🍭 Trump Called The Brakes A Hoax 🏛️

Good morning. Turns out existential risk gets resolved by a phone call before lunch. Nobody tell the safety researchers.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍳 What’s Cookin’:

• Trump ended the AI safety debate by phone.

• Chipmakers got wrecked, Microsoft and Alphabet went up. Read that twice.

• Perplexity's agent now runs on your own graphics card.

Trump & Huang
☎️ Settled AI Safety By Phone

The Bite:

Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday calling on AI labs to slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly backed him.

Speaking to reporters in Ireland on Sunday, President Trump said the warnings were exaggerated and blamed "negative forces."

On Monday, the president called the concerns a hoax on Truth Social, then phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles.

Huang put the call on speaker for the audience.

AI stocks fell the same day.

Snacks:

• Huang answered Trump on speaker with "We're not going to let that happen, sir."

• Trump posted that the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president lol.

• David Sacks told the labs to "stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic." (precise)

• Nvidia fell more than 3% Monday while Alphabet rose almost 2% and Microsoft added 1.6%.

• Gallup polling shows seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their area.

Why it Bites:

If you look close enough, all of it actually makes sense.

Amodei sells safety.
Trump sells the race.
Huang sells the shovels and can’t afford a pause.

And the hyperscalers, who do the spending rather than collect it, would quite enjoy a world where they stop buying and start harvesting what they already built.

The market sorted all of this out by lunch.

Chipmakers down almost 6%, Alphabet and Microsoft up.

Nobody on Wall Street debated whether AI is dangerous.
They just priced who gets poorer if everyone agrees that it is.

The most honest line of the weekend came from David Sacks, who is on Trump's side of this. He told the labs to quit pretending that the slowdown talk is altruistic and pointed at their liability exposure instead.

He's right. He just forgot to run the same test on himself.

Now the question I want you to walk out with:

What is still missing for AI to be good enough for you?

Steal This Prompt
🌄 Turn Your Face Into a Movie Poster

urn a reference photo into a cinematic, ultra-realistic portrait that looks less “AI selfie” and more “why is A24 calling me?”

Use it to:

• Create cinematic profile pics that actually have main-character energy

• Turn basic headshots into polished editorial portraits

• Build dramatic character looks for social, branding, or creative projects

Workflow:

1. Hit this link: Cinematic Realistic Portrait

2. Paste into your AI model

3. Upload your reference photo (optional)

4. Replace the #s with your details

5. Suddenly your LinkedIn photo has a third-act arc

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🔐 tiun

Collapses Stripe, Clerk, invoicing and analytics into one backend, and takes Merchant of Record duty so global taxes stop being your problem.

🎙️ Voiskey

Voice typing that reshapes a rough spoken thought to fit wherever it's landing, loose in a DM, composed in an email, precise in a prompt.

🗺️ siift

Turns the sprawl of AI chats and half-made decisions into a running map of your business, then argues with the assumptions underneath it.

🛡️ Axari

Gives a security engineer a Slack-resident twin that chases down alert owners, files the work, and keeps following up until the thing is actually closed.

🔍 Anthropologic

Consumer research built around why people actually behave the way they do, not what they tell you in a survey.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🖥️ Perplexity Brings Its Local Agent To Windows
→ Portable Computer arrived on Nvidia RTX PCs with at least 24GB of video memory, running the model, orchestrator and scheduler entirely on the device.

🤖 Salesforce Ships Seven Named Agentforce Agents
→ Six agents are generally available now, while outbound sales agent Hunter stays in pilot until November on a runtime built to pursue goals across weeks.

📉 Nvidia Leads Chip Selloff After Slowdown Calls
→ Nvidia fell 3.4% Monday and the PHLX semiconductor index sank almost 6%, its worst day since early July, after AI executives called for slowing development.

💰 Cohere In Talks To Raise $3 Billion
→ The Globe and Mail reported Friday that the Toronto company is negotiating a $2 billion to $3 billion round at a $20 billion valuation, with the Canadian government participating.

🏛️ Trump Calls AI Risk Warnings A Hoax
→ Trump rejected the slowdown calls across six posts Monday, then phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All In Summit to say the robots will not be taking over.