Good morning. It’s here! Fortune Brainstorm Tech begins in Aspen this morning.
On the agenda for Day 1 of our 25th anniversary bash: Boris Cherny of Anthropic, JB Straubel of Redwood Materials, Dan Clancy of Twitch, Grant LaFontaine of Whatnot, Ned Koh of Aaru, Daniela Braga of Defined.ai, Timothée Lacroix of Mistral, Anjali Sud of Tubi, Meg Whitman, Brian Schimpf of Anduril, Robert Kyncl of Warner Music, the artist Grimes, and so many more.Peep the full program here; watch the livestream here.
Tomorrow, I’ll switch up the format of this newsletter to share what’s going on at Brainstorm. For now, though, today’s tech news is below. —Andrew Nusca
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Former AI czar calls proposal for gov’t equity a ‘stupidity tax’David Sacks, then the White House Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, at the White House on September 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
