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The 10-year Treasury is back around 5%, making the cost of capital impossible to ignore. Higher yields raise the hurdle rate for everything from venture capital to AI infrastructure, even as strong growth and massive investment help keep those yields elevated. The result is a strange cycle where the forces driving the tech boom may also be making it harder to finance.
A researcher walks out of Anthropic. Dario Amodei publishes an essay about slowing down. Altman and Musk agree. David Sacks does not buy the altruism. Somewhere underneath the posts is a quieter argument about whether superintelligent agents belong on the public internet at all.
Oura’s S-1 makes a strong case that wearables are becoming much more than hardware businesses. The ring gets customers in the door, but the value is really in subscriptions, years of health data, and the software that turns that data into something useful. Four months after our Fitbit piece, Oura looks like a much stronger counterexample to the idea that standalone wearable companies cannot compete with Apple and Google.
Who’s talking about SpaceXAI’s new agent, who’s actually using it, and what the token bill looks like once the thing stays on overnight.
Open-source AI gives startups, developers and businesses an alternative to relying entirely on a small group of closed model providers. Restricting access to open models could reduce competition, increase costs and limit how companies build and deploy AI, while doing little to stop the technology from advancing elsewhere. That matters even more as the model itself becomes just one component of a larger system that increasingly determines how useful an AI product actually is.
What a $16 Billion Fire Sale Did and Did Not Prove About AI Equities. Prices and filings current as of the close on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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