SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
Fractal Analytics fell 5% in its Mumbai debut after cutting India's first AI IPO by 40%. The public market valued it at $1.6 billion, a third below its last private round.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI over Meta. The code was never the prize. The adoption graph was.
SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
Fractal Analytics fell 5% in its Mumbai debut after cutting India's first AI IPO by 40%. The public market valued it at $1.6 billion, a third below its last private round.
Six of xAI's 12 co-founders have left as Musk restructures the company into four divisions after the $250 billion SpaceX merger.
Amodei reveals Anthropic's $10B revenue, puts 50/50 odds on AI matching Nobel laureates within two years, and details the compute gamble facing AI labs.
MiniMax M2.5 scores within 0.6 points of Opus 4.6 at one-twentieth the price. The AI premium business model may not survive.
American AI dominance follows the dollar playbook: offer freely, create dependency, extract. Allies are already building exits.
Amazon will spend $200 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Azure is gaining faster, Nvidia captures 60% of the spend, and AWS employees prefer a competitor's model.
Meta and OpenAI bid billions for OpenClaw despite 1.5 million leaked API keys. AI value is shifting from models to agents.
Apple's worst trading day since April 2025 came after FTC pressure and Siri AI delays exposed cracks in Cook's political and product strategy.
Anthropic paid $8M+ for Super Bowl ads mocking ChatGPT's ad model. Sam Altman's 400-word rant shows exactly which nerve it hit.
Pactum CEO Kaspar Korjus, whose AI agents negotiate for Walmart and Rolls-Royce, warns Moltbook has created autonomous agents that can't be shut down.
France raided X's Paris offices with Europol on Tuesday and summoned Musk for questioning. Hours later, the UK and EU opened separate probes into Grok deepfakes.
Tim Cook and Andy Jassy attended a Melania doc screening while Alex Pretti was shot. 500+ tech workers demand action. Most CEOs stay silent.
MiniMax M2.5 scores within 0.6 points of Opus 4.6 at one-twentieth the price. The AI premium business model may not survive.
Meet Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic. His viral workflow runs 10 AI agents in parallel. He hasn't written code by hand in months.
Step-by-step tutorial to set up Clawdbot on a $5 VPS or old hardware. Copy-paste commands, WhatsApp integration, and security best practices.
Open-source Clawdbot turns a Mac Mini into a 24/7 AI employee for $2,400/year. What this means for workers in digital roles.
The Stanford team that invented generative agents raised $100 million to build AI simulations of real people. CVS and Wealthfront are already testing Simile's behavioral prediction platform.
Runway closed a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation and plans to pivot from AI video generation to building world models that simulate physical reality.
Micro1 surged from $4M to $200M revenue in 14 months supplying human experts to AI labs. Founder Ali Ansari, 25, now targets a $2.5B valuation.
A Duke University spinout claims its photonic chip can deliver 100x the performance of Nvidia's best GPU. $118 million in backing from Bill Gates and Microsoft says the physics works. But fabrication reality and a moving Nvidia target stand between Neurophos and its first paying customer.
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
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