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💸 Trump wants you to own AI

Editorial Team
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🇺🇸 Trump Wants to Cut You In on the AI Gold Rush

  • President Trump is floating ideas to give Americans a share of AI profits - like a public wealth fund or having companies pay taxes in stock. OpenAI and Anthropic are already eyeing "digital dividends."
  • AI is minting trillions, and this could completely reshape how Big Tech gets taxed. Universal basic AI dividend?? Bestie we're in uncharted territory.

🌍 The World Is Speedrunning Around US AI Bans

  • Strict US export rules are forcing Siemens and Renault to blend US, European, and Chinese models so they don't rely on one provider. Meanwhile Japan's Sakana AI launched Fugu, mashing smaller models together to dodge export bans entirely.
  • Lock the door and people build a window. US limits are pushing everyone else to get creative/resilient/petty about not depending on American tech.

🚀 SpaceX Realized Renting GPUs Is Easier Than Rockets

  • SpaceX just signed a $6.3 BILLION deal to rent Nvidia compute to Reflection AI. This piles onto its Colossus data centers, already cashing fat monthly checks from Anthropic and Google.
  • Elon figured out the real money isn't winning the AI race - it's being the landlord who charges everyone rent regardless of who wins. We love to see it.

💾 Micron and Anthropic Shake on a $965B Handshake

  • Memory chip giant Micron signed a major deal to supply storage and memory for Anthropic's data centers - and tossed cash into its $65 billion round, valuing the lab at a staggering $965 BILLION.
  • AI models are getting THICC, and securing enough memory chips is now just as important as the processors. Sir, that's almost a trillion dollars.

📱 Qualcomm Drops $4B to Escape Phone Jail

  • Smartphone chip king Qualcomm is in late-stage talks to buy AI chip startup Modular for ~$4 billion - a wild jump from Modular's $1.6 billion value just nine months ago.
  • Qualcomm wants OUT of the smartphone market and INTO the data center AI pie. The way that startup nearly tripled in value while you were on vacation.

💰 Groq Got Gutted by Nvidia and Came Back Swinging

  • After Nvidia paid $20 billion to license Groq's tech and poach its best people, AI chipmaker Groq just raised another $650 million and pivoted hard into its "neocloud" - 13 data centers chewing through trillions of AI tokens.
  • They took your tech AND your talent and you... rebuilt?? Demand for fast AI inference is so insane even gutted startups thrive. Chaoscore.

⛽ Gas Stations Sued for Letting AI Pick Your Pump Price

  • California drivers are suing BP, 7-Eleven, and Walmart, claiming they used an AI tool called Kalibrate to coordinate price hikes - costing drivers an extra $134 million a year.
  • This is algorithmic antitrust, baby. As companies let AI set prices, "the algorithm did it" is becoming the new courtroom drama. Not the gas pump price-fixing 👏

🔁 AI Is Now Just Robots Bossing Other Robots Around

  • The AI coding world is ditching simple prompts for recursive loops - AI agents endlessly prompting other agents to find bugs and submit code updates automatically, no human breaks needed.
  • Could solve massive problems OR burn through expensive compute tokens with zero chill. It's giving "leave the program running and pray to the billing department."

🎬 Google and A24 Try to Make AI Hollywood Doesn't Hate

  • Google is investing $75 million into indie studio A24, handing them direct access to DeepMind's researchers. But instead of full AI movies, A24 wants AI-powered storyboards and workflows that actually help filmmakers.
  • Hollywood is at war over AI, and this deal tries the middle ground - AI as a tool, not a replacement for artists. Lowkey the sane take we needed??

🇮🇩 Indonesia Goes All-In on AI Government

  • Indonesia plans to run major programs on AI - including a $15 billion free meal drive for students - designing menus, tracking kitchen safety, and monitoring health data to boost GDP by 12% by 2030.
  • Huge cost savings on paper, but critics warn the country lacks the infrastructure and skills to pull it off. Ambitious. Wildly ambitious.

🗣️ Alexa Learns Hindi to Win 600 Million People

  • Amazon is inviting users in India to beta test a Hindi-language Alexa+, its new generative AI assistant, aiming at 600 million Hindi speakers who lean hard on voice commands.
  • Winning the AI race isn't just an English thing - mastering local languages is the key to dominating massive markets like India. Speak the language, take the market.

🛡️ AI Is Both Hacking You and Fixing the Holes

  • Cyber agencies warn AI is speeding up hacking threats, so OpenAI launched a GPT-5.5-Cyber model to patch flaws. Also: the SKILL Act proposes $5,000 tax credits for AI training, Baseten hit $13B, and Nvidia revealed 100% liquid-cooled Rubin servers.
  • As AI gets smarter AND scarier, the industry is racing to beef up defenses, train workers, and build greener data centers all at once. It's like... a lot.