**Prince

In March 2026, OpenAI raised at $852B. Everyone called it the peak. Two months later: Anthropic is raising $30B at $900B+. ARR: $44B. Up 80x year-over-year. They are now worth more than OpenAI. Amazon took 27 years to reach $900B. Anthropic did it in ~36 months.

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on September 1. His successor: John Ternus, the guy who builds iPhone hardware. Not an AI researcher. Not a software lead. A hardware engineer. The next chapter of Apple starts with someone whose biggest win was making the phone thinner.

SpaceX is reportedly in talks to buy Cursor for $60 BILLION. Let that sink in. - Meta bought Instagram for $1B - Meta bought WhatsApp for $19B (450M users) - Cursor: a code editor 3x the price of WhatsApp. For a text editor.

Cloudflare just posted its best revenue quarter EVER: $639.8M, +34% YoY. Then fired 1,100 people the same week. CEO's explanation: "AI makes employees 10x-100x more productive." Translation: We need fewer of you. Stock went up. Every tech worker should read this twice.

SpaceX is going public June 12. Target valuation: $1.75 TRILLION. $1.75T exceeds South Korea's entire GDP. A rocket company founded 24 years ago is about to become the largest IPO in human history. This is not a drill.

Meta is now scanning your bone structure to guess your age. If it thinks you look under 13, your account is deleted. No warning. No opt-out. Meta paid $375M for ALLOWING kids on the platform. The fix is an AI guessing by your bones. Your skeleton is now your terms of service.

SpaceX is going public on June 12. Target valuation: $1.75 TRILLION. Largest IPO in history. By a lot. → Prev. record IPO raise: $29.4B (Saudi Aramco) → SpaceX target raise: $75B → $1.75T = more than South Korea's entire GDP This does not happen twice in a lifetime.

Cloudflare just fired 1,100 people. Not because the company is struggling. Best quarter ever: $639.8M revenue, +34% YoY. CEO's reason: "AI made employees 2x, 10x, even 100x more productive." They need 1 of you now. Record revenue. Record cuts. Stock goes up. Nobody is safe.

Anthropic built an AI so good at hacking they refuse to release it. → Found a 27-year-old OpenBSD vulnerability → Patched 271 Firefox bugs in one session They named it Mythos. Too dangerous to ship. The most dangerous AI ever built is the one no one is allowed to use.

Elon Musk just killed xAI. One man now controls: → The world's largest rocket company → Global satellite internet (Starlink) → A supercomputer with 220,000 GPUs → The AI running on top of all of it → Twitter Nobody is talking about how concentrated this is.

@Overpowerfeed Acquisition doesn’t equal “data laundering.” In AI, dev tools are bought for distribution, revenue, and compute advantage not because someone needs to scrape your repo.

@PrinceBuildsAI the "indie dev to openAI acquisition" pipeline is the most efficient data laundering operation in silicon valley history. they don't even have to scrape github anymore, you're literally just paying $20 a month to type your proprietary code directly into their training server.

SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60,000,000,000. WhatsApp sold for $19B. Instagram sold for $1B. Cursor -- a code editor -- sold for 3x WhatsApp. Every developer who switched to Cursor to escape Big Tech now works inside a Musk product. You can't make this up.

Anthropic just locked in SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center: ~300MW, ~220k+ GPU equivalent. One AI lab now controls a whole city's worth of compute. Startups don't lose on ideas. They lose on electricity contracts. Follow @PrinceBuildsAI - we track where the GPUs go.

Cerebras is IPOing at ~$48.8B on just $510M revenue. That's ~96x sales. A profitable SaaS founder with $500M ARR would kill for that multiple. Public markets are saying one thing: compute > everything. Smash follow on @PrinceBuildsAI - we track who's actually getting rich.

Meta cutting ~8,000 jobs. Microsoft offering buyouts to ~8,750 US workers. 23,000 people reorganized to pay for GPU clusters. The systems you helped build now compete with your salary for budget. If you work in tech, follow @PrinceBuildsAI - nobody else will say this out loud.

A 17-year-old with ZERO coding background used ChatGPT to breach 7,000,000 user accounts. Another stole 195M government records. Just prompts. AI democratized offense before it democratized defense. Follow @PrinceBuildsAI so you don't read this in the post-mortem.

Cursor just pulled off a WhatsApp-level exit... for a CODE EDITOR. SpaceX buying Cursor for ~$60B. 3x what Meta paid for WhatsApp. Devs who fled VS Code for privacy just landed inside a rocket company's data center. Follow @PrinceBuildsAI for tech before it hits CNBC.

SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60 billion. Instagram sold for $1B. WhatsApp for $19B. A CODE EDITOR is worth $60B. Devs switched to Cursor to escape Big Tech. The escape hatch leads straight to Elon Musk. (Acquisition option -- closes end of 2026)

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on September 1. His replacement: John Ternus, Apple's hardware engineering head. He inherits: Siri that needed Google's help Vision Pro that didn't sell A $4 trillion company behind in AI Apple's answer to an AI crisis is a hardware guy.

This week in AI: A 17-year-old with NO coding skills used a $20 ChatGPT sub to breach 7 million accounts. One person using Claude + ChatGPT stole 195 million government records. One laptop. $20/month. Your threat model is already obsolete.

Apple spent 15 years and tens of billions building Siri. iOS 27 will run Google Gemini instead. 1.3 billion iPhones. All answered by Google. Apple outsourced its brain to its biggest competitor. And most users will never know it changed.