Evelio Silvera

Anthropic and Elon Musk both said this weekend they want to share the upside of what they've built, and only one of them actually let go of it. Anthropic is putting 5% of its shares, pending a stockholder vote, into a fund the company wholly owns, with up to 2% more for every 50% rise in value at its board's discretion, and it says the fund's structure and governance will be shared in the coming months. Musk's answer to that was one line: "I recommend giving the shares directly to the public." The next morning he said he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year, about $10.5 billion by CNBC's math, and President Trump says the shares will go through Trump Accounts, which Treasury has already opened in the names of nearly 70 million children. Musk reposted it. That's the whole difference. A fund you own, steered by a board you seat, giving on terms you'll announce later, is still your stock with a nicer name on the door. A share sitting in a child's own account belongs to that child, and nobody upstairs gets to change their mind about it. Every owner who has ever promised a team a piece of the pie stands at this same fork. If you can still steer it, pause it, or pick who gets it, you haven't shared the upside yet, you've just labeled it. Real giving is the kind you can't take back.

Citi and Bank of America are the latest banks to keep outside AI agents out of customer accounts, and sooner or later your customers are going to send their agents to you too. The banks call it safety, and part of it is. Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan says he wants to "put a human being in the loop," so you approve a payment before the money goes out. But the FT also reported that banks have told regulators they're worried agents will move idle cash into accounts that pay more. That's not just protection, it's a business deciding whether your helper is allowed to shop around for you. Walmart went the other way. It partnered with Meta's Muse because it wants to be where its customers are, and Meta put it bluntly: "Turning away a personal agent means turning away the customer behind it." So when an agent shows up at your business to book, buy, or ask for a quote, do you block it like the banks, or let it in on your terms? Your terms can be simple. Let agents handle the low-risk stuff like checking availability and pricing, have the customer approve anything that moves money, and put one person's name on it when an agent gets something wrong. Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes said the accountability has to sit with a human, and I think that's exactly right. Which jobs in your business would you let a customer's agent do without asking first? TechCrunch on who's letting agents in and who isn't: techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/th…