Ai Forward+

Covering the Business of Ai
by @Archiex__

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@levelsio Absolutely not.
Output becomes ubiquitous and cheaper to produce, but the value was never in the production cost to begin with.

It’s in the idea and execution in a way that connects, unlocks, or solves a problem.

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💥BREAKING: Big Tech AI spend to hit $1.4 TRILLION by 2028 - Goldman Sachs

- 2025: $405B
- 2026: $800B
- 2027: $1.2T
- 2028: $1.4T

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🚨 Bots will outnumber humans online 1,000 to 1 within five years, says Cloudflare CEO

Humans become a rounding error 😳

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@GordonGekko Almost…

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JUST IN: Google, Apple and Microsoft to stop AI training on sites that opt out, in agreement with Cloudflare.

20% of the web.

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💥BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Trump hosted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private White House dinner for their first ever one on one meeting.

The backdrop:
- Pentagon blacklists Anthropic as a "supply-chain risk"
- Amodei calls to slow AI down
- Trump calls the AI backlash a "hoax" by Democrats

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No-brainer for SpaceX-Ai, Anthropic, or OpenAi to buy Snapchat.

500m users for $9b market cap.
They could prob acquire for $15b.

Rounding error for trillion dollar cos and they get 500m users, mostly under 35.

If cursor is worth 60b…

[abhi @_abhixyz]

Snapchat
Founded: 15 years ago
Users: ~493M daily
Revenue: $6.5B/yr
Valuation: $9B

Instinct
Founded: 5 months ago
Users: ~100,000
Revenue: $0
Valuation: $10B

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@johnternus 👀

[ANIA @theaiagencysv]

🇸🇻 ANNOUNCEMENT | ANIA is proud to welcome Ginger Luckey Gaetz (@gingerlgaetz) as a Strategic Advisor to the agency.

In this advisory role, Ginger will provide high-level leadership across ANIA's full portfolio. She will focus on expanding our international network, bridging the agency with top-tier US ecosystems, enterprise partners, and elite university pipelines to foster high-impact talent and startup creation.

Her mandate aligns with our core mission: accelerating El Salvador’s trajectory to become a premier global destination for applied AI, measured by the speed and scale of real-world results.

Bringing her on board ensures El Salvador remains at the frontier of global tech innovation.

Welcome to the team, Ginger. Let’s build! 🌋🤖🇸🇻

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JUST IN: A new Ai model from China's Zhipu Ai matches the performance of Anthropic's Claude Mythos.

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- $1.3 bn ARR (+74% YoY)
- $287 bn annualised transaction volume (+120% YoY)
- 676,000+ businesses served
- 85+ licenses globally

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BREAKING: Airwallex just raised $320M at an $11 BILLION valuation, up from $8b just 6 months ago.

@AirWallex is pivoting to "autonomous finance" and Ai agents to make payments.

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JUST IN: OpenAi to delay its IPO until next year, blaming Elon Musk's Space𝕏.

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AMAZON HIRING 11,000 INTERNS AND GRADS THIS YEAR DUE TO Ai BOOM - AWS CEO Matt Garman

When Job Apocalypse? 🤔

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JUST IN: 🇹🇼 Ai industry has turned Taiwan's Hsinchu city from a rice field into its richest city - Bloomberg

🔹 Rice fields replaced by TSMC factories, luxury high-rises & top malls
🔹 Birthrates soaring while rest of Taiwan declines
🔹 Salaries & wealth well above national average

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JUST IN: Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5 BILLION SPAC deal
🔹 $600M gross proceeds
🔹 Already deployed at Amazon warehouses, Toyota
🔹 Backed by Amazon, Nvidia & SoftBank
🔹 Oregon factory scales to 10,000 units per year
🔹 Labor shortages + re-shoring driving demand

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JUST IN: Elon Musk’s Space𝕏 Buys Cursor AI For $60 Billion

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JUST IN: Apple just launched its new Artificial Intelligence platform at WWDC 2026.

🍏 New architecture built with Google's Gemini AI
🍏 Models run on-device and Apple's cloud servers
🍏 Designed for deeper reasoning and complex tasks

Apple's biggest Ai leap yet. 👀

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Apple launches next-generation AI platform developed with Google.

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JUST IN: Elon Musk’s SpaceX signs $30 BILLION deal with Google to provide AI computing power.