Tech giants are hemorrhaging cash as AI transforms the labor market and investment landscape. Anthropic compensates engineers with million-dollar packages while Mark Cuban demands AI companies pay for displaced jobs. Meanwhile BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF suffers massive outflows and South Korea's AI boom concentrates in just two stocks.

Friday, June 26, 2026 — 983 words / ~6.6 min

Today's Top Stories:

  1. Anthropic Pays Two Engineers $1.38 Million Each
  2. BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Bleeds $265M While Publicly Urging Investors to Buy
  3. Brown PhD Dropout Ditches ChatGPT Research for Robot Startup
  4. South Korea's 200% AI Rally Runs on Two Stocks
  5. Mark Cuban Tells AI Companies To Pay Billions For Jobs They Kill