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🗞️In this edition
A Nobel Laureate and a 27-Year Legend Exit Google at Once
LinkedIn Creators Are Making $500K Without Leaving Work
Anthropic Is Done Renting Nvidia's Chips
⚡ YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.
In other AI news –
The Smartest AI Play in 2026 Is a Boring Business
His Engineers Interviewed the Perfect Candidate. It Wasn't Human.
Most AI "Thought Leadership" Is Just Slop
4 must-try AI tools
The two men who built Google's AI both stepped away on the same morning, and the stock dropped the moment it happened. Everywhere else, going independent is how creators break out. On LinkedIn, it's what kills you. And Anthropic just decided that buying chips from everyone wasn't enough.
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One chased AGI, the other walked out after 27 years.
On LinkedIn, quitting is what kills the paycheck.
This week it decided that wasn't enough and started building its own.
⚡️YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.
🧠 The smartest people in AI just reversed their timelines overnight. Even Karpathy flipped. This breaks down what they saw that changed everything.
→ Watch it🔭 Jensen Huang just explained the future of AI agents better in 49 minutes than most courses do in a year. Systems thinking, he says, is the new coding.
→ See the talk🧷 Six AI products launched last week with the same quiet move: none of them ask you to open a new app. This is the smartest read yet on where AI is actually heading.
→ See the trend🎨 Recraft V4 does the one thing Midjourney and DALL-E still can't: generate real vectors you can drop straight into Figma, Illustrator, or print. A quiet edge for anyone building a brand.
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The Smartest AI Play in 2026 Is a Boring Business – The cost of intelligence just fell 280x, and everyone raced to build AI companies. The people quietly winning are doing the opposite. What they understand about this moment is the whole game.
His Engineers Interviewed the Perfect Candidate. It Wasn't Human. – Arena's engineers interviewed candidates who breezed through every technical round, then vanished the moment they tried to hire them. This says a lot about the future of hiring.
Most AI "Thought Leadership" Is Just Slop – The internet is buried in confident AI takes from people who've built nothing. The ones who actually win do the opposite of posting opinions. What replaces thought leadership is almost embarrassingly simple.
Devin AI — An AI engineer that opens the PR, fixes the bug, and ships it.
Leonardo.ai — Production-ready visuals from models you actually control.
6Sense — Know which accounts are in-market before they fill out a form.
Krisp — The layer that makes every call sound like a quiet studio.
The people who built the giants are walking out to build what's next, the rules that made you visible on one platform make you invisible on another, and even the labs everyone depends on are racing to stop depending on anyone. The lesson underneath all three is the same. Owning your foundation beats renting someone else's.
The ones who internalize that now won't be at anyone's mercy later.
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