Bezos returns from space to build AI
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๐ Jeff Bezos Got Bored of Being Rich, Now He's Co-CEO Again
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Bezos is coming out of retirement to co-lead Project Prometheus - a $6.2 billion AI startup targeting aerospace and manufacturing. Because apparently yachts get boring.
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When the world's third-richest man decides to actually work again, you know AI's either the future or the greatest grift ever invented. (source)
๐ค Google Drops $40B on Texas (Everything's Bigger, Including the Power Bills)
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Google's building $40 billion worth of data centers in Texas through 2027. That's enough GPUs to simulate the heat death of the universe twice.
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Tech giants are literally terraforming America into one giant server farm. Your next neighbor might be a cooling tower. (source)
๐ฐ Warren Buffett Finally Discovers the Internet, Buys $4.9B of Google
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Berkshire Hathaway just dropped $4.9 billion on Alphabet stock. The Oracle of Omaha finally realized AI exists and it prints money.
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When a 94-year-old value investor starts buying tech stocks, we're either at peak bubble or he knows something we don't. (source)
๐ Nvidia Earnings Drop Wednesday (Your 401k's Final Boss)
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Wall Street expects Nvidia to post a 53.8% earnings jump. If they miss, your portfolio becomes a meme.
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The entire AI bubble's structural integrity depends on one chip company not fumbling a PowerPoint presentation. (source)
โก We're Spending More on Data Centers Than Oil Exploration Now
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Humanity now invests more in AI server farms than finding new oil. The grid is screaming.
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We're speedrunning an energy crisis to teach computers how to write bad poetry. Solar panels or societal collapse - pick one. (source)
๐ญ Taiwan Gets a $500M "AI Factory" (Not the Dystopian Kind... Yet)
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GMI Cloud is building a massive data center in Taiwan with Nvidia Blackwell chips, worth $1 billion in contracts by 2026.
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Countries are now measuring GDP in FLOPS. Taiwan's becoming the Switzerland of compute power. (source)
๐ค Saudi Crown Prince Wants AI Tech (Oil Money โ Silicon Dreams)
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MBS is in the U.S. negotiating for access to advanced AI chips and nuclear energy. Normal Tuesday stuff.
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When petrostates start pivoting to AI, you know fossil fuels are so last century. Or they're planning something we should worry about. (source)
๐ฏ๐ต Japan's Sakana AI Raises $135M to Build Culturally Appropriate Robots
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Tokyo startup Sakana AI hit a $2.65 billion valuation building Japanese-specific AI models that actually understand context and politeness.
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"Sovereign AI" is the new nationalism. Every country wants its own ChatGPT that speaks the local dialect of corporate buzzwords. (source)
๐ Tim Cook Succession Planning Intensifies (AI Catch-Up Required)
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Apple's hardware VP John Ternus is reportedly next in line for CEO. Cook might peace out as early as next year.
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Apple's so behind in AI, they're still calling Siri "intelligent." New leadership might finally admit the iPhone needs actual innovation. (source)
๐ฐ๏ธ Amazon's Satellite Internet Drops "Affordable" from Marketing
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Project Kuiper rebranded to "Leo" and quietly stopped pretending to care about poor people. Now targeting enterprise contracts.
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Another tech promise dies. "Connecting the underserved" becomes "extracting maximum value from Fortune 500s." (source)
๐ณ Buy Now, Pay Later Users Can't Pay Later (42% Default Rate)
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BNPL services are exploding - people are financing groceries. 42% are missing payments. This "phantom debt" isn't even tracked by credit bureaus.
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We've gamified poverty. The next financial crisis will be sponsored by Klarna and delivered in four easy installments. (source)
๐ฆ Danish Payment Startup FlatPay Hits $1B Valuation (Humans Still Required)
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FlatPay reached unicorn status by... talking to customers in person. Revolutionary concept in 2025.
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While everyone's chasing AGI, some Danish guys got rich by remembering that small businesses still exist and hate complicated fee structures. (source)
Until tomorrow (unless the grid collapses),
Team Galaxy.ai