OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and GitHub all launched flat subscriptions, then walked them back once power users cost more than they paid. That convergence is the real story.
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A WIRED investigation found Meta contractors sent tens of thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts to competitor chatbots without those companies' knowledge.
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I don't think large language models are a path to general intelligence, and I think the architecture itself is the reason why. This is my case for that, not a settled fact.
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I think the AI industry stopped being about AI a while ago and started being about keeping a very large story alive long enough to cash out. Here's the math that makes me think that.
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Qualcomm is acquiring software startup Modular in an all-stock deal aimed squarely at breaking developers' dependence on Nvidia's CUDA platform.
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Google's emissions are up 80% against its own 2030 zero pledge, and the AI industry is turning to on-site gas plants because renewables can't move at capex speed.
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Anthropic's new model lands near-frontier benchmarks at a fraction of the price. That pricing move matters more than the scores.
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From outsourced AI product reviews to fully synthetic local news networks, each incident has been treated as isolated. Lined up in order, they show a clear progression.
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The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a joint warning that frontier AI models capable of dramatically escalating cyberattacks are close to public availability.
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SpaceX will supply $6.3 billion in compute to startup Reflection AI from its Colossus 2 data center, its fourth such deal in months.
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President Lee Jae-myung unveiled a decade-long, corporate-funded plan to turn southwest Korea into a global semiconductor and AI data center hub.
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AI capex drove roughly 75% of US GDP growth in Q1 2026, while 95% of enterprise AI pilots show no measurable financial return. Those two facts describe different phases of the same cycle.
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Tech layoffs and AI capex are rising together, not trading off against each other. That pattern undercuts the story companies are telling about why they're cutting staff.
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