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John Ternus will officially begin his tenure as Apple's new CEO on September 1. He will reveal Apple's biggest new product in a decade, the first foldable iPhone, less than two weeks later. Ternus oversaw the engineering and product development of the device, which makes him the perfect person to be the face of the new era of the iPhone. The launch will give the new CEO a tailwind in both buzz and revenue while letting Ternus tout a product that reflects his style.
X Money is expected to launch to the public before the end of this month. The banking and payments platform will provide free peer-to-peer transfers, a personalized metal Visa debit card, and an AI concierge that tracks spending and sorts through past transactions. It has some competitive perks, including 3% cash back on eligible purchases and a 6% interest rate on cash savings. X Money still lacks payment licenses in several states.
Tesla's Cybercab has officially entered production at the company's Giga Texas production facility outside of Austin. The Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals. It relies fully on Tesla's advanced vision-only Full Self-Driving system. The start of Cybercab production is a signal that Tesla trusts its progress on Full Self-Driving and that autonomy is near.
Big tech's AI infrastructure buildout depends on a single Dutch company, ASML, which is the world's only supplier of the complex machines needed to make cutting-edge chips at scale. ASML is currently racing to meet the industry-wide surge in demand. It is building new facilities, repurposing existing clean rooms, and working on more advanced machines capable of churning out more chips. It is also hiring more engineers while cutting leadership roles to speed up decision-making. The boom has helped cement ASML's position as Europe's most valuable company.
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The role of the Engineering Manager is shifting. It is moving up an abstraction layer, so managers are delegating more managerial tasks to agents and then synthesizing and selecting where to go deeper. Some managers will do the same work with a bigger scope, but others will shift to more high-impact work. The purely operational manager role is at the most risk of being obsolete. Those who center their role on judgment, relationships, and organizational influence will become more valuable.
Last year, Shopify grew its internship program from roughly 100 interns per year to over 1,000. The company plans to continue the program this year and hire another 1,000 interns. Shopify hires interns to keep the company thinking with fresh eyes and to make sure there are always people questioning the way things are done. The new generation of interns will have grown up with AI - the company wants these types of people to reimagine what it looks like to build with AI.
It's understandable why people use AI. People want to use tools that promise quick, convenient solutions to problems. Many people have jobs only to make money to pay rent and medical expenses. AI is just a symptom of a broken system rather than the cause.
Google plans to invest between $10 billion and $40 billion in Anthropic, depending on whether Anthropic meets certain performance targets. Amazon recently invested $5 billion in Anthropic, with an option to further invest based on performance. Both investments value Anthropic at $350 billion. The investments are aimed at helping close the gap between demand and supply of compute for AI training and inference.
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Model capabilities are catching up, making harnesses less of a requirement.
Civilization-scale technological transformation is extraordinarily rare.
Creating a token usage leaderboard incentivizes more AI usage, which means producing a lot more real-world traces that can be used to train next-generation models better.
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Several recent incidents have caused employees to ask questions in the company's internal Slack - the company responded by removing the conversations.
If Musk does win, the most likely outcome would be a money award well below the headline figure along with targeted governance fixes and guardrails such as independent board seats, mission-protective covenants, and constraints on licensing intellectual property.
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