Axios

Please don't film that squat — your hot yoga instructor is begging.

Why it matters: In this era of social media, even the most routine moments have become content to share on TikTok or Instagram.

Spending on artificial intelligence isn't slowing, and tariffs — so far — aren't taking a huge toll on business, Big Tech told us this week.

Why it matters: A slew of tech giants just delivered solid earnings, providing at least some answers to burning questions about how the industry is faring in the midst of President Trump's trade war.

Venture capitalists are in an odd spot: Financially motivated to pump billions of dollars into AI startups that could hasten their own extinction.

• But not everyone is fretting propagation of the sector.

Driving the news: Marc Andreessen said on a recent podcast that he could envision venture capital being "one of the last remaining fields that people are actually doing."

If the cybersecurity sector and government officials learned anything this week in San Francisco, it's that they're stuck with one another.

• But their uneasy marriage isn't guaranteed to stay intact.

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are pitching a vision of AI chatbots as an extension of your friend network and a potential solution to the "loneliness epidemic."

Why it matters: Meta's approach to AI raises the broader question of just whose interest chatbots are serving — especially when the bot has access to the details of your life and the company's business depends on constantly boosting the time you spend with it.