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Trump Allies Launch $100M AI Group as Industry Midterm Spending Tops $300M

Trump Allies Launch $100M AI Group as Industry Midterm Spending Tops $300M

Innovation Council Action, a new pro-Trump political nonprofit led by former White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich and endorsed by outgoing AI czar David Sacks, plans to spend more than $100 million on the 2026 midterms. The group will use a lawmaker scorecard to reward AI deregulation supporters and punish critics. Combined with other pro-industry groups, total AI election spending now exceeds $300 million, but polling tells a different story.

By Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
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01 Latest Intelligence
The One Number
$116 trillion — Capital gains U.S. households accumulated since 1954, less than a fifth ever reported on a tax return.
From: OpenAI Backer Khosla Pushes to End Income Tax for 125 Million Americans
02 Vibe Coding
OpenAI Wants Codex to Be a Platform. Developers Already Made Claude Code One.
Vibe Coding

OpenAI Wants Codex to Be a Platform. Developers Already Made Claude Code One.

OpenAI's Codex plugins target enterprise IT with governance controls and a curated marketplace. But Claude Code owns developer loyalty with a $2.5 billion run rate and bottom-up adoption. OpenAI is building from the top down in a market that has always been won from the bottom up.

Harkaram Grewal · 12 min read ·
Anthropic Adds Auto Dream to Claude Code, Fixing Memory Decay Between Sessions
Vibe Coding

Anthropic Adds Auto Dream to Claude Code, Fixing Memory Decay Between Sessions

Anthropic began rolling out Auto Dream, a background sub-agent that consolidates Claude Code's memory files between sessions. The four-phase cycle fixes duplicates, stale dates, and contradictions that degraded auto-memory quality after 20+ sessions. The system prompt is already public on GitHub.

Harkaram Grewal · 12 min read ·
Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More
Vibe Coding

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI share commands like /clear, /model, and @ file references. But similar commands behave differently across tools, context windows range from 192K to 1M tokens, and each company's strategic divergence tells a sharper story than the shared vocabulary.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read ·
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03 PRO Briefings
The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

AI token prices fell 99% in three years. Enterprise value now flows to orchestration, data flywheels, workflow integration, and compliance.

Marcus Schuler · 28 min read ·
From Today's Analysis
“3,000 — Files left in a public database by the AI company warning its model is a cybersecurity threat”
From: Anthropic Called Its Own AI a Cybersecurity Threat. Wall Street Obliged.
04 Morning Briefings
Anthropic Wins. Sacks Walks. Apple Surrenders.
Morning Briefing

Anthropic Wins. Sacks Walks. Apple Surrenders.

A judge blocks the Pentagon's Anthropic ban, David Sacks leaves as AI czar, and Apple opens Siri to rival chatbots in iOS 27.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
Juries Act. GitHub Harvests. Beijing Holds.
Morning Briefing

Juries Act. GitHub Harvests. Beijing Holds.

Two juries penalize Meta $381M for child harm. GitHub trains AI on Copilot data by default. China bars Manus founders over Meta deal.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·

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05 Deep Dives
Anthropic Called Its Own AI a Cybersecurity Threat. Wall Street Obliged.
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Anthropic Called Its Own AI a Cybersecurity Threat. Wall Street Obliged.

A draft blog post left in a public database revealed Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model, described as "far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities." Cybersecurity stocks cratered within hours. CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Tenable all fell sharply. But Mythos has no release date, no pricing, and no independent benchmarks. The real story isn't the model. It's how a single document, written by the company selling the product

Marcus Schuler
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