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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, is making waves with sharp criticism of Anthropic and OpenAI, claiming the two AI giants are misappropriating customer intellectual property and that their tokens carry little real-world value. It's a pointed broadside from a competitor, but one that touches on concerns that enterprise clients have quietly raised for some time.
Shifting to the broader economy, this morning's jobs report showed U.S. payroll growth slowing sharply in June, with only fifty-seven thousand positions added. That number is well below expectations and could meaningfully cool market bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike this summer or early fall, with implications rippling across tech investment and startup funding.
And on a quieter but genuinely interesting note, a blog post making the rounds today is simply about writing in British English, specifically en-GB, and why that choice matters for how content is parsed, localized, and understood by machines. It's a small reminder that language standards are infrastructure too, and the choices we make about them have real downstream consequences.
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