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OpenAI publicly disavowed it. Not equity. Not approved

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What we’ll cover today:
🤯 OpenAI shuts down Robinhood’s token stunt
🎮 Google hints at AI-generated game worlds
📉 Publishers are bleeding traffic to bots
💸 Trump’s bill could flood chipmakers with cash
📺 101 AI life hacks in one killer video

Robinhood launched tokens tied to OpenAI and SpaceX
OpenAI publicly disavowed it. Not equity. Not approved
Tokens are linked to an SPV, not direct shares
Investors get exposure to exposure, not ownership
Robinhood framed it as “tokenized investing”
OpenAI distanced itself fast. No involvement, no endorsement
Raises trust concerns for private market tokenization
Should startups be worried about how their equity is packaged and sold without consent? |
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Demis Hassabis and Logan Kilpatrick teased gaming potential
Veo 3 generates video with audio but no interaction yet
World models simulate real environments with agent input
Google already has Genie, Gemini, and a world modeling team
A shift toward simulation could turn Veo into a game engine
Signals long-term ambition to build interactive AI systems
Google AI Overviews pushed no-click searches to 69%
News traffic dropped from 2.3B to 1.7B
ChatGPT referrals grew 25x but still not enough
Stocks, sports, and finance dominate AI news prompts
NYT traffic growth slowed after OpenAI lawsuit
SEO strategies are becoming less effective
Publishers need new models to survive the shift
Proposed bill raises chip tax credits from 25% to 35%
Intel, TSMC, and Micron likely to benefit
Incentivizes domestic chip manufacturing
Follows recent AI chip export restrictions to China
Part of broader economic and tech policy alignment
Is US domestic chip production finally becoming a competitive advantage? |

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Thanks to AI, cheating has gone up exponentially.
- candidates routinely cheat on interviews
- lawyers write AI slop
- students cheat and learn nothing
- programmers check in bad AI-generated code
- salespeople spew garbage in cold emailsOver time, these people are going to
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
11:59 PM • Jul 2, 2025
If you care about money or power, stay close to AI, because for the foreseeable future this will be the big source of change in both.
— Paul Graham (@paulg)
9:53 AM • Jul 1, 2025
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