OpenAI began testing ads in free-tier ChatGPT less than 24 hours after Anthropic aired Super Bowl parody spots mocking the move. Both companies released frontier coding models the same week.
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.
Steve Yegge's Golden Age framework, validated by Google and Amazon history, starts a clock on the very company he celebrates. Anthropic at 4,000 employees is crossing every threshold.
OpenAI began testing ads in free-tier ChatGPT less than 24 hours after Anthropic aired Super Bowl parody spots mocking the move. Both companies released frontier coding models the same week.
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.
Steve Yegge's Golden Age framework, validated by Google and Amazon history, starts a clock on the very company he celebrates. Anthropic at 4,000 employees is crossing every threshold.
Local opposition halted $98 billion in U.S. data center projects in Q2 2025. With 50+ groups active in 17 states, zoning is now AI's binding constraint.
EU declares TikTok's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm illegal under Digital Services Act, orders platform to overhaul core design or face fines up to $2.1 billion.
GPT-5.3-Codex tops coding benchmarks but ships without API access or Windows support. Claude Opus 4.6 counters with agent teams and 1M-token context.
Anthropic's safety-obsessed culture ships faster than OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. New Opus 4.6 model and a $300 billion stock selloff prove it.
Apple tried to build its own AI. It failed. Now it's paying Google $1 billion a year to license Gemini while pretending the arrangement is strategic. The company that controlled every layer of the stack is now renting the most important one.
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Within 72 hours of publishing its AI adoption report, Microsoft's messaging saturated LinkedIn. The coordination wasn't secret—it was architectural. When you own the platform, distribution is just moving furniture between rooms.
Microsoft says one in six people now use AI. The methodology: counting clicks on Microsoft products. The US ranks 24th despite hosting every major AI lab. South Korea's surge? A viral selfie filter. The company selling AI infrastructure has appointed itself scorekeeper of AI adoption.
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.
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.
While OpenAI and Anthropic chase AGI, a wave of specialized AI tools hit the market solving problems the big labs ignored. Ten standouts from late 2025 reveal where the real value is being built: integrations, workflows, and trust.
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.
Europe raised $58B in venture funding in 2025, with AI leading for the first time. But US AI startups raised 9x more. Analysis of the widening gap.
Anthropic and xAI refugees raised $480M at a $4.5B valuation for a startup that rejects autonomous AI. Humans& bets the future isn't bots working alone. It's bots helping people work together.
Amjad Masad built a $3 billion company that lets anyone publish iOS apps by typing a sentence. Revenue grew 15x. But security researchers found vibe-coded apps ship with critical vulnerabilities. The friction he removed wasn't just bureaucracy.
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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