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Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual dividends to every U.…
Elon Musk admitted he has 'fallen prey' to flashy credentials when hiring, emphasizing that conversation quality matters more than résumés. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he now advises hiring based on interactions rather…
A developer argues that AI is killing the SaaS model by enabling anyone to build custom software quickly, making paid subscriptions for simple tools unnecessary. The developer suggests that single-purpose SaaS products w…
Indie makers and creators are experiencing burnout and despair over the belief that AI eliminates competitive moats, but the author argues that code is no longer a moat and that building a true product with depth, integr…
A developer warns that AI devtool founders must map the trust boundary before selling connector-heavy products. The hard part is not the integration itself but explaining what the system reads, stores, remembers, and sen…
Microsoft promoted Jacob Andreou to Executive Vice President of Copilot, consolidating consumer and commercial AI teams under his leadership. The former Snap executive, who demonstrated Copilot Tasks by autonomously orde…
A B2B SaaS startup cut its LLM inference costs by 97% by switching from GPT-4o to cheaper alternatives like DeepSeek V4 Flash, reducing a $14,200 monthly OpenAI bill to an estimated $355. The developer standardized on th…
Insiders from buzzy startups including Perplexity, Kalshi, Replit, Harvey, and Lovable shared tips for job seekers, advising them to join user communities, do deep research, flex creativity, show startup culture fit, and…
Microsoft executive Jacob Andreou, 33, successfully ordered a McDonald's cheeseburger using the company's AI tool Copilot Tasks, demonstrating the product's capabilities. CEO Satya Nadella has entrusted Andreou to lead C…
The Federal Trade Commission cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by former SpaceX engineers that makes optical transceivers for AI data centers. The startup, which raised $50 million…
Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting nearly 300 agentic AI-related roles and offering one of the first Level 6 AI Engineering apprenticeships by a UK bank. Over 400,000 AI Academy courses have been taken since January, wit…
Six former Google employees told Business Insider they left the company due to FOMO during the AI boom, uncertain job security from layoffs, and the desire for greater equity upside at startups or AI companies like OpenA…
Jason Lemkin, known as the 'Godfather of SaaS,' said he will only invest in companies that require employees to work in the office six days a week, arguing that remote work leads to failure. He echoed Flexport CEO Ryan P…
Apple has lobbied the Trump administration for permission to buy memory chips from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which is blacklisted by the Pentagon, as the AI boom drives up semiconductor pr…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said every company should build its own AI model tailored to its business, warning that relying on a few frontier models poses long-term economic risks. He emphasized that firms cannot outsour…
The Orient Express brand, owned by Accor and LVMH, launched its first giant yacht targeting ultra-wealthy clients, aiming to capitalize on a surge of new billionaires from the AI boom. Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin said the …
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate crossed $47 billion as of early May 2026, tracking toward $50 billion by late June, driven by over 1,000 enterprises each spending more than $1 million annually on Claude. The grow…
Steve Eisman, the investor famous for shorting the housing market before the 2008 crash, warns that investors are buying the wrong AI stocks. He criticizes SpaceX's valuation at over 100 times revenue, comparing its reve…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight AI model that performs within one percentage point of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks while costing roughly one-fifth as much, according to CNBC. The company positions the…
A developer tracked API costs across 184 models over 18 months, spending $340,000 in credits. The data reveals that direct provider pricing can be 40x cheaper than GPT-4o, but operational friction and compliance costs of…