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The heartbeat of AI. Daily clips from leaders, people to follow, and tools that matter.

THE LEADERS

Sundar Pichai: America Must Lead on AI

Sundar Pichai - CEO, Google

Google CEO Sundar Pichai makes the case for American AI leadership in this sharp congressional appearance. With Google I/O 2026 dropping today, this is the context behind every Gemini announcement.

Elon Musk and the $1.25 Trillion SpaceX-xAI Merger | Bloomberg Technology

Elon Musk - CEO, xAI / Tesla / SpaceX

Bloomberg breaks down the proposed combination of SpaceX and xAI in what would be the largest corporate deal in history. Meanwhile Musk is in a San Francisco courtroom fighting OpenAI. Normal week.

Jensen Huang: Leading in the Age of AI | Milken Global Conference 2026

Jensen Huang - CEO, NVIDIA

Jensen Huang at Milken on why the age of agentic AI is not a future event, it is already here. NVIDIA is the infrastructure everyone is building on and Huang is its loudest evangelist.

WHO TO FOLLOW

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Sundar Pichai

CEO of Google firing every gun at Google I/O 2026 today. Gemini 4.0. XR glasses. AI agents. The biggest AI keynote of the year.

2

Sam Altman

Fighting Elon in court, merging ChatGPT into a superapp, and somehow still the most-discussed person in AI. Never a dull week.

3

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA is printing money and Jensen is still the most quotable CEO alive. CMU commencement speech is making the rounds this week.

4

Demis Hassabis

DeepMind is about to have its biggest moment yet. With Google I/O happening today, every Gemini announcement traces back to him.

5

Dario Amodei

Anthropic is quietly racing toward superintelligence while everyone watches the Musk trial. He says powerful AI could arrive by end of 2026.

6

Andrej Karpathy

His YC AI Startup School talk on the shift from vibe coding to agentic engineering is the most-shared AI clip this month.

7

Satya Nadella

Agent 365 and E7 just launched. Microsoft is positioning AI as a new operating system for work, not just a feature.

8

Elon Musk

SpaceX and xAI in a $1.25 trillion merger proposal while he fights Sam Altman in court. Maximum chaos, maximum relevance.

9

Yann LeCun

Still insisting LLMs are a dead end and still being proven both right and wrong simultaneously. The contrarian we need.

10

Alexandr Wang

Scale AI is the silent infrastructure play winning regardless of which frontier model dominates. Wang is the picks-and-shovels guy.

TOOLS OF THE DAY

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Genspark

Research

AI-native search engine that generates comprehensive research summaries instead of just returning links. This week it launched Genspark Autopilot, a multi-agent mode that independently completes research tasks end-to-end without prompting.

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T-Rex Label

Developer Tools

AI-powered vision data labeling tool trending hard on Product Hunt this week. Upload your images, describe what you need labeled, and it auto-annotates at a speed no human team can match. Built for computer vision teams who are bottlenecked on training data.

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SurfBuddy

Productivity

Just launched on Product Hunt: an AI agent that lives in your browser and executes cross-workspace tasks without you switching apps. Think Zapier but it actually reads and acts on what is on your screen in real time.