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TIM COOK STEPS DOWN AS APPLE CEO — JOHN TERNUS TAKES OVER SEPT 1◆ OPENAI PROJECTS $100B IN AD REVENUE BY 2030 — ANTHROPIC STAYS AD-FREE◆ Q1 2026 VC SHATTERS RECORDS: $300B DEPLOYED — 81% TO AI◆ STANFORD AI INDEX: 88% ORGANIZATIONAL ADOPTION — CODING BENCHMARKS HIT 100%◆ GENERATIVE AI HITS 53% POPULATION ADOPTION — FASTER THAN PC OR INTERNET◆ TIM COOK STEPS DOWN AS APPLE CEO — JOHN TERNUS TAKES OVER SEPT 1◆ OPENAI PROJECTS $100B IN AD REVENUE BY 2030 — ANTHROPIC STAYS AD-FREE◆ Q1 2026 VC SHATTERS RECORDS: $300B DEPLOYED — 81% TO AI◆ STANFORD AI INDEX: 88% ORGANIZATIONAL ADOPTION — CODING BENCHMARKS HIT 100%◆ GENERATIVE AI HITS 53% POPULATION ADOPTION — FASTER THAN PC OR INTERNET◆

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The Capex Bill Comes Due. And the jobs apocalypse gets called off.

Alphabet posted a 298% earnings jump built on a $99B paper gain — and burned $5.9B of cash doing it. Microsoft and Amazon report within 24 hours, the Fed decides the same afternoon, and the economists who forecast a white-collar collapse spent the week walking it back.

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JULY 15, 2026

The $6 Trillion Question. Our first video is live.

A 10-minute anatomy of the AI boom’s money machine. Plus: New York becomes the first state to ban AI data centers, IBM craters 25%, and inflation prints its biggest monthly drop in six years.

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BRIEFING #12

JUNE 1, 2026

The Bill Comes Due. $2.59T on AI. $39T in debt. $96 oil. Pick your crisis.

SpaceX reveals Anthropic pays them $15B/year. Gartner says the world spends $2.59T on AI. JPMorgan says it’s America’s only hope. Cerebras IPO’d and crashed.

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BRIEFING #11

MAY 24, 2026

The Verdict Is In. Musk loses in under two hours. Google declared war.

9-0 unanimous. Google drops Gemini 3.5, Antigravity, and a 24/7 AI agent. Warsh takes the Fed oath. S&P posts 8th straight weekly gain.

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Every Issue

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Same structure every week.

Opening Brief — The week's biggest story in 3 sentences.
Main Analysis — Alex Morgan's 200-word breakdown.
3 Quick Bullets — The data points worth remembering.
Tool of the Week — One AI tool, explained practically.
Alex's Take — A direct, unfiltered closing perspective.

THE LEDGER WIRE · BRIEFING #4

Oracle just cut 30,000 jobs to pay for AI.

Wednesday, April 1 · 5 min read · Free

Opening Brief

On Tuesday morning at 6am, employees across the US, India, Canada and Mexico opened their email to find a message from "Oracle Leadership." Their roles had been eliminated. That day was their last...

3 Quick Bullets