Happy Tuesday.
The tech founders are leaving California.
Peter Thiel — $30B
Elon Musk — $850B
Larry Page — $270B
Sergey Brin — $240B
Mark Zuckerberg — $230B
~$1.6 trillion in net worth out — and counting. Ouch.
Enjoy today’s news.
MrBeast buys fintech app Step, extending his brand beyond media and consumer products into financial services for teens.
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OpenAI starts rolling out ads in ChatGPT to a subset of free and Go plan users in the US, with ads labeled as sponsored and separate from AI responses.
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It is also rolling out GPT-5.3-Codex in Cursor and GitHub, starting with a small set of API customers and planning to expand API access over the next few weeks.
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Snapchat adds arrival notifications, letting users automatically alert selected friends when they reach their destination.
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YouTube TV rolls out several new plans across sports, news, entertainment, and family content, priced lower than the main YouTube TV plan.
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Discord will roll out global age verification next month, requiring users to prove they’re adults to access age-restricted content and features.
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Lyft launches teen accounts, letting minors hail rides without an adult present, with features like PIN verification, audio recording, and real-time tracking for parents.
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Mark Zuckerberg buys a newly completed waterfront mansion in Miami, joining other California billionaires moving to Florida.
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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire to build a developer platform for agent–human collaboration.
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Safety lead Mrinank Sharma leaves Anthropic, saying it became increasingly hard to let personal and organizational values guide decisions with growing internal and external pressures.
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Harvard Business Review: AI isn’t reducing work hours but making work more intense, driving task expansion, more multitasking, and blurrier lines between work and non-work.
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Researchers used competing AI systems to reconstruct the rules of a mysterious Roman-era board game by analyzing wear patterns on an ancient stone board.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. A developer used AI to port the entire 1989 SimCity game in just four days—without reading a single line of code 😲
