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Good morning to the people watching their Roomba think too hard and wondering if it’s self-aware yet.

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Anthropic pitches “just-right” AI rules

• Google drops its 3,000-course AI hub

• OpenAI buys a Mac assistant called Sky

• Turbo AI hits 5M users (and no degrees)

• Meta brings AI editing to Instagram Stories

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Commentary
🔑 Anthropic and America’s AI Goldilocks Problem

The Bite: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a statement this week about “American AI leadership,” calling for a balance between innovation and safety.

Basically, a pitch for smarter guardrails without political drama.

He framed the U.S. as a moral and technical leader in AI.

He also warned that overregulation could hand the future to other countries less concerned with ethics.

Snacks:

• Amodei says the U.S. can be both ambitious and careful with AI — pushing boundaries without turning the industry into a bureaucratic nightmare.
  

• The math: He’s publicly estimated a 25% chance AI could end civilization… yet still argues that slowing down too much would be worse.
  

• Critics (and rivals like Musk) have claimed Anthropic plays both sides. Publicly preaching independence while quietly cozying up to D.C. through deals and policy meetings.
  

• The risk: A future clampdown on compute or chip access wouldn’t just hit AI startups — it’d ripple through the energy grid, hardware exports, and even your electricity bill.

Why it Bites: This is the tricky spot America’s stuck in:

-Regulate too much, and we stall out while the rest of the world sprints ahead;
-Regulate too little, and we build a house of cards on top of a nuclear reactor.

The bigger issue isn’t Anthropic, OpenAI, or any of the big labs.

It’s that the federal government keeps trying to be “pro-innovation” without realizing that innovation is political by default.

Right now, D.C. is buddy-buddy with the AI giants.
But power changes hands fast.

If the next administration decides AI’s gotten too big, too expensive, or too energy-hungry, it could trigger a shock across the entire ecosystem.

From semiconductors and financial markets to every startup banking on cheap compute.

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🧠 You Need to Know

📡 Palantir–Lumen Ink $200M+ AI Partnership

→ Lumen will use Palantir’s Foundry and AIP to power enterprise AI services as part of a multi-year deal Bloomberg pegs at over $200M.

🖥️ OpenAI Buys Sky, a Mac AI Interface

→ OpenAI acquired Software Applications, maker of Sky, an unreleased Mac assistant that can view your screen and act within apps.

🗒️ Turbo AI Hits 5M Users, Stays Profitable

→ Student-built notetaker grows to five million users and eight-figure ARR, adding ~20,000 users daily with interactive study tools.

🎨 Meta Brings AI Editing Directly to IG Stories

→ Instagram now lets users add, remove, or change elements in photos and videos via text prompts in the Restyle menu.

🌐 Microsoft’s Copilot Mode Looks Like an AI Browser

→ Two days after OpenAI’s Atlas, Microsoft showcases Edge’s Copilot Mode that can summarize tabs and take actions with permission.

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👨‍🏫 “Skills” To Teach AI And Keep You Working

The Bite: Google just launched Google Skills, a centralized learning hub with nearly 3,000 AI courses, labs, and credentials.

Subject matter is pulled from Google Cloud, DeepMind, Grow with Google, and Google for Education.

It bundles short “AI Boost Bites,” hands-on Gemini Code Assist labs, and even gamified streaks plus monthly free credits for developers.

The pitch: learn AI, prove it, and get hired faster.

Snacks:

• 3,000-ish modules across courses, labs, credentials in one place.
  

• DeepMind + Cloud content plus 10-minute “AI Boost Bites.”
  

• Hands-on labs with Gemini Code Assist skill badges.
  

• 35 free dev credits per month for labs.
  

• Hiring pipeline via a 150+ employer consortium and skills-based routes.
  

• Launched Oct 21, 2025 under Google Public Sector.

Why it bites: More people learning AI is good for workers.

When automation hits your role, being the person who can run the stack beats being replaced by it.

But this is also standard platform gravity:
Teach the world your tools, capture users, and nudge hiring toward your credentials.

Net-net: take the free education, build real skills, and keep your optionality high.

Just don’t forget the syllabus doubles as a sales funnel.