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PLUS: ChatGPT psychosis, AI job cuts, and 72% of teens use AI companions...

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OpenAI's Project Stargate is off to a bumpy start… and by bumpy, we mean a much smaller data center (under $100B) in Ohio.

Quick refresher: Stargate is the $500B project Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son pitched at the White House in January.

According to WSJ, CEO Sam Altman has been calling lots of things Stargate that aren't technically Stargate, but Sam said OpenAI will surpass 1M GPUs (graphics chips for AI training) by year-end.

Separately, Anthropic's new infrastructure report argued the U.S. AI sector needs 50 gigawatts of new power by 2028 (twice NYC's peak demand) to compete with China, which added 400+ gigawatts last year versus America's few dozen.

This follows Anthropic's analysis claiming they'll need a 2GW data center for advanced Claude model development in 2027, and 5GW in 2028.

A typical nuclear power plant generates around 1GW. So: 2GW data center ≈ 2 nuclear plants, 5GW ≈ 5 nuclear plants. Anybody got spare nuclear power plants lying around??

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We compare the top AI by revenue, usage, and intelligence.
Companies using euphemisms for AI job cuts.
ChatGPT-driven psychosis cases emerging.
72% of teens use AI companions.

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The AI industry just hit three major milestones that show how crazy fast this space is moving.

We're talking massive usage numbers, eye-popping revenue growth, and breakthrough intelligence achievements—all happening at the same time.

The usage explosion is real. OpenAI just revealed some wild stats: ChatGPT users are sending 2.5 billion prompts daily, with 330 million coming from the US alone. That's literally one prompt per American per day. And that's just ChatGPT—add in Claude, Gemini, Grok, and every other AI tool, and we're looking at usage that's starting to rival Google search territory.

Money's flowing like crazy too. Grok 4's launch shows what happens when you actually ship something people want:

Revenue jumped 4x overnight (from $99K daily to $419K).
Downloads spiked 279% (from 52K to 197K within days of launch).
Still tiny compared to the big players, but the growth rate is insane.

For context, OpenAI is pulling in $27 million daily ($10B annual), Anthropic averages $11 million daily ($4B annual), and Google's AI revenue is bundled with Google One subscriptions but estimated around $3-5 million daily. Grok would need to grow 165x just to match OpenAI's current pace.

This doesn’t mean these services are profitable, mind you.

The latest intelligence breakthroughs are the wildest part. Google officially announced that its AI just won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad—and it's a general-purpose model, not some specialized math bot. Even crazier? Both Google and OpenAI achieved similar results using “completely different” approaches:

Google used “parallel thinking” and finished within the actual 4.5-hour time limit, while OpenAI let their model think for hours per problem.

That said, there were at least 27 teenagers who scored higher than both Google AND OpenAI, so really, I think we gotta take this one as a W for us humans.

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Prompt Tip of the Day

Here's a simple hack to slash your ChatGPT (or other either) costs: Chain-of-Draft prompting. Tell your AI to think step-by-step, but limit each reasoning step to 5 words max.

Instead of: “First, I need to subtract 12 from 20 to find the difference, which represents how many lollipops Jason gave away...”

You get: “20 - 12 = 8 #### Final Answer: 8”

Same accuracy, way fewer tokens. Just add “keep reasoning steps under 5 words” to your prompts and use “####” before final answers.

We’re not entirely sure if OpenAI’s recent math solver used chain of draft, but the way its reasoning appeared reminded us of this technique.

The idea here is to get the AI to mimic how you (a human) actually solve problems—quick mental notes, not essays. Your AI bill will thank you.

Check out all of our Prompt Tips of the Day from June here.

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*Murf AI turns your text into human-like speech in 200+ voices, so you can narrate presentations or create audiobooks without recording anything yourself.
Qwen3-235B-A22B is Alibaba’s latest open source model that switches between deep thinking and fast response modes, using only 22B of its 235B parameters (that means big brain smarts) at once for lean operation—try here.
OpenReasoning-Nemotron is NVIDIA’s open-source reasoning model that solves complex math problems, writes code, and answers science questions by thinking through each step (1.5B/7B/14B/32B versions)—free to use.
AccountingBench tests how well AI models can close the books for your business using real financial data from systems like Stripe, Mercury, and Ramp.
Dia, the first AI browser, has a new Skills Library, that lets you create custom "/" commands for instant AI tasks on any webpage (Perplexity’s Comet Browser is working on its own shortcuts that should roll out this week).
Slingshot delivers personalized therapy sessions through Ash, their AI therapist that challenges you and adapts therapeutic techniques to your style, whether you prefer deep reflection or practical advice (raised $40M).
Trae builds complete apps for you in 30 minutes without writing any code.

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Around the Horn.

PSA: Never replace your friend’s time and effort with an AI… you wanna use AI and not collaborate? Fine, do it on your own project, not a previous collab.

Fidji Simo (former Instacart CEO) wrote a blog post on OpenAI announcing her upcoming role as CEO of Applications and outlining how AI can democratize empowerment across knowledge, health, creativity, economic freedom, time, and support.
Employment experts believe major companies are using terms like “reorganizing”, “restructuring”, and “optimizing” as an excuse for AI-driven job cuts—as a result, 60% of Gen Z can’t find jobs.
ChatGPT-driven psychosis is a very real issue to look out for, like this case where an OpenAI investor posted a conspiracy video that sounds like pure GPT-rambling technobabble.
Commonsense Media found that 72% of teens have used AI companions, with one-third chosing AI over humans for serious conversations and nearly a quarter shared personal information that platforms can legally retain and commercialize indefinitely.

For the latest AI deep dives, check out our Explainer articles here!

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