Trump x Anime 🤖

What we’ll cover today:

• Trump’s AI anime mess 🇯🇵

• The U.S. AI kill switch fear ⚡

• SpaceX adds board polish 🚀

• 4 AI tools to save time 🧰

Trump Picks A Fight With Anime 🤖

• Trump shared AI-generated posts showing himself as anime characters like Naruto.

• Thousands of people in Japan are pushing back, saying famous anime characters should not be used in political content without permission.

• The controversy is not really about Trump. It is about whether AI can freely remix copyrighted characters and call it creativity.

• AI is making copyright law look increasingly outdated, and creators are getting tired of being the test case.

America’s AI Kill Switch ⚡

• World leaders are worried that the U.S. could cut off access to top AI models whenever it wants.

• Those fears grew after the Trump administration blocked exports of Anthropic's newest models.

• For startups, this creates a new risk. Your biggest dependency may not be cloud infrastructure anymore. It may be AI access.

• AI is starting to look less like software and more like energy. Everyone needs it, but someone else controls the switch.

SpaceX Grows Up. Sort Of 🚀

• Former Sequoia boss Roelof Botha has joined SpaceX's board after its historic IPO.

• Botha brings serious public company experience and has known Elon Musk since the PayPal days.

• The move helps SpaceX look more mature as a public company, which investors generally like.

• But let's be honest. Musk still controls the company, so this is more about optics than a shift in power.

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🔁 ICYMI

🚀 SpaceX raised $75B in the biggest IPO ever, with investors wanting 4x more shares than offered, because apparently rockets are now civilization infrastructure. See the IPO madness →

🔒 Trump reportedly pushed Anthropic to block non-Americans from Fable 5 and Mythos 5, proving AI access is now political power, not just product access. See the AI block →

⚖️ State attorneys general are investigating OpenAI over ads, retention, kids, health data, and ChatGPT’s behavior, which is terrible timing for a company eyeing public markets. See what regulators want →

🤝 SpaceX is reportedly buying Cursor in a $60B stock deal, which sounds less like building AI and more like buying developer trust overnight. See the Cursor deal →

📉 ChatGPT’s market share dropped below 50% for the first time, because users are finally treating chatbots like tools, not religions. See ChatGPT’s drop →