' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 377k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: Then we set up two Claude Code Routines. Now we walk into a labeled queue, a PR digest, and a Slack message confirming the deploy is clean. Four recovered hours per week, every week, without a single person doing the work. Claude Code Routines - launched April 14, 2026 in research preview - let you define a prompt, point it at a GitHub repository, attach a trigger (a cron schedule, an API webhook, or a GitHub event like pull_request.opened), and let Claude execute it autonomously on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure. We also cover the parts most people skip: the daily run caps that will catch you off guard (Pro plans max out at 5 routine runs per day), the security reality of every routine running under your personal GitHub identity, prompt injection risks when routines ingest external data like support tickets and customer emails, the four failure modes that will burn you if you don't design for them, and the cost math that determines whether batching five tasks into one meta-routine is worth the complexity....

When Meta released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday evening, a colleague pointed out how Meta lost $4 billion on Reality Labs, the division responsible for its AR glasses, VR headsets, and VR software. Then I realized, that itself is notable ' for Meta, losses on this unit are quite literally average behavior. Over its last 21 quarterly earnings reports, dating back to 2021, Meta has lost a total of $83.5 billion on Reality Labs, which comes out to an average of about $4 billion in losses each quarter. That is bananas! True, it's not like Meta doesn't have the money. In the first quarter of this year, the social media giant posted a net income of $26.8 billion, up 61% over the year prior; revenue also increased 33% year-over-year to $56.3 billion. But despite its foundation in social media, Meta's current goal is to stay competitive with AI leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta projected that it will spend between $125 billion and $145 billion in 2026, exceeding analysts' projections and Meta's previous estimates....

In this video interview, incoming Argenx CEO Karen Massey explains how the European biotech generates $4 billion in annual revenue with fewer than 2,000 employees ' and describes the organizational model that makes it possible. Biotech companies face the same dilemma as businesses in other industries: Innovation drops off dramatically with scale. European biotech Argenx has reached a market value of more than $40 billion, having so far escaped that innovation trap. How has it done this' The company shuns hierarchy and instead organizes into small teams, each dedicated to fighting a single disease with a laser focus on bringing value to the patient. Listen as hosts Kate W. Isaacs and Michele Zanini dig into the details of how Argenx uses distributed leadership to maintain its innovative edge and uncover insights that you can apply in your own organization....

Amazon was one of several tech giants that on Wednesday beat Wall Street's first-quarter earnings expectations, offering more financial evidence that the AI boom continues to reward companies that supply the picks and shovels. Amazon's cloud business is the latest example. Amazon Web Services, buoyed by its role in fueling the AI boom, saw its net sales increase 28% year-over-year, climbing to $37.6 billion, the company said Wednesday. It was the fastest growth rate for AWS in 15 quarters, Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy said during the company's earnings call. 'It's very unusual for business to grow this fast on a base this large. The last time we saw growth at this clip, AWS was roughly half the size,' Jassy said. 'We've never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI. Amazon is already a leader, and companies continue to choose AWS for AI.' Jassy compared the business unit's growth to the aughts. 'To put our growth in perspective, three years after AWS launched, it had a $58 million revenue run rate. [During] the first three years of this AI wave, AWS's AI revenue run rate is over $15 billion ' nearly 260 times larger.'...