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Zinedine Zidane has officially been hired as France's next coach following the departure of Didier Deschamps, per @FabrizioRomano.
Deschamps will manage his last game in the third place match of the #FIFAWorldCup and Zidane will takeover from there.
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Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind.
Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect.
Available now in beta.
AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself.
There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave.
In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive.
Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch.
And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease.
Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify.
The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own.
But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.
The future of work is everyone having AI employees with their own accounts.
Its own email. Its own Slack login. Its own seat on the team. With Claude Tag etc, the agent is someone you tag and not just something you prompt.
You delegate to it the way you'd delegate to a coworker. It writes the code, handles the inbox, builds the deck, even browses X on its own login for updates. It has it's own history, so you can hold it accountable when it messes up or does an incredible job.
And the strangest part is how fast it feels kinda normal.
Week 1 it's odd to thank a bot in Slack. Week 3 you're annoyed when it's slow to reply, the same way you'd be annoyed at a coworker. The account makes your brain file it under "person," and your expectations follow.
This is what AI-native actually looks like.
Second order effects of this shift:
1. Companies will start "hiring" agents the way they hire people, with job descriptions, onboarding docs, and performance reviews, and someone's whole job becomes managing a team that never sleeps.
2. The agent that's been at your company for two years becomes more valuable than any new hire, because it holds every decision, every thread, every relationship in one login that never quits.
3. IT and security have a nightmare on their hands, because every agent account is a new door into your company, and nobody's figured out who's responsible when an agent gets phished or goes rogue.
4. A black market forms for trained agent accounts, where a fully onboarded agent with months of company context sells for real money, the same way aged social accounts do today.
5. The org chart fills with names that aren't people, and one day you realize half your "team" is agents and you genuinely can't imagine running the company without them.
6. Insane amount of vertical startup opportunities. My partner @boringmarketer just launched a Slack agent "employee" for marketing related tasks. 100% bootstrapped.
Probably 1000+ vertical $1M ARR "employee" in Slack startup opportunities.
TLDR; Slack tag is cool
But give one agent its own account this week. Watch how fast your brain stops treating it like software.
That's the whole shift, and you can feel it in about 3 days.
Stanford University researchers analyzed 4 million job applications and found that 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants applied to jobs where AI hiring systems worked against their racial group.
The researchers estimate that if those candidates had been recommended at the same rate as the most-favored group, roughly 40,000 additional applications would have advanced to the next stage of hiring.
Anthropic is hiring an SEO Lead for $300k/year. this is interesting because:
a) they aren't hiring a "GEO" specialist. good GEO is good SEO, and they include the answer engine / AI overviews as part of THIS job description
b) it specifically calls outs TECHNICAL SEO as the main component. And the ability to work cross functionally with engineering teams to optimize the web properties.
marketing is a technical role in the future, good GEO is good SEO, and good technical marketers are in HIGH DEMAND.
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Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.
Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures.
What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform:
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