🏦 JPMorgan Hands AI to Every Banker on Earth

  • JPMorgan is rolling out AI tools to investment bankers globally and using Anthropic's cybersecurity model to hunt software vulnerabilities.
  • Wall Street is quietly hiring more AI experts and fewer traditional bankers. The "I'll just go into finance" backup plan is getting cooked.

📉 Nobody in DC Wants to Use Grok

  • SpaceX's Grok chatbot is barely being used by the US government even though it's dirt cheap. Federal workers heavily prefer OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google tools instead.
  • If Grok can't crack government or enterprise, it could dent SpaceX's $1.75 TRILLION valuation. Turns out "edgy chatbot" isn't a procurement strategy.

🎵 Spotify Goes Full AI Music Lab

🚀 Modal Labs Hits $4.65B for Finding GPUs

  • AI startup Modal raised $355 million helping companies find the rare chips they need to run AI. Revenue rocketed to $300 million a year.
  • The demand for compute is so out of control that "we'll find you GPUs" is now a multi-billion dollar business. It's giving gold rush vibes.

☕ Starbucks Gives Up On AI That Couldn't Count Milk

  • Starbucks just killed an AI tool meant to count milk and syrups after nine months. Workers said the app kept miscounting and made their jobs worse.
  • A reality check that AI doesn't magically fix real-world problems. Bestie, sometimes a clipboard works fine.

📹 Zoom is Somehow Still Winning

  • Zoom raised its yearly profit forecast thanks to people actually loving its AI meeting tools. They're piling on AI agents and companions to keep businesses subscribed.
  • Turns out bolting AI onto your existing product still prints money. Zoom in 2026 era, who had this on their bingo card??

🔍 People Are Bailing on Google Search

  • Users are fed up with Google's AI Overviews and migrating to alternatives like Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and Brave for AI-free searching.
  • Google jammed AI into everything and now might be driving users straight to competitors. Not the search monopoly slipping I-

🧠 Tony Robbins is Now in the AI Therapy Business

  • A new app called The Path raised $14.3 million for AI therapy and coaching, with Tony Robbins joining as co-founder to shape the AI's advice.
  • With a massive therapist shortage, AI bots are stepping in for mental health support. Therapy from a chatbot coached by a motivational speaker - what could go wrong??

📱 India Gets a $114 AI Phone

  • Phone maker HMD is loading a local AI chatbot called Indus onto its new $114 smartphone in India. It speaks 22 local languages.
  • Cheap phones with on-device AI in local languages is how AI actually reaches the next billion users. This is huge.

🏭 AI Now Helps Build the Chips That Run AI

  • Lam Research is embedding AI sensors into the giant machines that manufacture computer chips, spotting errors early for fewer defective wafers.
  • AI making the chips that train the AI that designs the chips. The ouroboros of compute is officially active.

♻️ AI Robots Are Getting Rich Off Your Trash

  • Startups are using AI cameras and robots to sort garbage and pull out valuable aluminum scrap. With aluminum prices soaring, sorting centers are printing money.
  • AI isn't just chatbots and slide decks - it's literally turning trash into treasure. Chaoscore but for recycling.