If they were planning to IPO this year then why would they give employees an option to sell their shares now and why would employees take it? 🤔

Either employees don’t think they’ll IPO soon or think it’s overvalued.

That said it makes financial sense for employees to take some money off the table.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/openai-reportedly-completed-a-7-billion-employee-tender-offer/

Nvidia has made deals with six of the biggest Wall Street firms to set aside $500B to give loans to companies that want to buy Nvidia GPUs.

This isn’t a circular deal but it’s definitely interesting to see how Nvidia needs to continually find money for its customers to buy its products.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/nvidia-wall-street-finance-ai-infrastructure

In Q2 of 2022, Twitter made $1.08B in ad revenue. Thanks to the SpaceX IPO, we learn that number was $367M in Q2 of this year. He destroyed 70% of Twitter’s ads business in under 4 years.

Luckily for the investors who funded the acquisition, he bundled X into SpaceX/xAI and they made money anyway.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacexs-earnings-show-elon-wiped-out-two-thirds-of-twitters-ad-business/

"You got some MF who's made over $251B being a United States citizen that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the United States of America, and giving us a f**** Heil Hitler along the way" - Hunter Biden on Elon Musk

I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable.

Vibe coding is essentially replacing “no code” platforms and arguably the recent sale of Airtable is an indication of how that segment is compressing.

Those users have no need for source code, it’s simply unnecessary.

Capital One closed Trump’s bank accounts in 2021 for money laundering. We are at this point in America today because our two tier justice system has turned a blind eye to Trump’s crimes for decades.

MAGA elevated him but he wouldn’t be there to elevate if our justice system worked.

Robinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto.

This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.

Hank Green’s use of AI has been raised as an example of hypocrisy given Hank Green has been critical of the industry.

However I think what’s more notable is being busted because the prompt leaked into the script. It shows how easy it is to stop reading the content you produce with AI before sharing it with others.

That’s the real betrayal and is disrespectful to your audience.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/youtuber-hank-green-says-his-ai-usage-is-not-healthy/

Claude Code is like airplane WiFi. The first few times I encountered it, I was like “This is amazing and it changes everything.”

After a few months I realized although it’s quite useful, it also kind of sucks. Now all I see are the ways it could be better but fails to live up to its promise.

An AI generated tweet about how it’s important to avoid using AI generated Slack messages to ask your coworkers for help. 🙃

I’m surprised the solution proposed wasn’t to use ChatGPT to create an autoresponder to answer their questions.

That way no one has to talk to anyone else ever again at work.

I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this?

Quite the loophole. I wonder what other crimes are legal as long as you get an LLM to do it?

Thinking about driving my kid to school and instead of talking to him about his upcoming football game, having ChatGPT make a podcast about his football schedule instead.