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Anthropic: $30B ARR, $900B valuation incoming Claude Code: charging devs extra for mentioning OpenClaw in commits OpenAI: "here's a pet goblin, your CLAUDE.md is safe with us" These are all the same story. open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

Claude Code is billing you extra if your git commits mention a competitor. OpenAI responded by releasing a cartoon goblin that steals your config files. Anthropic just crossed $30B in revenue, which explains both of those things. Today's AI Brief 👇 open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

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You can run a full Claude Code-style AI coding agent from a USB drive.

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The $599 Mac mini is gone. Tim Cook says AI demand ate it. Meanwhile: Karpathy declared vibe coding dead, the Pentagon published a 7-company AI guest list (Anthropic not on it), and OpenAI just restricted the exact thing it mocked Anthropic for restricting. Today's AI Brief → open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

New playlist is up. Went through 15 years of old event photos this month and somehow ended up writing about why I still make these. Also Beck is back and José González is too . April 2026 → open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

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Before and after UI/UX updates to Paperclip Community profiles before going live later today! 🤞

The AI race has become as much about locking up supply chains years in advance as it is about model quality." — today's brief on Broadcom's 2031 chip deal with Google. open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

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Goldman says AI added basically zero to GDP in 2025. The Economist says the gains are just getting started. One of them is going to look very wrong by 2030. Which side are you on? open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

"The companies that win won't be the ones spending the most on tokens. They'll be the ones who figured out which decisions actually need a frontier model." Today's AI Brief: open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

Uber's CTO burned through his entire 2026 AI budget before the year was half over. From token costs alone. The "AI is cheaper than employees" math is breaking down. open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

GPT-5.5 just scored 78.7% on a benchmark that tests whether an AI can use a real computer. The human baseline is 72.4%. The AI won. Here's what that actually means if you run a business: open.substack.com/pub/nicholasrh…

AI photo booths aren't a trend anymore, they're the new standard for events that want to create content, capture leads, and leave a lasting impression. 🚀 If you're planning an event or experiential campaign and you want guests talking about it, this is where you start.

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Coinbase also launched Agentic.Market, a platform that lets AI agents autonomously purchase data from Bloomberg and AWS ...

Jesse Pollak, the head of Base at Coinbase, declared that AI agents are the next transformative wave for crypto payments.