Anthropic calculates its $100B revenue run rate from four weeks of API data, not contracts

In B2B advertising sales, pitching ROI does not close seven-figure deals; buyers are driven by trust and budget-safety logic ('spend it with me, it's safe') rather than ROI calculations.

FASB will reclassify stablecoins as cash equivalents on corporate balance sheets only if they are redeemable directly with the issuer and backed by cash or T-bills, a rule that excludes Tether.

Neuroscience researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have noted it is easier to do neuroscience on AI models than on biological brains, suggesting AI models are now the most productive substrate for neuroscience research.

Cognition is not computation; neural networks on computers are fundamentally different from biological neurons.

Corporate income as a share of gross domestic income is at an all-time high, comparable to dot-com era extremes in 1999.

The SEC/CFTC crypto proposal is a 'nothing burger' because it is not legislation and can be reversed by a future administration.

The only remaining barrier to creating interactive content is the creator's taste.

The US must keep real rates significantly negative to avoid a debt death spiral, and current Treasury buyback actions are a down payment toward that goal.

Self-doubt can be used as a path to great creative work rather than something to eliminate.

The common response to AI leverage, asking how many fewer people are needed to execute the original plan, is the wrong conclusion; the right conclusion is to ask how much more can be built with the same or more high-agency people.

Consumers do not evaluate live shopping as a marketplace or category; they only care about whether they will enjoy the experience.