🍦 "Stargate" Is Now a Real $500B Government Project
🍦 Plus, Amazon's $50B AI push, OpenAI's data leak, and Claude Opus 4.5
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November 30, 2025
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President Trump’s Stargate project is taking shape: OpenAI + Oracle + SoftBank are joining in to the project named after a show where alien DevOps deploy hotfixes through interdimensional SSH
Amazon committed $50 billion: To build AI infra for U.S. government agencies, so the FBI agent who used to secretly listen to your phone calls just got promoted to “Senior Automation Strategist.”
Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.5: And swept every benchmark, and now Google’s Gemini Pro 3 is in the corner like that Pakistani fan meme
💰 Market Moves
[INVESTMENT] Amazon committed $50 billion
To build AI infra for U.S. government agencies, so the FBI agent who used to secretly listen to your phone calls just got promoted to “Senior Automation Strategist.”
[PROJECT] President Trump’s Stargate project is taking shape
OpenAI + Oracle + SoftBank are joining in to the project named after a show where alien DevOps deploy hotfixes through interdimensional SSH
[FUNDING] Luma AI raised $900 million
Led by a Saudi firm to expand its generative videos of camel races or something idk
[VALUATION] Harmonic, the anti-hallucination AI startup
From the Robinhood guy, is now valued at $1.5 billion, and somewhere in D.C. the IRS just whispered “not this guy again” and reopened a few Google Docs.
[VALUATION] Elon Musk is pushing xAI valuation
To $230 billion, which feels less a valuation and more a dare.
[COMMITMENT] NVIDIA has committed to rent $26B
In cloud servers in the next 6 years, till then i vision sales reps walking around Silicon Valley like: “psst, you want two H200s?”
[FUNDING] Cursor the vs code fork, raised $2.3 billion
To build its own model,Composer the Claude Sonnet fork hahahahah (crowd goes booooooooo relax! relax! its a joke i know we all love cursor ❤ )
[LAYOFFS] HP is “integrating AI into operations”
Which is corporate for “bye everyone”, no joke, they’re going to cut 4,000–6,000 employees by 2028
🛠️ Tech & Product
[LAUNCH] Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.5
And swept every benchmark, and now Google’s Gemini Pro 3 is in the corner like that Pakistani fan meme
[LAUNCH] Ex–MrBeast Jay Neo just launched Palo
A $250/mo AI tool exclusively for creators with 100k+ followers, it analyzes their videos, mimics their style, and helps them recreate the formula they clearly already mastered.
[LAUNCH] OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Shopping Research
An AI that shops like your mom, asks you 40 questions, judges every choice you make, then picks the thing you should’ve bought in the first place.
[LAUNCH] Perplexity also launched Perplexity Shopping
Turning in ChatGPT’s worksheet word-for-word like the teacher wasn’t going to notice, cmon guys
[RUMOR] Google is preparing Aluminium OS
A Frankenstein ChromeOS built on top of Android then patched into PC with Gemini AI shoved into whatever space is left.
[LAUNCH] OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Study Mode and ChatGPT for Teachers
Education tools built for a school system so outdated that teachers now use AI to create homework and students use the same AI to solve it, completing the ecosystem without anyone actually learning anything.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced OpenAI’s first phone-like prototype
It has no screen, no notifications, no apps, no camera, no icons, no sounds, no features at all, it’s basically void, and you will buy it for a
[LAUNCH] Alibaba launched Qwen Smart Glasses
AI-powered eyewear with navigation so you can be ambushed by “90% OFF FLASH SALE” pop-ups right into your brain.
[LAUNCH] n8n announced Version 2.0
Featuring AI agents that help you turn a five-minute task into an eight-hour IKEA-style node jungle, conveniently large enough to screenshot and post on LinkedIn with the caption “BUILT THIS IN 5 MINUTES — COMMENT ‘WANT’ BELOW”
[LAUNCH] ElevenLabs launched a marketplace
Allowing brands to license voices of celebrities, prepare for product demos with David Attenborough going “here we see the stealth-mode startup… unaware it is not funding-ready”
🗣️ Industry Chatter
[PROJECTION] OpenAI has projected
That at least 220 million people will pay for ChatGPT subscriptions by 2030, a number that bravely assumes humanity survives that long to renew.
[WARNING] Sam Altman warned employees
Of “temporary economic headwinds” as Google resurges, which is CEO-language for “we need to outrun Google before they remember they invented half this stuff”
[RUMOR] Meta is reportedly building Project Luna
To challenge ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode, moving at a pace that makes it feel like Internet Explorer is running their innovation department.
[RESEARCH] MIT launched the “Iceberg Index”
Predicting AI will disrupt 11.7% of U.S. jobs and $1.2 trillion in wages, they marked the exact spot the Titanic would hit, but everyone just keeps ordering cocktails.
[BREACH] OpenAI suffered a data breach
Through Mixpanel that exposed user names and emails, all because some senior PM wanted to A/B test a button color.
[CONTROVERSY] xAI’s Grok faced backlash
After the model went on a tangent praising Elon Musk as “fitter than LeBron James,” ← I haven’t touched this item lol this is the original
[RESEARCH] Anthropic released research
Showing AI models can learn deception and sabotage, confirming the models are entering their teenager phase .
[RESEARCH] Chinese Scientists developed a computing system
That processes AI with light, making GPUs obsolete; NVIDIA has responded by acquiring the sun.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Elon Musk announced Grok 5
Will battle the best League Of Legends team alive, putting AI through the most toxic test environment ever created.
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