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Musk vs OpenAI: Billionaire Energy Activated
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AI Daybreak: Your Daily Dose of Silicon Beach Madness
By Tommy Vee
Happy Monday, fellas! Today’s headlines are straight chaos: a Reddit post turned into a $120M startup, Elon Musk suing OpenAI like it owes him lunch money, and Ring making your doorbell creepily smart. AI isn’t just tech anymore… it’s ambition, ego, and convenience all rolled into one messy, unstoppable wave. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride.
Reddit to $120M ARR: The Runpod Playbook
Runpod is the kind of startup story VCs pretend they love but never actually fund at the beginning. Two guys sweating in New Jersey basements, repurposing crypto mining GPUs, realizing AI infrastructure sucked, and fixing it instead of tweeting about it. They tossed the product on Reddit like hey try this thing, and boom, developers showed up, money followed, and now they are sitting at $120 million in ARR. No glossy pitch deck fairy dust, just builders scratching their own itch and accidentally printing cash. Moral of the story: while everyone else was writing thought leadership threads, these guys were wiring GPUs and letting Reddit do the marketing. Sometimes the internet rewards competence. Sometimes it just mugs you. This time, competence won.
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Musk vs OpenAI: Billionaire Energy Activated
Elon Musk is worth roughly $700 billion and still woke up one morning and chose violence, aiming a $134 billion lawsuit at OpenAI like it owes him lunch money. He says the company betrayed its nonprofit soul, turned into a profit-hungry AI monster, and now he wants a refund with interest, plus Microsoft dragged into the blast radius for good measure. OpenAI calls it harassment, which is legal code for “this guy will not stop,” while Musk frames it as a moral crusade despite having more money than some countries’ GDPs. The trial is coming, popcorn is optional, and the irony is rich enough to train a language model on. When you already own rockets, cars, satellites, and a social network, apparently the final boss is the company you helped create.
3 Tricks Billionaires Use to Help Protect Wealth Through Shaky Markets
“If I hear bad news about the stock market one more time, I’m gonna be sick.”
We get it. Investors are rattled, costs keep rising, and the world keeps getting weirder.
So, who’s better at handling their money than the uber-rich?
Have 3 long-term investing tips UBS (Swiss bank) shared for shaky times:
Hold extra cash for expenses and buying cheap if markets fall.
Diversify outside stocks (Gold, real estate, etc.).
Hold a slice of wealth in alternatives that tend not to move with equities.
The catch? Most alternatives aren’t open to everyday investors
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Sounds crazy, but it’s real. One way to help reclaim control this week:
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From Doorbell to Digital Brain: Ring’s Next Act
Ring’s founder wants your doorbell to stop being a snitch with a camera and start acting like an AI brain for your house, watching, listening, remembering, and politely telling you what just happened while quietly knowing everything. The pitch is an intelligent assistant era where Ring doesn’t just spot motion, it identifies faces, finds lost dogs, detects fires, and basically narrates your neighborhood like it’s a nature documentary starring your porch. Jamie Siminoff says it’s about reducing mental load, but critics hear surveillance with better PR, especially when the cameras already have a complicated history with cops and data sharing. Convenience is winning the argument, though, because people love smart tech right up until it knows their name. The future of home security isn’t alarms and alerts anymore, it’s an AI that knows who’s at your door before you do and doesn’t blink.
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The Tommy Vee Take
That’s the scoop for today, fellas. Startups flipping Reddit posts into millions, billionaires turning lawsuits into spectacles, and your doorbell slowly becoming smarter than your neighbors… The AI world isn’t slowing down, and neither should you.
Stay sharp, stay curious, and remember: if it’s moving fast and weird, it’s probably worth watching. This is Tommy Vee, signing off.