OpenAI took $10B from a 19-firm Wall Street consortium. Anthropic is closing $1.5B from Blackstone, Goldman, and Hellman & Friedman. Same rooms, different portfolios. The week AI’s go-to-market stopped being SaaS and started being private equity.
Quick Hits Musk takes the stand in the OpenAI trial: “If we make it OK to loot…” — Jury selection wrapped Monday; Musk testified Tuesday in the $134B suit to return OpenAI’s assets to the nonprofit and oust Altman. Live coverage tracked every hour. The case will set the legal template for what counts as…
Watch & Listen First Jensen Huang on Dwarkesh: The $4 Trillion Company · Listen on Spotify -> Huang on TPU competition, why Anthropic drove “100% of TPU growth”, and why Nvidia’s supply-chain moat is harder to copy than any benchmark. The best single piece of context for everything else below. Simon Willison on Lenny’s Podcast…
Quick Hits Chery sells humanoid robot to consumers for $42,000: The Chinese automaker ships the first mass-market humanoid. A car company is now a robotics company. The price will halve by next year. Claude Code Routines launches: Hit 686 points on Hacker News. Automate repetitive dev workflows wit
Apple handed the next decade to a silicon engineer. Bezos hit $38B in five months. Brin came out of retirement to code. When the founders stop delegating AI, the stakes have passed the point of no return.
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.
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Watch & Listen First Jensen Huang on Dwarkesh: The $4 Trillion Company · Listen on Spotify -> Huang on TPU competition, why Anthropic drove “100% of TPU growth”, and why Nvidia’s supply-chain moat is harder to copy than any benchmark. The best single piece of context for everything else below. Simon Willison on Lenny’s Podcast…
Quick Hits Chery sells humanoid robot to consumers for $42,000: The Chinese automaker ships the first mass-market humanoid. A car company is now a robotics company. The price will halve by next year. Claude Code Routines launches: Hit 686 points on Hacker News. Automate repetitive dev workflows wit
