Optifye.ai, an AI performance monitoring system that tracks productivity in factories, sparked controversy following its viral launch video, in which one of the founders berated a hypothetical “employee 17” for barely working. Critics, a mix of commie journos and disheartened e/acc cherubs, christened the product a “sweatshop company.” Obviously, that isn’t fair or true. Performance tracking is common across even some white collar jobs (sales, eng, legal), and no, it’s not dehumanizing to demand employees work? But I’d be lying if I said I found this kind of project inspiring, and with tech automating labor on one hand, it can’t be making the experience of human laborers as miserable as possible on the other without expecting populists on both sides of the political aisle to liquidate the industry. Wisdom, please — and just do something cool. Come on! Cloning the wooly mammoth is right there.

America is experiencing a string of Wild West-style train heists — but instead of bandits stealing gold bars, it’s illegal Mexican nationals making off with millions of dollars of unreleased Nike shoes. In at least ten major heists since last March, thieves have been hopping onto slow-moving freight trains in Arizona, forcing emergency stops, and looting sneaker shipments. The crews are allegedly led by a Breaking Bad-type mastermind (literally known as “Pollo”) who is, unbelievably, still coordinating operations while in prison?? While there is something undeniably cool and cinematically nostalgic about the aesthetic of train raiders striking American desert ghost towns — Red Dead Redemption, but with utility vans and sneakerheads — train heists should be history, not a logistics problem for Nike. Somehow, the most powerful country on earth is getting duped by 1880s-style crime sprees?? We have autonomous drones and computers that reason better than most humans — let’s not lose to cowboy-era cliches.

Columbia University is hiring former CIA Director/Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a fellow at the school’s Institute of Global Politics, where he’ll reportedly teach courses on diplomacy, decision making, and organizational leadership. The move comes amid pressure on elite universities like Columbia to be more open to ideas slightly right of “terrorist sympathizer” after far-left mobs on campus led to outrage in Congress and the eventual ouster of university presidents like Harvard’s Claudine Gay. But what’s equally interesting about this Professor Pompeo development is how much of a contrast it reveals between the first Trump administration and this second one. What’s that, Mike? You want to run the CIA again? Sorry, champ — the boss is serious about that America First stuff this time. Neocons can still teach “Leadership 101” to 19-year-olds, but dudes with shows on Rumble are in charge of our intelligence agencies now.

In Q4 2024, Databricks’ estimated valuation on Augment surged 38.6%, reaching $62B* after a massive $10B funding round — one of the largest in VC history.

Why? As AI adoption accelerates, companies need infrastructure to manage and process massive datasets. Investors believe Databricks is positioning itself as a key player, helping businesses integrate data with AI. Could it become part of AI’s backbone, the invisible infrastructure powering everything? If so, many believe its ceiling could be far higher than what we see today.

We’re partnering with Augment Capital, where accredited investors access private securities, employees can gain liquidity, and pricing can be tracked in real time. Because if Databricks is shaping AI’s foundation, the real opportunity is happening now.

*Estimates based on Augment Capital’s ATS platform data, using starting share price October 1st vs. the ending price on December 31st, 2024. Augment Markets is a marketplace operated by Augment Capital, LLC (member FINRA/SIPC), a registered broker-dealer.

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