☕️ Sam Altman proposes AI tax and regulation blueprint

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🤖 Sam Altman proposes AI tax and regulation blueprint

🔍 LinkedIn secretly scans over 6000 browser extensions

❌ China forces Apple to remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat

📉 OpenAI CFO questions readiness for 2026 IPO

📱 Vibe coding boosted App Store submissions in 2025

Plus: 🎁 13 other news you might like, 🧰 5 tools, and 📚 3 papers.

🤖 Sam Altman proposes AI tax and regulation blueprint LINK

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman released a 13-page policy blueprint on Monday that proposes new taxes, a public wealth fund, and regulation to prepare for AI's expected impact on jobs and the economy.

The document calls for taxes "related to automated labor" to protect funding for programs like Social Security and SNAP, and recommends giving every citizen a stake in AI-driven economic growth.

Altman also suggested employers and unions push for four-day workweeks with no pay cuts, expanded training for human-centered jobs, and guardrails on how the government can deploy AI systems.

🔍 LinkedIn secretly scans over 6000 browser extensions LINK

A report called BrowserGate accuses LinkedIn of running hidden code that scans for over 6,000 browser extensions on users' computers, linking specific software choices back to real people and their employers.

The investigation claims LinkedIn can infer personal details like religious beliefs, political views, or job-seeking activity, and also scans for over 200 competing products like Lusha, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.

LinkedIn denies the accusations, saying it checks for extensions only to stop scammers and scraping, while the report's author is a developer whose account was restricted for breaking platform rules.

❌ China forces Apple to remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat LINK

Apple pulled Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging app Bitchat from its China App Store after Beijing's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, said it violated rules on services capable of social mobilization.

Bitchat works entirely over Bluetooth and mesh networks without internet connectivity, letting messages hop between devices — a design that has made it popular during government-imposed connectivity blackouts in multiple countries.

The app has passed three million total downloads across platforms, and this is the second time China has targeted a Dorsey-backed decentralized app, after banning the Nostr-based Damus in 2023.

📉 OpenAI CFO questions readiness for 2026 IPO LINK

OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar has told colleagues the company is not ready for an initial public offering by late 2026, putting her in direct conflict with CEO Sam Altman's goal to list by Q4.

Internal projections show OpenAI burning through more than $200 billion before reaching positive cash flow, with losses for 2026 alone projected at roughly $14 billion against $2 billion in monthly revenue.

Friar no longer reports to Altman directly, has been excluded from key financial meetings, and the company has quietly retained Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to manage a possible offering.

📱 Vibe coding boosted App Store submissions in 2025 LINK

App Store submissions surged 84 percent year-over-year in Q1 2026, and the growth of vibe coding tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex is believed to be driving the increase.

For the full year of 2025, submissions grew 30 percent versus 2024, nearly hitting 600,000 total, with momentum building each quarter and accelerating sharply into early 2026.

Apple says its review team processes 90 percent of submissions within 48 hours, but developers and consumers have complained about lower-quality apps flooding the App Store as a result.

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🧰 Trending tools

YouTube Search Form: a web interface that exposes YouTube's advanced search filters like duration, upload date, captions, and quality in one convenient form.LINK

InfluencerPricer: calculates data-driven collaboration prices for Instagram and TikTok creators based on their profile metrics and engagement data.LINK

Mailero: converts customer emails into organized support tickets with a minimalist interface, designed for solo founders and small teams needing GDPR-compliant ticket management.LINK

AgentPulse by Rectify: consolidates session replay, monitoring, support tickets, code scanning, and roadmaps into a single platform for managing SaaS operations efficiently.LINK

Walkie: a desktop speech-to-text app offering cloud-based transcription with formatting or fully offline dictation for privacy-conscious users on macOS and Windows.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

A classroom exercise teaches students to evaluate AI claims by having them test ChatGPT's accuracy on tasks like math problems, revealing how hype differs from reality through hands-on experimentation.LINK

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