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Humans have fought every technological innovation since the dawn of time.

AI is no different.

Ignore it. It doesn’t serve you.

And they aren’t going to stop it. They are just going to push it outside to other states or countries who will benefit.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

If you spend any time on things like this, on either resisting AI or fighting people that are resisting it, you are being sucked into a pendulum that will sap your energy and make it harder for you to build the life you want.

This is true of politics, pop culture, sports, etc.

-Colin
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📰 Links

• Lawfare: How AI data centers are shaping politics

• AOL: Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez push a bill to impose an AI data center moratorium

• AOL: The coming war over AI will define the 2026 midterms

• Intel Newsroom: Intel announces a proposed 15 billion dollar common stock offering

• Tech Startups: Top tech news today, August 10, 2026

• CNBC: Intel plans a 15 billion dollar stock offering as AI demand accelerates

📈 Markets

🤖 AI

• 🟢 DDOG +6.43% — cloud monitoring bid up as AI workloads keep expanding. Observability is a tax on every agent you run.

• 🟢 NTAP +6.02% — storage riding the AI infrastructure buildout. Somebody has to hold all that data.

• 🔴 INTC -4.00% — announced a 15 billion dollar common stock offering, holders got diluted. Note they are raising it to build, not to survive.

• 🔴 TTD -5.60% — digital ad weakness. Ad tech is where AI disruption shows up in the numbers first.

💻 Tech

• 🟢 AKAM +8.30% — best single move on the board, on delivery and security demand. Boring pipes, real money.

• 🔴 EBAY -4.60% — e-commerce pressure. Marketplaces without a distribution edge are getting squeezed.

• 🔴 AAPL lower after a Jefferies downgrade on next-gen iPhone manufacturing setbacks. No clean percentage sourced today, so no number invented here.

🏦 Finance

• 🔴 VRSK -4.47% — analytics name sold off on broader caution.

• No sourced finance gainer cleared the bar today. Leaving it blank rather than inventing a ticker.

🌎 Other

• 🟢 VRTX +6.04% — biotech momentum, nothing to do with AI. Good reminder the whole market is not one trade.

• 🟢 APA +5.85% — oil prices rose, energy followed. Power is the physical bill for the AI buildout.

• 🔴 CTRA -8.62% — biggest loser on the board, energy cutting both directions in the same session.

• 🔴 FSLR -5.45% — renewables pulled back while fossil energy ran. The grid story is not clean yet.

Colin’s take: same day, energy up 5.85% and down 8.62%, and the biggest gainer was a content delivery company nobody argues about online. The loud fight and the actual money are in two different rooms. Source: 24/7 Wall St, Aug 10.

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📊 Stats

• TSMC July sales rose 45% year over year. AI chip demand is not slowing down. Source: Barron's via Tech Startups

• Intel is selling 15 billion dollars of common stock to fund AI and foundry capacity. Source: Intel Newsroom

• South Korea launched a 3.5 billion dollar fund to strengthen its AI chip supply chain. Source: Reuters via Tech Startups

🔥 Useful Sh!t Corner 🔥

• 🗓️ On this day — In 1846 the Smithsonian Institution was founded, funded by an Englishman who never once set foot in America.

• 🦾 How to be dangerous — Learn to read a company's capital spending. What people build tells you more than what they say.

• 🌞 Health — Ten minutes of sun before your first screen. Sets the clock, kills the 3pm crash.

• 🍳 Cooking — Salt your ground beef after it browns, not before. Before, it pulls water and you steam it instead of searing it.

• 💬 Quote — "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

• 🤖 AI reality check — A model that writes your first draft has not saved you time until your edit pile shrinks. Count the rework before you call it leverage.

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