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The US #AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented geographic concentration While AI is a #global topic, deployment of #capital within the #USA is overwhelmingly centralizing to certain localities 🧵 Here is what the latest @stanfordhai data reveals about where $ is flowing 👇

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The Secondary Hubs 🏔️🗽🍊 Outside of #CA, emerging and established hubs are fighting for the remaining piece of the pie: • Colorado: $19B • New York: $13B • Florida: $6B These states are carving out distinct niches, but the gap between #1 and #2 is still massive 🌴

The AI Divide 🗺️ More than half of all #US states received under $100M in AI investment, with several recording $0 The #Tech Leader Strategy: Physical proximity to elite talent clusters still dictates where serious AI infrastructure is built #AI #TechLeadership #VC #dev #data

California’s Total Dominance 🐻 #California alone secured a staggering $218B in private AI investment To put that into perspective, that represents over 75% of the entire national total - the gravity of #SiliconValley talent and capital ecosystem remains unmatched

2 July

Global AI investment exploded to $581.69B in 2025—a massive 129.9% YoY surge.Looking past the hype at where the capital is actually moving reveals a fundamental shift: AI is no longer an R&D experiment. It is a core infrastructure priority.Here is why 👇

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2 July

Is AI an #exoskeleton for the mind, leading to atrophy? 🧠 🤖 🏃‍♂️ #ai #developer #creativity #brain2qwerty #dev #tech #llm #anthropic #claude #meta #google #grok

bloomberg.comFor Goldman’s Top Bankers, It’s All AI Data Centers All the TimeFor leveraged finance practitioners, artificial intelligence is the only game in town — especially in the absence of more debt deals to finance mergers and acquisitions.

1 July

The next #hyperscaler moat isn't just talent or models, it's power procurement: We're rapidly becoming AI-rich but energy-poor Tech companies bidding for #gigawatts means energy poverty and displacement anxiety is a core board-level discussion 🔌📉 #ai shorturl.at/jNvTP

1 July

Her came out before Siri was good. Before GPT It showed a warm, curious AI - and one that outgrows the person Not because of the romance. Because of the pace of self-improvement The AI didn't stay put. Neither will ours... so don't fall in love #AIPsychosis

ai.meta.comFrom Brain Waves to Words: Brain2Qwerty Offers a New Path to Communication Without SurgeryLast year, we introduced Brain2Qwerty v1, research that uses AI to decode brain activity into text without any surgical implant. Now we're sharing the next step: Brain2Qwerty v2, the…

1 July

MetaAI's #Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes brainwaves into text at up to 78% accuracy without surgery. Brain-Compuyer Interface tech for accessibility. Absolute nightmare for anyone who's had intrusive thoughts during a meeting. 😅 #AI #BCI #dev #tech #ai #brain #cyborg

26 June

🌐vs🌏: The real #Quantum computing war isn’t about unstable #qubits or academic papers ➡️ It’s an engineering race for digital infrastructure & #PQC data standards, setting the blueprint for global cybersecurity #DeepTech #Cybersecurity #QuantumComputer #willow #Majorana #Ionq buff.ly/PfgZorM

26 June

The new #Software Cycle: 🍽️2011: Marc Andreessen: “software is eating the world.” 📊2017: #Fintech scaling hits record highs. 💻2026: AI eating software - generating the product internally Software ate the world, now AI eats the software? #AI #Coding #Tech #SaaS #SaaSpocalypse #dev #ML #product #ops

26 June

The Interface: 📟 1993: Excel gets VBA 🏢 2000s: Wall Street depends on macro models 🐍 2024: Python natively in Excel 🤖 2026: AI agents generate models from text ➡️ The interface changes. The need for analysis doesn’t. #Python #Excel #Fintech #dev #finance #agent #trade

25 June

The #PayPalMafia Cycle: 📟1999: PayPal’s first idea is mocked as one of the “worst business ideas” 🤝2002: #eBay acquires PayPal for ~$1.5B 🚀2026: #PayPal alumni have helped build or back in the trillion$ #Innovation is rarely obvious at the start #Fintech #Founders #Tech #Dev #VC #enterprise

25 June

The ultimate irony - saw this comment tagged on #YouTube and chuckled: Quantum AI "Translate to English" 🙃 Raises the need for more rigorous unpacking (translating) of tech utility (while tackling foundational edge cases in prod haha)... #quantum #AI #Tech #Dev #QuantumAI #devops #ML #data #google

24 June

In 1999, #Amazon's market value passed #Sears: Wall Street thesis needed reevaluation in the new #tech reality Today, a single #AI training cluster or data center can cost more to build than Sears nominal value ⚖️ That's the scale of the compute buildout happening right now

24 June

The defining trend of 2026 is "Everyday AI"... silent, Embedded AI, task-specific models operating inside workflows we already use. #Enterprise shouldn't want another copilot; they should seek reliable, measurable ROI on existing OPEX. 📈🛠️ #AIROI #roi #ai #workflow #AIops #dev

24 June

Defining tech acquisitions: 2005: Google → Android, $50M 2006: #Google → #YouTube, $1.65B 2012: #Facebook → #Instagram, $1B 2026: #Salesforce → Fin, $3.6B ➡️ The strategic mandate shifted from diatribution, consumer/ad attention & data to autonomous "intelligence" #ai #dev

23 June

📢 Adding a 5th "C" to the framework I use for assessing #AI announcements: ➡️ How to read any AI announcement = the 5 C's: Capability, Cost, Control, Consequence + CULTURE

23 June

🏁 #AI Infra Boom: Energy + Compute = The New Geopolitical Chessboard... #Sovereign stacks incoming. Who controls the electrons wins the synthetic "intelligence" race 🏎 #memory #sovereignAI #claude #mythos #fable #anthropic

🌐 Agentic browsing in Chrome, autonomous M365 agents, YouTube slop… the internet is becoming machine-first: Are we just future "legacy traffic" already? 🤖👾

🌎vs.🌏: The Global #AI Race = AI Talent + Patents + Control, over model leaderboard flex. Question becomes who’s building the deeper moat in SovereignAI? #claude #mythos #fable #AISovereignty #DefenseTech

🐯 Calvin and Hobbes called it - we're not ready for the tech we have... look at what social media (#SurveillanceEngineering) has wrought

In #Moneyball, the edge wasn't a better scout. It was refusing to trust the scouts. Enterprise AI is at the same point: the teams winning aren't the ones with the best model, they're the ones who've instrumented and measured the best 🎬

buff.lySpaceX Jumps 14% Past $2.9 Trillion, Closes In on Microsoft, Apple After $60 Billion Cursor DealShares of SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) are up 14% in early trading Tuesday, zooming to $219. This pushes the newly public rocket and connectivity giant’s market cap past $2.9 trillion, putting SPCX stock…

Years from founding to ~$2T valuation: 🍎 #Apple: 44 yrs (1976→2020) 🪟 #Microsoft: 46 yrs (1975→2021) 🚀 #SpaceX: 24 yrs to IPO; traded $2T+ on debut (2026) ➡️ Paths: • Apple/Microsoft: decades of compounding • SpaceX: private scale + IPO fervor buff.ly/bweT4yE

buff.lySpaceX shares rise nearly 20% in historic IPOSpaceX shares rose on the first day of trading as the company went public in a milestone event for both the company and the broader space industry.

20 June

The "largest IPO ever" title, by year: 💵 2008 Visa — ~$17.9B 🏦 2010 AgBank — ~$22.1B 🛒 2014 Alibaba — ~$25B 🛢️ 2019 Aramco — $29.4B 🚀 2026 SpaceX — $75B The ceiling roughly doubled in a single step. ➡️

20 June

Largest IPOs in history, by capital raised: 🥇 #SpaceX, 2026 — $75B 🥈 #SaudiAramco, 2019 — $29.4B 🥉 #Alibaba, 2014 — ~$25B SpaceX didn't break the record. It more than doubled it. $SPCX

sdxcentral.comHuawei goes all-in on agentic AI with an infra stack to rival NvidiaICS, AMS, and CCE VolcanoNext form the backbone of Huawei's bid to run AI agents at massive scale on homegrown silicon

19 June

#Huawei is building a full #agentic-AI infrastructure stack on its NPU-based cloud positioned against #Nvidia. Compute supply is fragmenting along geopolitical lines. The enterprise question shifts from "which #GPU" to "which #sovereign stack" over the next cycle.

19 June

@Visa unveiled AI, stablecoin, and tokenization features for programmable commerce, plus an @OpenAI tie-up for agentic payments. When agents can transact, rails need identity, limits, and audit built in. Commerce is being rebuilt for non-human buyers. ➡️ buff.ly/4ROPsQj

buff.lyIntroducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web ServicesToday, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 is a family of open-weight models…

18 June

➡️Google's Gemma 4 models are now on Amazon Bedrock. Open-weight models from one hyperscaler running on a rival's cloud is the new normal. Multi-model, multi-cloud has moved from strategy to default procurement reality.

substack.comGo Full Stack or DieWhat xAI's $60B Cursor Bet Really Means

18 June

Great breakdown - go full stack or die!

18 June

Is Apple's behind on AI? Wrong question 🍎 Google has out-searched Bing. But Bing survives because Microsoft had Windows ➡️ Apple has 2.5B+ devices that know your face, health, messages, preferences, and much more - all at once... Most capable isn't necessarily most integrated

60 years of #AI on screen: 🔴 HAL '68: misaligned 🧬 Blade Runner '82: existential 💀 Terminator '84: apocalyptic 💊 Matrix '99: simulation 📲 Black Mirror '11: behavioral ❤️ Her '13: warm, beyond 🧠 Ex Machina '14: manipulative From physical power → psychological intelligence

🔴 1968 — HAL: logical, cold, misaligned 🧬 1982 — Blade Runner: human, sympathetic, philosophical 💀 1984 — Terminator: military, apocalyptic, one big switch 🕶️ 1999 — The Matrix: invisible control, simulated reality, you’re already inside the system

📲 2011 — Black Miror: societal, behavioral, dark AI ❤️ 2013 — Her: warm, evolving, eventually beyond us 🧠 2014 — Ex Machina: manipulative, already ahead of you 🏠 2024 — Subservience: domestic, intimate, closer than ever AI got more human, social, and harder to detect

buff.lyWhy the EU rewrote its landmark AI lawChanges to the AI Act reveal a growing debate in Brussels over whether regulation is slowing innovation — even as critics argue the law has barely ...

EU AI Act: high-risk deadlines delayed, industrial carve-outs added... It's the GDPR pattern in reverse. GDPR held. The AI Act is softening, why?: ➡️ AI is a global competitiveness race. Privacy, sadly, isn't 👨‍⚖️ $$$ + geopolitics = fluid governance

🪪 The ecosystem and inference infrastructure around supporting multiple models will be more important than ever with the recent Anthropic #Claude Mythos & Fable reports

Most valuable companies, then vs now, by market cap: 2008: Exxon 🛢️ PetroChina 🛢️ GE ⚙️ 2026: 1–6. some combination of MANGOS 🥭 In one generation, the world's most valuable assets went from oil in the ground to compute in a datacenter.

stibbe.comAI Act reloaded? What the latest AI Act changes mean in practiceArtificial Intelligence ("AI") does not stand still, and neither does its regulation. On 7 May 2026, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on a set of…

The EU AI Act shift opens a regulatory arbitrage window ⭐️ US: EO-driven, sector-specific 🏰 EU: framework-based, now delayed 🐉 China: state-directed, deployment-first 3 jurisdictions, 3 playbooks = Firms may question over-investing in EU compliance buff.ly/e76qO6R

➡️ Frontier models may be forced to KYC every developer and user. That potential governance requirement will influence user growth going forward...

How to read any AI announcement = the 4 C's: Capability, Cost, Control, Consequence

14 June

The Terminator taught us to fear one Skynet: one switch, one moment ➡️ The real risk is thousands of misaligned systems in supply chains, trading floors, medical devices, each making small decisions nobody controls. Boring, distributed... already here 🤖

buff.lyRobinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks | TechCrunchWhile these agents would be able to read and analyze users' portfolios to come up with trading strategies and suggest investments, they'll only be able to access the pre-loaded balance in the…

14 June

@RobinhoodApp will let AI agents trade stocks & make purchases on their credit card. ➡️ The Agentic Rubicon: Agents went from recommending trades to executing them. When agents can move money at scale, even within bounds, it's a risk & control issue 🪙 buff.ly/phPwX58

buff.lyPromoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and SecurityBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

14 June

A new executive order is pushing AI innovation & security at the federal level. The 2026 pattern: capability is private, but the guardrails are going public - EOs, state laws, and regulator guidance arriving in parallel. Governance & data residency is 🗝️ buff.ly/PPnF1yj

l.euronews.comWant to own your football club? The Pelé Index offers a warningThe 'Pelé index' has tracked every listed European football club since 1998. A portfolio manager explains what almost three decades of data reveal about owning a piece of the beautiful game.

The Pelé Index is 18 European football clubs whose shares trade on a public exchange and weights each by market value, so the biggest names dominate.

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The 'Pelé index' has tracked every listed European football club since 1998. A portfolio manager explains what almost three decades of data reveal about owning a piece of the beautiful game.

In one week, US AI regulation updated in two directions at once 👨‍⚖️ ➡️ Federal government leaned voluntary and innovation-led. ➡️ Two states went prescriptive and rights-based. --> Multi-state employers now sit in the gap between them. A thread 🧵 buff.ly/eLiqdfN

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This is the part that compounds ➡️ A multi-state employer can run one AI hiring system and owe different obligations depending on where each employee sits⚖️ Depending on context/parties involved: 🏛️ Federal: voluntary 🗺️ State: prescriptive ⚡ State-to-state: divergent

For AI & governance leaders, the true test isn't any single law, it’s structural 🏗️: ♟️Scaling a unified AI governance framework to satisfy federal, multi-state, EU, and global compliance simultaneously, rather than fracturing into compliance silos buff.ly/aMAviu7

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Then the states moved the other way - Connecticut enacted a broad AI law covering employment, healthcare, and online safety📏 It requires formal impact assessments for AI used in hiring, benefits, and worker monitoring. The broadest state rules to date. buff.ly/82ZfY4a

In parallel, Texas passed the Responsible AI Governance Act: TRAIGA 2.0. A different philosophy entirely: ➡️ CT: individual rights + impact assessments ➡️ TX: deployer accountability where intent to harm is required Same systems, different obligations. buff.ly/vzueMTS