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Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) is pleading with his colleagues to reject his censure in a 22-page letter arguing that the House Ethics Committee made an "extraordinary leap" in determining that his behavior amounted to sexual harassment. Why it matters: Edwards' aggressive defense of his conduct — allegations that ultimately caused him to drop his reelection bid — comes as he tries to avoid one of th…
Lawyers for Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook have submitted their case for why she cannot legally be fired, as President Trump seeks new avenues for dismissing the Biden appointee for cause. The big picture: After the Supreme Court ruled against Trump's attempt to fire Cook last year over allegations that she claimed two different properties as her primary residence in mortgage documents, the Wh…
To paraphrase Justin Timberlake in his iconic turn in the 2010 film "The Social Network," a trillion dollars isn't cool. You know what is? $3 trillion. The big picture: That's roughly how much money seven Big Tech companies, including Google, Microsoft and Nvidia, have committed to spending on AI-related infrastructure in off-balance-sheet commitments, according to a new analysis from Morgan Stanl…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will hold fireside chats with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang next week during the U.S.-led G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Why it matters: The Sept. 1–2 summit, co-hosted by the Commerce Department and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is aimed at fostering global innovation in AI and other techn…
Data: Source: S&P Capital IQ Pro, company releases; Note: Nvidia's fiscal year runs ahead of the calendar. The quarter ended July 2026 is its Q2 fiscal 2027.; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios AI behemoth Nvidia reported blowout earnings Wednesday — exceeding Wall Street's expectations — and even jaded investors who had grown a bit immune to the company's stratospheric growth over the past year seemed to li…
The nation's old guard of Black leaders is still a key force for Democrats, but this year's primaries have revealed the rising influence of Black Gen Z voters who aren't swayed by their elders' seniority, civil rights credentials or endorsements. Driving the news: Michigan's Democratic primary for Senate offered a snapshot of the growing generational divide among Black voters in particular. U.S. R…
Wildfires demand action on radically different timelines: during the crisis, before the next fire season and over the coming decades. Why it matters: Climate change is worsening the underlying risk, making everything from evacuation plans to forest management and cutting emissions part of the response. Driving the news: America's northwestern corner is having a record-breaking wildfire year, and t…
Meta's landmark social media settlement marks the latest milestone in a decade-long unwinding of Big Tech's once-unfettered freedom to operate. Why it matters: The AI industry is watching closely . Its historic expansion, already fraught with job risks and public anxiety, depends on building thousands of power-hungry data centers in communities where opposition is rising fast. State of play: "The…
A military judge on Wednesday set a June 2028 trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The big picture: Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, a military commissions judge, set the tentative trial date for June 5, 2028 — some 20 years after Mohammed and his co-defendants were first arraigned in 2008 and 27 years after the 9/1…
Nvidia projected 70% revenue growth in its next fiscal year, sending its stock up in after-hours trading, while the company defended its decision to provide capital solutions to its customers. Why it matters: The stock is widely considered a bellwether for the health of the broader AI economy, but lately it has been trailing the broader semiconductor sector in market gains. Zoom in: In its latest…
👋 Hey there, I’m Lenny. Each week, I share deeply researched product, growth, and career advice. For more: Lenny’s Jobs | Lenny’s Podcast | Lennybot | How I AI | Become an AI-Native Builder and my other favorite AI/PM courses Subscribe now P.S. Get a full free year of Cursor, Notion, Replit, Lovable, Wispr Flow, Linear, ElevenLabs, Factory, PostHog, Granola, Brain.fm, Waking Up, and more, by beco…
Grok Bot + Grok 4.6—what’s great (and what’s still hype) Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Bolt.new —Turn your idea into a real product Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira In this solo episode, Claire tests Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and Grok 4.6 to figure out what’s genuinely useful and what’s still mostly hype. She shares the Grok Bot feature that immed…
Ryan Carson is a five-time founder and the current solo founder of Untangle, a B2B SaaS platform for family law firms. Before Untangle, he co-founded Treehouse, an online coding education platform, and has spent the better part of two decades building and leading tech companies. He’s active on X, where he shares his solo founder journey in real time, including what he actually spends on AI tools e…
Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterprise sales, and for that reason, this is her third visit to the podcast. In our first conversation we went deep on founder-led sales; in our second we mapped the $1M–$10M playbook. This time we do something I’ve never seen on another podcast: wa…
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This week I’m doing a solo breakdown of everything xAI and Cursor have shipped recently, including Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and the Grok 4.6 model. I set up five Grok Bots, ran Grok 4.6 through my Claire Weighted Index against GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Opus 5, and spent time actually using Origin as a GitHub replacement. Here’s what’s worth your attention, what’s overhyped, and where I’m p…
👋 Hey there, I’m Lenny. Each week, I share deeply researched product, growth, and career advice. For more: Lenny’s Jobs | Lenny’s Podcast | How I AI | Lennybot | Become an AI-Native Builder and some other favorite AI/PM courses Subscribe now P.S. Get a full free year of Cursor, Notion, Replit, Lovable, Factory, Wispr Flow, Linear, ElevenLabs, PostHog, Brain.fm, Waking Up, and more, by becoming an…
How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Merge —Connective infrastructure for production AI Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand she’s building without an engineering team. In this episo…
Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches and ending with runway photos, CAD files for 3D printing, and a live Stripe-connected pre-order site—no engineers required. A former product leader, she brings an operator’s rigor to her creative process: her “fashion prompt” is a detailed spec cov…
Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI, he was at Artifact, the AI-powered news app built by the founders of Instagram. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Instagram, where he worked on products including Reels. Ian is one of the most consequential designers…
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Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: WorkOS —Make your app Enterprise Ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Claire built an AI agent that reviews pull requests, scores their risk, auto-approves the safest ones, and sends anything questionable to Slack. In this episode, she breaks down how she built the entire…