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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit30m ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history31m ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal32m ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford35m ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges42m ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 202650m ago Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports1h ago Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month1h ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion1h ago Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)1h ago Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters1h ago Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B1h ago Salesforce Unveils Six-Capability Trusted AI Harness for Enterprises1h ago US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google2h ago

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AI and the Profits Boom

Hacker NewsPublished 7 days ago

US corporate profits soared by $401 billion in Q2 2026, reaching a record $4.3 trillion and a 19.4% profit margin, driven by AI infrastructure spending, tax cuts, and wage suppression. Despite rising profits, workers' real wages declined due to inflation outpacing pay growth.

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