Alphabet joins the $3T club

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Monday.

Alphabet just crossed the $3 trillion mark, lifted by AI momentum and an antitrust ruling that eased breakup fears.

It’s been the strongest performer in the Magnificent Seven this year, a sign of how confidence is concentrating around companies with a clear path to monetizing AI at scale.

This milestone shows that market leadership in AI is now a defining factor in how the world’s most valuable companies are valued.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

I want to highlight this incredible proof of concept from Stefan Aberer. It’s honestly one of the best AI car specs I have ever seen.

It took 80 hours of editing and $500 in credits.

Here’s the wild part...it was made 8 months ago.

Watch the video. Posted on LinkedIn.

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💡 Here’s what you should know

• The AI adoption leaderboard

  DC 3.82x, Utah 3.78x, California 2.13x. What Anthropic’s Index means for headcount, workflows, and near term ROI.

• OpenAI launches GPT-5 Codex for coding agents

  GPT-5 Codex brings faster, more reliable agentic coding with real-time collaboration, long-task execution, and built-in code review that catches critical bugs before they ship.

• Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in AI shift

  Fiverr is laying off 250 employees as it restructures into an AI-first company focused on automation and leaner operations.

• Stanford tests AI agents on real clinical tasks

  Stanford’s new MedAgentBench shows models like Claude 3.5 can perform EHR tasks with up to a 70% success rate, marking a shift from chatbots to true clinical teammates.

• Warner Bros. edges closer to victory in Blade Runner AI lawsuit

  A judge dismissed key claims against Warner Bros. Discovery in Alcon’s suit alleging Tesla used Blade Runner 2049 images in an AI generator, though contributory infringement claims remain as the case continues.

• Cohere opens Paris office to expand in Europe

  Canadian AI startup Cohere, valued at $6.8B, is pushing into Europe with a new Paris hub as it looks to capture growing enterprise demand and compete with local rival Mistral.

• Google AI predicts monsoon for 38M farmers

  Google’s NeuralGCM model powered SMS forecasts in India that predicted the monsoon up to a month in advance, helping millions of farmers improve planting decisions and incomes.

• Samsung rolls out One UI 8 with advanced AI

  Samsung’s One UI 8 brings multimodal AI, personalized suggestions, and upgraded security to Galaxy devices starting with the S25 series, expanding to more models later this year.

💰 The numbers

• CoreWeave signed a $6.3B cloud capacity order with Nvidia, guaranteeing Nvidia will purchase unused capacity through 2032.

• Lila Sciences raised $235M Series A co-led by Braidwell and Collective Global to build “scientific superintelligence” for autonomous labs.

• GreenLite raised $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners to automate construction permitting with AI.

• MarqVision raised $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners to expand its AI IP protection platform, now at $20M ARR and operating across 1,500+ platforms in 118 countries.

• Nory raised £27M Series B (≈ $34M USD) led by Kinnevik to expand its AI-native restaurant management system.

• Spara raised $15M seed to build AI sales agents for inbound calls, chat, and email.

• Eloquent AI raised $7.4M seed led by Foundation Capital to scale its Oratio LLM for regulated financial workflows.

• Assured raised $6M seed to cut provider credentialing time with AI in healthcare.

🧠 Thought starters

The largest study of 1.5M ChatGPT conversations shows adoption spreading across gender, age, and income levels.

Usage clusters into three buckets: asking for advice, doing tasks like writing or coding, and expressing ideas.

More than 70% of use is now non-work, yet it still generates real economic value, making ChatGPT both a productivity tool and an everyday utility.

Quick insights (see visual below):

• Education is a big slice: About 10% of all usage, and over a third of “Practical Guidance,” is tutoring or teaching. That positions ChatGPT as an education tool, not just productivity software.

• Writing is more about editing than creating: Two-thirds of writing use cases are editing, critiquing, or translating user text, less about generating from scratch.

• Coding is smaller than assumed: Only about 4% of conversations are programming, far below the popular narrative that LLMs are mainly for developers.

• Self-expression is niche: Just 2.4% of usage is relationships, reflection, or role play, despite media takes that frame chatbots as companions.

There’s two more charts that talk about intent:

• Overall: Nearly half of all messages are “Asking” (advice, guidance, decision support). About 40% are “Doing” (task completion like writing or coding). A smaller share (~11%) is “Expressing” (personal reflection or play).

• At work: The balance shifts. Over half of work-related usage is “Doing” (mainly writing tasks), while about a third is “Asking.”

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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