> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://adjacent.media/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Platforms Rewire the Money and the Rules, AI's Infrastructure Land Grab, Money, Metal, and Margins - URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-08-10-am/ - Published: 2026-08-10T10:04:43.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-10T10:04:43.000Z - Description: Monday opens with platforms rearranging their money pipes and courts rearranging accountability. X killed its creator payout scheme (again), a judge took Meta to task in blunt terms, and Anthropic keeps making Claude Code the default dev teammate. - Author: Jonathan Greene - Tags: #scan-am, #scan Monday opens with platforms rearranging their money pipes and courts rearranging accountability. X killed its creator payout scheme (again), a judge took Meta to task in blunt terms, and Anthropic keeps making Claude Code the default dev teammate. Elsewhere: AI compute diplomacy reaches Armenia, and Russia's biggest retailer is bleeding inventory to drone strikes. > **$5B** — That's how much inventory Russia's Wildberries has lost to Ukrainian strikes, on top of $10B+ owed to Russian banks. *(Wall Street Journal)* --- ### Connected World #### [X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7\. The replacement only pays for original content.](https://thenextweb.com/news/x-original-content-rewards-program-revenue-sharing-ends?ref=adjacent.media) Ad-revenue splits for engagement-bait are out; paying only for "original content" is an admission the old model got gamed into oblivion. *(The Next Web)* #### [X replaces its revenue-sharing program with 'Original Content Rewards'](https://www.theverge.com/tech/977143/x-revenue-sharing-original-content-rewards?ref=adjacent.media) Buried in the fine print: X now also wants to monetize recycled handles — extracting value from accounts on the way out too. *(The Verge)* #### [Monopoly Round-Up: A Judge Condemns Facebook for Enabling Mass Sexual Exploitation of Kids](https://open.substack.com/pub/mattstoller/p/monopoly-round-up-the-biggest-sexual) Stoller's read on a ruling that's unusually blunt for a federal court — and a reminder that antitrust cases keep surfacing the ugliest version of "engagement." *(Matt Stoller)* #### [Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.](https://thenextweb.com/news/hong-kong-under-16-social-media-ban-educators-lawmakers?ref=adjacent.media) Same fight as Australia and the EU, different venue — and the same government shrug so far. *(The Next Web)* #### [Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services](https://www.ft.com/content/0a6249a2-e28b-4e58-ab2d-2b8615b832dc?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall) A law with "cybersecurity" in the name that critics say is really a content-control lever. *(Financial Times)* ### Machines & Minds #### [Armenia just opened the region's biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.](https://thenextweb.com/news/firebird-armenia-ai-factory-export-licence-compute-diplomacy?ref=adjacent.media) Compute is now foreign policy — this facility exists only because the US government said it could. *(The Next Web)* #### [Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code, starting Aug. 14](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/?ref=adjacent.media) Anthropic is betting its safety net is good enough to let agents run unsupervised by default — a meaningful trust escalation. *(Simon Willison)* #### [Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/08/claude-code-adds-cross-session-messaging/?ref=adjacent.media) Multiple coding agents now talk to each other directly — the orchestration layer for AI teams is assembling itself. *(MacRumors)* #### [5 Rules for Building AI Agents That Work in Production](https://creatoreconomy.so/p/5-rules-for-building-ai-agents-in-production-linear-nan-jacob?ref=adjacent.media) Linear's internal agent playbook, from a $1.25B company that's actually shipped one at scale rather than just demoed it. *(The Creator Economy)* ### Connected World #### [Data Insight: Russia's Wildberries owes $10B+ in loans and has lost up to $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks](https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/the-wild-history-of-the-russian-online-retail-giant-being-bombarded-by-ukraine-ea0bc57d?st=gNR142&reflink=desktopwebshare%5Fpermalink&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall) A retail giant squeezed by war and debt simultaneously — a rare case where the balance sheet and the battlefield are the same story. *(WSJ)* #### [Cape Town's Moment raises $22M Series A to scale African payments](https://fintech.global/2026/08/04/moment-closes-22m-round-to-scale-african-payments/?ref=adjacent.media) Total funding now $55M — steady proof that African B2B fintech infrastructure is still attracting real capital. *(FinTech Global)* #### [iPhone 17 faces potential price hike before iPhone 18 Pro launch](https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/08/iphone-17-faces-an-early-price-rise-a-month-before-iphone-18-pro-launch?utm%5Fsource=rss) Memory costs are getting passed to customers a month before the new flagship even arrives — a transparent move, if an unflattering one. *(AppleInsider)* ### Connected World #### [Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/08/gps-jamming-medevac-crash.html?ref=adjacent.media) A sobering one to end on: a medevac crash tied to GPS jamming during a training exercise — a reminder that electronic warfare drills have real-world consequences. *(Boing Boing)* #### [This BMW-Backed Solar EV Makes More Energy Than It Uses](https://www.bmwblog.com/2026/08/08/bmw-backed-solar-ev-makes-more-energy-than-it-uses/?ref=adjacent.media) BMW and Clemson built a car that's a net energy exporter — still a prototype, but a direct rebuttal to "solar cars don't work." *(BMWBLOG)*