YouTube Paid Creators $100 Billion

MrBeast drops a stat: YouTube paid creators $100 billion in four years, more than all other platforms combined.

Elon says X's AI recommendations will be incredible by year end, and ads will actually match your interests instead of spam.

Video editors might be in trouble. Someone made a Polymarket video in 30 minutes with five prompts.

People are getting "Claude-pilled" after watching Anthropic's AI handle complex work that makes other tools look weak.

Jeff Bezos thinks Gen Z should work at McDonald's or Palantir before starting companies. Real world jobs first.

The more AI agents write code, the more devs feel safe knowing reliable software still needs humans who understand systems.

Cowork just organized six months of receipts into categorized spreadsheets by pointing at a folder. That's it.

Meta's CTO called Llama 4 a "disappointment" for having no point of view, but the revamped team's new model looks promising.

Runway showed 1,000 people videos and over 90% couldn't tell which were real versus generated with Gen-4.5.

@levelsio got Claude to actually fly his plane by controlling keys through Chrome, coding and testing in a loop.

Someone recreated a follower animation without After Effects using Claude Code and Remotion. Great animations, no Adobe.

Monologue, a one-person shop that raised zero dollars, gets recommended over competitors with $80M in funding. David's year.

Chasing competitors used to signal weakness. Now it feels like table stakes as the feature race era hits.

Anthropic keeps revising its technical interview because candidates cheat using Claude. The irony is perfect.

Kevin Rose says Kieran's Compound Engineering plugin clicked instantly, going from too much work to everything in seven minutes.

Ben Tossell wrote a coding knowledge dump explaining local vs remote, terminals, markdown files, and the agent loop for non-technical builders.