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The Healthcare Company That Built the AI Tool It Couldn’t Buy

Off-the-shelf AI couldn’t meet Headway’s security and workflow needs, so it built its own on the Claude Code SDK. Now the whole company uses it.

Apollo, a major player in GPU-backed loans, hacked.

You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46.

Membership into Miami’s most exclusive club is something money can’t buy—and Jeff Bezos is among those standing outside, looking in

Jeff Bezos has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying his way into one of Miami’s most exclusive neighborhoods. But even the founder of Amazon, which sits atop the Fortune 500, has yet to squeeze his way into the private club at the center of it.

Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’—and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud

Long before Phoebe Gates cofounded the AI personal shopping assistant Phia, she was a student at Stanford University working towards a bachelor’s degree in human biology. While her transcript reflects coursework in epidemiology and health policy analysis, Gates attended one secret winter-quarter class that reportedly helped her establish Phia.

Where Bumble's ex-CEO is going next and other female exec moves to know

Happy Friday, MPW Daily readers. We’re headed into the final days of summer—usually a slow news time, but you all are still making moves. Here are the latest career moves to have on your radar. See you on Monday!

MAHA activists urge Trump against promoting coal to power energy-hungry AI data centers

NEW YORK — Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump’s promotion of coal to fuel the rise of artificial intelligence data centers , according to a letter sent Friday.

'Take time in quiet': Melinda French Gates says to spend at least 10 minutes a day on self-care

Melinda French Gates first realized the importance of self-care in early motherhood. In between carpools, when her three kids were napping, and early in the morning, she recognized that she needed time to herself—to allow herself to breathe.

Scott Bessent is 'playing with fire' as the Treasury's debt buyback risks putting the dollar in a devaluation spiral like the yen, economist warns

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears to be heading down a path similar to Japan’s, and it signals “debasement” of the dollar, according to a top economist.

A Jensen Huang double-signed workstation Blackwell GPU sold for over $57,000

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signed one of the chipmaker's desktop GPU units as a prize in March. It just fetched over $57,000 at auction.

‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction

Google’s $10 million purchase of a vast archive of Spirit Airlines’ internal data—which includes employee emails—has run into opposition from flight attendants, who argue that the privacy protections attached to the deal do not adequately cover sensitive information. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which represents flight attendants nationwide, filed an objection in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the proposed sale of the airline’s digital records to Google.

Trump admits tariffs are a tax on America's love for hamburgers and allows 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports at 'below current market prices'

Donald Trump is temporarily opening the U.S. market to additional beef imports over the next three months and will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product to enter the country without being subject to out-of-quota tariffs.

AI will not give you Fridays off

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote one of the most optimistic predictions in the history of economics. Thanks to technology and rising productivity, he argued, future generations would work no more than 15 hours a week. They would have so much leisure time they would barely know what to do with it. Keynes was one of the most brilliant economic minds of the twentieth century. He was also spectacularly wrong on this question. In 1950, Americans averaged 38 hours a week. Today, we average 34. Nearly a century of technological progress, from electrification to the PC to the internet to the cloud, moved the needle by four hours.