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Jensen Huang wants you to hate him like other tech bros (opens the original)
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DR1 In our 'Innovations like Reese's DOUBLE Chocolate Cups, Hershey's Choco Balls, and Hershey's Choco Tubes' headline of the week. Hershey CEO: America’s 250 years of innovation and why we expanded our innovation pipeline 50% in one year *************** In our 'If I'm wrong, your corpse has full permission to sue my corpse' headline of the week. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Guarantees '0% Chance' AI Will End the World Amid Warnings About Humanity's Extinction *************** In our 'Ok, you got a pe
We told you so, oligarchs, and Jensen pumped gas once (opens the original)
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Story of the Week (DR): Data Rules! At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose The latest gender battle: Nobody asks why having more men is better ICE Wiped Thousands of People From Its Database Vaccine Expert Warns US’s 4 Reported Measles Deaths Are Likely a Vast Undercount Pentagon Quietly Adds to US Death Toll From Iran War After Reports of Coverup $6 trillion a year in unpaid labor isn’t counted in GDP. Its absence from official stats distorts how we see growth, living standard
Paul Atkins hates you (a Shareholder Primacy crossover) (opens the original)
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Last week, SEC Chair Paul Atkins signed his name solo to the SEC’s statement proposing rescission of rule 14a-8, a rule which allowed shareholders to file non-binding proposals with companies during the annual meeting. The concept has been around a little while. Like, English joint stock companies 17th century little while. But 90+ years of SEC case law and 400ish years of shareholder precedent isn’t really justification for Paul, who claims that shareholder proposals are not EXPLICITLY listed a
AI hypocrites, EPA and SEC repeals, media skips democracy, and nepo directors (opens the original)
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Story of the Week (DR): Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development Anthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,’ and grants outside evaluators permanent access . Here’s what Amodei is suggesting: Each US AI company grants ongoing access to embedded third-party evaluators to check compliance with safety commitments, report incidents, ensure new AI models are not misaligned. All companies in democratic countries building frontier AI models to establish common
Tim Cook’s old new job, light socket crypto, permadirectors at Enphase, and 13G nanny state (opens the original)
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Story of the Week (DR): Tim Cook Could Still Out-Earn Apple's New CEO John Ternus Under a Special Pay Arrangement Apple set John Ternus's fiscal 2027 salary at $3M and his annual equity award at $55M, giving him a calculated fiscal 2027 salary-and-equity package of $58M. Cook will receive a $2M salary and a $45M annual equity award as executive chair, giving him a calculated salary-and-equity package of $47M. Almost all of the value in both packages comes through Apple shares rather than salary.
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