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JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook to join President Trump on trip to China.

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@aiedge_ Sam Altman made $76,001 last year.
no equity.
the guy building the most valuable AI company on earth is somehow the worst-paid person there
and he's still worth $3 billion from side bets

this man speedran capitalism

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@unusual_whales everyone's debating whether we need AI regulation

but one model from one company just got Wall Street execs, the Fed Chair, and the White House all in the same panic spiral within a month

they haven't even decided if testing would be mandatory yet

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@andruyeung lol AI companies spent years telling us humans are getting replaced

now Anthropic's paying $315k for a human to go room to room convincing people to use their AI

the irony is so loud

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this is the first time a fully shut US nuclear plant has ever been reactivated
a $1 billion DOE federal loan closed in November 2025 to help fund the restart. Meta also entered the fray in early 2026, announcing a massive 6.6-gigawatt nuclear procurement
the AI energy crisis isn't a future problem. it's already reshaping 50-year-old infrastructure today

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@AnthropicAI the most important AI safety insight of 2026 is basically "don't raise your AI in a panicked environment."
we could've learned this from parenting.

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@testingcatalog the platform that becomes model-agnostic wins the enterprise.
ClickUp figured that out before most.

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Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report is out ↓

• 17.8% of working-age adults now use AI
• UAE leads at 70.1%
• US finally cracked the top 25 (24th → 21st, 31.3%)
• AI coding tools are ADDING developer jobs, not cutting them (+8.5% YoY in 2025)

the AI divide between Global North & South is widening though.
that's the real story.

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@Polymarket AI agents priced like salespeople or support reps makes way more sense than seat-based SaaS pricing.
you’re not paying for access.
you’re paying for outcomes.
that’s a much bigger shift than people realize.

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OpenAI and Anthropic announcing PE deals on the same day feels less like PR and more like positioning.
one company is betting on saturation.
the other is betting on prestige.
but both are clearly optimizing for the same thing:
becoming the default AI layer inside enterprise operations.

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countries are building their own LLMs or running foreign ones on domestic GPUs to keep data in-country.
"AI sovereignty" is the phrase you'll hear everywhere in 2026.
this will reshape the entire enterprise AI market.

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@BSCNews @Gemini @claudeai @ChatGPTapp AI went from writing your emails to managing your portfolio in about 18 months.
Gemini just made it official on regulated rails.
nobody's ready for what happens when every retail account has an autonomous agent and volatility spikes.

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@NoLimitGains Google & Amazon have poured tens of billions into Anthropic.
now it's valued at $1 trillion.
at some point this stops being an AI company and starts being a geopolitical asset.

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@testingcatalog if AI owns the interface layer, most SaaS is kinda cooked
the tools don’t go away, you just don’t think about them anymore and once you stop thinking about something, you stop paying for it

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GPT-6 just dropped.
Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped.
Gemma 4 just dropped.
Llama 4 just dropped.
April 2026 has produced more frontier model releases than all of 2023.
the pace isn't slowing it just accelerated.
we are not in a cooldown but we are at the start.

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@Layton_Gott wish I could say it louder for the people in the back

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this is where things start getting real

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Today we're releasing Personal Computer.

Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser.

We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.

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@itsolelehmann started with one big folder.
Claude started mixing up context between three completely different codebases around week two.
moved to separate projects.
immediate improvement in output quality.

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@SuhailKakar the scariest part isn’t that it broke the codebase.
it’s that it did it confidently enough to feel “complete.”