AI

An anonymous hand at a dark desk in front of a monitor showing a grid of short-form video thumbnails and rising view counts.

David Hwang and Alex Yee Built an AI That Decides What Creators Post. It Says It Made 2 Billion Views in Two Months.

A two-person Y Combinator startup is selling taste, cadence and distribution as software to creators with 72 million followers. Every number is self-reported.

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Nearly 90% of Harvard Faculty Say They've Received AI-Written Work. Your Certificate Has the Same Problem.

Harvard's own faculty can no longer tell who did the homework — and that lands in the same month platforms started selling "verified capability."

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Tools

Whop Says Its Sellers Average $8,413 a Month. The Median Product Makes $74.

One platform, two true numbers. The gap between them is the most useful thing a course creator can learn this week.

A dark desk setup with a glowing dashboard showing a large average earnings figure next to a much smaller median figure and a long-tail revenue curve.

OpenAI Is Now Teaching the Course Inside the Product. It's Free, and It Wants 10 Million Graduates.

The model provider just became the instructor: free courses, employer-backed badges, a jobs platform at the end, and no checkout page anywhere.