Jeff Bezos says low earners in the US should pay zero tax - Business Insider
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the fourth-richest man in the world, says low earners in the US should pay no tax."1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue; the bottom half pay only 3%. I think it should be zero," Bezos said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday."There's something very powerful about zero."During the interview, Bezos repeatedly criticized taxation on lower-income workers, using the example of a "nurse in Queens earning $75,000."Speaking from his Blue Origin rocket facility in Florida, Bezos said the US in 2026 is a "tale of two economies.""You have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling," Bezos said.He was nodding to the current K-shaped economy: many wealthy Americans have benefited from a prolonged stock-market boom and surging real estate prices in recent years, while others have been squeezed by stubborn inflation, onerous interest rates, and an affordability crisis."Some people talk about making the tax system more progressive," Bezos said.
Elon Musk said Sam Altman "stole" a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims - TechCrunch
The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it. Watching the closing arguments last week, OpenAI’s attorneys detailed point by point how the law was on their client’s side, while the plaintiff’s team focused on Sam Altman’s apparent lack of credibility and expressed disbelief that anyone would disagree with Musk’s accusations.
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team - TechCrunch
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday.
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found. - TechCrunch
Most members of Stanford’s class of 2026 are smart, ambitious, and poised for remarkable careers. Theo Baker already has one.