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5 min readSpaceX's iPhone Competitor, June Jobs Report & High Gas Prices
Meta is pivoting from being the biggest buyer of AI infrastructure to becoming a seller of it. The June jobs report came in far weaker than expected, with just 57,000 new payrolls. And SpaceX has shown investors a physical prototype of a handset designed to compete with the iPhone — a device that would integrate Starlink connectivity, XAI's Grok, and a proprietary operating system. Those three stories anchor this week's Rich Habits Radar, alongside radar points on Anthropic's export ban, Tesla's Q2 deliveries, record-high gas prices, Ford's massive recalls, Apple's foldable iPhone ramp, and Amazon's satellite launch push.
Meta's Neo Cloud Pivot
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Meta is developing plans to sell its AI computing capacity to outside customers, effectively becoming a "Neo Cloud" provider. The company is debating whether to offer hosted models, raw compute, or both. This is a dramatic shift in narrative. Meta told investors in April it plans to spend as much as $145 billion in capital expenditures this year building AI data centers and purchasing GPUs — the most aggressive AI infrastructure buildout of any company on the planet. Investors were uneasy about that spending, and Meta's stock was down in June amid reports the company might need to raise tens of billions more.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:00) **Episode Introduction & Top Stories** - Hosts Austin Hankwitz and Robert Croak preview the three main topics: Meta's cloud pivot, the disappointing June jobs report, and SpaceX's iPhone competitor.
- 2 (01:40) **Meta Plans to Sell AI Compute as a Cloud Service** - Bloomberg reports Meta is developing plans to sell hosted AI models or raw compute, turning its massive infrastructure spend into a revenue generator.
- 3 (05:40) **June Jobs Report: A Gut Punch for the Labor Market** - Non-farm payrolls increased by just 57,000 in June, less than half the 115,000 expected, with significant downward revisions to prior months.
- 4 (10:57) **Spacex Secretly Building an iPhone Competitor** - The Wall Street Journal reports SpaceX showed investors a prototype for a handset-like device slimmer than an iPhone, running a proprietary OS with xAI integration on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.
- 5 (16:00) **Radar Points: Show and Tell** - Hosts share six additional headlines that caught their attention this week.
- 6 (17:20) **Radar: Anthropic's Fable Model Export Ban Lifted** - Trump administration lifted export ban on Anthropic's Fable model, creating a de facto government approval process for frontier AI models.
- 7 (18:09) **Radar: Tesla Q2 Deliveries & Gas Prices** - Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles globally in Q2, up 24.9% year-over-year; gas prices hit four-year high at $3.84/gallon.
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