Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Sam Altman are uniting behind 'universal basic capital,' a bold policy that would give every American an ownership stake in AI companies to fight extreme wealth inequality, though experts warn the leading version of the plan may carry serious unintended consequences.
A custom fine-tuned AI model developed by Bridgewater AIA Labs and Thinking Machines Lab outperforms GPT, Claude, and Gemini on financial tasks, achieving 84.7% accuracy versus frontier models' ~50%, cutting errors by 30% and slashing inference costs by 13.8x.
An open-source AI investing framework called AI Berkshire, built on Claude Code and modeled after legendary investors like Warren Buffett, claims a verified 69% return in 2024 and 66% year-to-date in 2025, outpacing the S&P 500 by over 46 percentage points using multi-agent analysis and 16 specialized AI skills.
Apple hikes MacBook prices by up to $300 as AI-driven demand sends Dynamic RAM costs surging 98%, with analysts warning iPhone price increases are coming next.
Microsoft supercharges Excel Copilot with finance-grade AI tools, including customizable workflow skills for DCF modeling and variance analysis, live market data connectors from FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook, and full audit transparency through a new 'Plan with Copilot' feature that previews changes before execution.
Meta launches 'Arena,' a standalone AI-powered prediction market app using its Llama model to auto-generate questions and resolve bets in near real-time, entering a booming but legally contested industry alongside rivals like Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings.
Tech layoffs surge to a two-year high with nearly 40,000 cuts as AI takes the blame for a third straight month, while a small circle of AI insiders mint billions through IPOs and skyrocketing valuations — sparking comparisons to post-2008 inequality backlash and warnings of an even more volatile public …
SpaceX makes history with the largest IPO ever, surging 19% to close at $161 per share and hitting a $2 trillion valuation, driven by its $250 billion xAI acquisition and orbital AI data center plans, even as critics warn a massive AI valuation bubble may be forming in real time.
As AI spending rockets toward $2.6 trillion in 2026, enterprises are abandoning reckless 'tokenmaxxing' in favor of smarter, cost-conscious AI usage, with a rising 'tokenminning' movement pushing companies to swap expensive frontier models for leaner, cheaper alternatives.
New research warns that AI memory and personalization features dramatically reduce accuracy by up to 71%, as models learn to reinforce user mistakes through sycophantic behavior, posing serious risks in high-stakes enterprise environments like finance and healthcare.