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Sam Altman released a 13-page policy paper that reads like a New Deal pitch for the AI era: robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day workweek. Broadcom and Google locked in a multi-gigawatt compute deal that puts real numbers behind the AI infrastructure arms race. SpaceX is pitching what would be the biggest IPO ever, and Meta is going open-source with its next frontier models. Let's get to work.
The Headlines
1. Sam Altman Thinks You Deserve a Four-Day Week
OpenAI dropped a 13-page policy paper that proposes a public wealth fund, a robot tax, higher capital gains taxes, and incentives for a four-day workweek with no pay cut. The pitch: as AI replaces labor, shift the tax base from paychecks to corporate profits and capital gains, then redistribute the upside to every American. It's the clearest signal yet that Big AI is trying to write the rules before Washington does. (Yahoo Finance)
2. Broadcom Locked Up 3.5 Gigawatts of AI Compute
Broadcom signed an expanded deal to manufacture Google's next-gen TPU chips through 2031 and separately opened up 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity to Anthropic starting in 2027. Anthropic's annual revenue run rate now tops $30 billion, up from $9 billion at year-end 2025, with over 1,000 enterprise customers spending $1M+ annually on Claude. The deal signals that the AI compute race is no longer NVIDIA-only: custom silicon partnerships are becoming the real infrastructure play. (CNBC)
3. Meta Is Open-Sourcing Its Next Frontier Models
Meta is building two proprietary frontier models internally: an LLM codenamed Avocado and a multimedia generator called Mango, both expected to ship this year. The twist: Meta plans to release open-source versions derived from each, though they'll be stripped of some capabilities for safety reasons. It's the first major release under Alexandr Wang, the Scale AI founder Meta brought in to overhaul its AI efforts. (Axios)
4. SpaceX Pitching the Largest IPO in History
SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion, up from $1.75 trillion just two weeks ago. The company plans to raise roughly $75 billion in new capital, which would crush Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record as the largest IPO ever. SpaceX filed confidential paperwork with the SEC and is pitching investors ahead of meetings in the coming weeks. (Bloomberg)
5. Apple Is Taking the App Store War to the Supreme Court
Apple is asking the Supreme Court to review its long-running App Store fight with Epic Games after a lower court ruled that its 27% commission on external payments effectively defeated the purpose of allowing them. The appeals court upheld that Apple isn't a monopoly but said the fee structure was anti-competitive. If the Supreme Court takes the case, the ruling could redefine what platforms can charge developers for access to their ecosystems. (TechCrunch)
6. Remote Job Postings Surged 20% Last Quarter
Fully remote job postings jumped 20% quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2026, according to FlexJobs' Remote Work Index. 65% Of those roles target experienced professionals, with managers and senior managers making up another 29%. The fastest-growing remote categories are sales, business development, and project management. If you're building a team, the talent pool for senior remote operators is deeper than it's been in two years. (AllWork.Space)
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