{"id":10205,"date":"2026-07-02T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:09:46","slug":"sam-altman-seeks-new-world-order-for-ai-as-openai-slowly-loses-ground-to-google-and-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10205","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI as OpenAI slowly loses ground to Google and Anthropic\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Tech stocks led declines globally overnight.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> The Nasdaq 100 closed down 1.54% yesterday. By contrast, the equal weight S&amp;P 500 actually hit a record high yesterday\u2014indicating that tech companies are the ones dragging down the broader index. \u201cThe main culprit has been another slide in chip stocks, with the Philly semiconductor index down -6.27%,\u201d Henry Allen and his colleagues at Deutsche Bank told clients this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>ONE BIG THING<\/h3>\n<h2><b>Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">OpenAI founder Sam Altman <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">has proposed a global framework to control AI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and make it safe for humanity. In an op-ed for The Financial Times, he wrote: \u201cA US-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules. This forum might include government representatives, independent technical experts and others. It could also serve as a governance mechanism over the labs, and guard against the commercial pressures that can lead to unsafe racing.\u201d He cited aviation safety, global financial standards, and the International Atomic Energy Agency as examples of world bodies that set global standards in their industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>ChatGPT is slowly losing audience to Gemini and Claude<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in terms of self-reported revenue and is slowly gaining on the latter in terms of users, too. OpenAI has said it is on course to generate $25 billion to $33 billion in annualised revenue in its most recent disclosure. Anthropic, by contrast, said in May it was on course to hit $47 billion and would be profitable in 2029, a year ahead of OpenAI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAnthropic overtook it in business subscriptions in May, according to data from Ramp. And Similarweb data shows monthly visits to ChatGPT fell below a majority of the generative AI market for the first time in May, suggesting consumers are increasingly willing to switch between models,\u201d according to Adrian Cox of the Deutsche Bank Research Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4520051 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 760'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-140100.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Outside of tech, the effect of AI isn&#8217;t showing up<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This chart (below) from Torsten Sl\u00f8k of Apollo Global Management shows the difference in profitability between the Magnificent Seven tech companies and all other companies. Obviously, profit margins at the AI hyperscalers are going through the roof, but it\u2019s slow and steady for all other companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Sl\u00f8k wants to know whether this is because the productivity gains from AI are taking much longer to show up in non-tech businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIn a handful of sectors, software and tech above all, implementation is nearly immediate, since these firms can fold AI into their own products and processes overnight. But that is the exception,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">he said in a recent blog<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cThe list of slow-moving sectors is long, spanning health care, banking and insurance, energy and utilities, defense and aerospace, pharma and life sciences, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, construction and real estate, education, legal and the public sector.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The implication is that AI companies won\u2019t be able to generate a great deal of revenue from non-tech companies for a long time. Reluctant non-tech clients, who don\u2019t see AI adding ROI, may cut their AI token budgets. That would derail the AI revolution, he warns: \u201cIf token costs converge toward zero for most AI use cases, then there is not enough revenue for all hyperscalers even in a situation where compute demand surges higher.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4520052 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 553'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-134047.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Don\u2019t write off non-tech companies, yet<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The profits within the S&amp;P 500 may be heavily driven by tech companies, but the rest of them aren\u2019t slouches, according to LPL Financial\u2019s Jeff Buchbinder. \u201cWhat might surprise you, though, is that S&amp;P 500 EPS growth excluding the Magnificent Seven \u2014 bolstered by the memory makers \u2014 was 17.5% in the first quarter and is expected to eclipse 20.5% in the second quarter,\u201d he said in an email to <em>Fortune<\/em>. Here is his forecast:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"968\" height=\"575\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4520053 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 968 575'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image002.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ALL THE PRESIDENT&#8217;S MONEY<\/h3>\n<h2><b>For wealth managers, Trump\u2019s 927-page financial disclosure is just a normal Tuesday<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">President Donald Trump\u2019s latest financial disclosure has drawn attention for its sheer scale: thousands of stock trades, over $1 billion in crypto income, golf revenue, book royalties, all crammed into a filing that ran to 927 pages this year\u2014compared with eight pages for Barack Obama\u2019s final disclosure and 11 for Joe Biden\u2019s. The optics practically invite suspicion: How does a sitting president buy and sell Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft on the same day, sometimes dozens of times, without personally calling the shots?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But according to people who actually manage the investments for ultra-high net worth individuals\u2014via high-volume, tax-optimized investing\u2014a different picture emerges; those numbers seem pretty normal. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Fortune<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2019s Catherina Gioino has the details<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>MORE FROM FORTUNE<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2018It\u2019s fair to ask whether it was worth it\u2019: The Iran war has cost Americans $1,000 per household\u2014and that\u2019s a conservative estimate, Mark Zandi says<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Tristan Bove<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">How foodservice giant Sodexo is embracing AI and robotics to reshape the kitchen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; John Kell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Anthropic\u2019s AI models are back online after a two-week government standoff\u2014settling the company and administration into a fragile truce<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Tristan Bove<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">U.S. Polo Assn. CEO was told he wasn\u2019t right for a promotion\u2014so he \u2018outworked\u2019 anyone else who wanted the job for 6 months straight<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Orianna Rosa Royle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Exclusive: A VC firm backed by Melinda French Gates just closed a $46 million fund to invest in caregiving<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Emma Hinchliffe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">CEO of $248 billion cybersecurity company says workers are about to face a \u2018Darwinian moment\u2019 thanks to AI: Evolve or get cut<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Emma Burleigh<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>CHART OF THE DAY<\/h3>\n<h2><b>Democrats are losing faith in capitalism<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4520054 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 539'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135016.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Two-thirds of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism, but only 42% of them have a favorable view of capitalism, according to a recent Gallup poll. Piper Sandler\u2019s Andy Laperriere thinks this trend has momentum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cConsider where the Democratic Party is headed. Just in the last week, three progressive incumbent Democrats have been defeated in primaries by socialist candidates, including in Colorado last night. It\u2019s true these were in deep blue districts, but this is no fluke,\u201d he said in a note to clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cFewer Democratic politicians want to step in front of a freight train by making the case for a market-based economy. Therefore, support for capitalism among Democratic voters weakens more, making it even more dangerous to buck the trend. \u2026 What would be a fluke is if a mainstream Democrat won the nomination in 2028.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>NUMBER OF THE DAY<\/h3>\n<h2>$36,000<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">That\u2019s the average cost of a wedding in 2025, according to data from wedding site Zola. \u201cAverage spending per customer on weddings has increased 8.5% year-over-year (YoY) through May 2026, according to Bank of America payments data,\u201d according to BofA\u2019s Liz Everett Krisberg and David Tinsley. \u201cAs for who\u2019s getting married, it\u2019s increasingly Gen Z. The number of Gen Z weddings has tripled versus 2019, with the number growing faster in some parts of the country than others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img alt=\"\" data-cy=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 alignnone size-large wp-image-4520057 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 701'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-01-at-135647.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>THE FRONT PAGES TODAY<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Google loses legal fight over 4.1 billion-euro EU antitrust fine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; CNBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">No expectant moms at the border: Trump&#8217;s birthright Plan B<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Axios<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Argentina angered by prospect of oil boom in Falklands<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; FT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Michael Burry Cites \u2018Beginning of the End\u2019 With New AI Short Bets<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; WSJ<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2018Jealous\u2019 Dimon Is Pushing JPMorgan to Catch Europe&#8217;s Fintechs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; Bloomberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">What would a prenup between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce look like?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> &#8211; NYT<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ONE MORE THING<\/h3>\n<h2><b>At Nvidia, no such thing as a free lunch<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Tech companies notoriously provide their staff with free food\u2014often breakfast, lunch, and dinner\u2014in order to keep them working in the office for longer hours. Google\u2019s HQ has about 30 different caf\u00e9s. Not Nvidia. Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, highlighted the issue of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Nvidia\u2019s food policies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> in a thread on X after a recent visit to the company\u2019s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters: At Nvidia, you have to pay for your meals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The meals are subsidised, however. A former intern who worked at Nvidia in 2014 shows that meals averaged about $6 each, or about $8.50 today. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">intern\u2019s blog<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> is well worth a read\u2014it includes photos from a party CEO Jensen Huang hosted at his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Sam #Altman #seeks #world #order #OpenAI #slowly #loses #ground #Google #Anthropic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech stocks led declines globally overnight. The Nasdaq 100 closed down 1.54% yesterday. 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