AI’s New Power Law Hits Coding, Compute, and War
Monday, June 1, 2026 · 8 min
a16z’s New Power Law frames AI revenue growth as OpenAI and Anthropic scale faster than Big Tech, while Latent Space, Greg Brockman, Anduril’s Chris Brose, and Linux Unplugged trace the downstream fights over coding agents, compute, autonomous weapons, and open source.
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a16z’s New Power Law frames AI revenue growth as OpenAI and Anthropic scale faster than Big Tech, while Latent Space, Greg Brockman, Anduril’s Chris Brose, and Linux Unplugged trace the downstream fights over coding agents, compute, autonomous weapons, and open source.
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- The New Power Law: A Decade of Outcomes in Two Years | a16z — a16z
Anthropic and OpenAI are adding more revenue per month than Meta, Google, or Microsoft. And I wouldn't be surprised if the combination of those two companies is doing [music] 200 billion of revenue run rate. >> Between 2020 and 2024, top 1% exit started at $10 billion. We updated those numbers in February this year, $20 billion. We just updated them yesterday. It's now at $32 billion. So, we've…
- Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray — Latent Space
When people think about the ability of an AI to run your app and test it, I think they actually overindex on the computer use part of it because computer use in my mind is the literal okay you want you know a button you want to click can you emit the right coordinates to go click that button. I think testing is actually a really interesting problem solving uh challenge for these AIs because if…
- OpenAI's Greg Brockman: There Will Be Data Centers Everywhere — The Knowledge Project Podcast
This is going to be the most important question for society to answer. >> You guys were teased for putting so much effort, money into data centers. How do you think that's playing out now? >> Well, I think it's going to give us an advantage and I think it's going to be something that's an advantage not just for the business, but for actually delivering on the mission of bringing this technology…
- How A.I. and Autonomous Weapons Will Shape Future War | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat — The New York Times
What’s your understanding of the constraints on what the Pentagon allows a drone or an autonomous weapon to do without a human deciding, “Kill this person, shoot this person”? The more important thing is what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say you’re not allowed to automate the kill chain. So you’re allowed to do that? You are not not allowed to do that. Right. Chris Brose, welcome to “Interesting…
- LINUX Unplugged 669: Harshing rsync's Vibe — Linux Unplugged
LINUX Unplugged 669: Harshing rsync's Vibe rsync’s founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community’s newest fault line cracks wide open. - ConnecTen Internet— Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35 - 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike - 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM -…