Michelle Turner leveraged AI to build Here Now Health, a Medicaid-funded mental health platform for foster children, from scratch. Her journey highlights how AI is slashing startup costs and reshaping the U.S. economy, even as the Fed weighs risks of job disruption.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of the company’s equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, letting the public share in AI profits. The plan faces congressional hurdles and competing proposals like Bernie Sanders’ 50% AI stock tax.
A leaked 2024 video shows Microsoft’s experimental Copilot OS, codenamed Aion, which reimagines the desktop around an agentic AI core. The web-based system drops legacy app support, relying on cloud streaming, and may have evolved into Project Solara.
Anthropic is exploring a custom AI chip with Samsung to gain control over computing costs. The early-stage talks could reshape the AI hardware landscape and challenge NVIDIA’s dominance.
Scammers are leveraging real-time deepfake technology to impersonate Dubai’s Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed, known as Fazza, in elaborate romance scams. Victims are left emotionally and financially ruined as AI makes deception more convincing than ever.
A Breakingviews analysis applies René Girard’s mimetic theory to the AI arms race, showing how imitation fuels a destructive rivalry among tech leaders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Mainland investors poured HK$305.5 billion into Hong Kong stocks in the first half of 2026, with SMIC and Zhipu AI among top picks. But a 9.1% Hang Seng Index plunge in June, driven by Fed hawkishness and a lack of AI hardware firms, underscores the market’s structural challenges.
German engine maker Deutz expects its energy division to triple revenue to over €1 billion within five years, capitalizing on AI-driven demand for backup power. Recent acquisitions and a global footprint position the company to serve data centers worldwide.
Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains announced an AI curriculum for all government schools starting August 2026. The move aims to prepare students for evolving job markets, but details on implementation remain sparse.
A market rout in AI and cloud stocks was based on a misreading of Meta’s cloud ambitions, according to SemiAnalysis. The firm says Meta’s data center spending will accelerate, not slow, with 2027 capex set to be ‘shockingly high.’