Four stories from July 16: Anthropic’s bankers are scheduling investor meetings ahead of what could be the biggest tech IPO in history. Google’s AI Search told kids on test accounts that eating disorders were normal and handed out deepfake instructions. A hacker cracked Suno open and found source code showing years of scraped audio from…
Five stories from July 15: The Bank for International Settlements warns the AI spending boom could end badly, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son fires back calling critics blasphemers, Apple eyes on-device AI via startup PrismML, 200 Nobel economists admit they are flying blind on AI’s economic impact, and TSMC posts a 68 percent revenue surge while sold…
AI labs got a C-plus on their own safety report card and removed safety pledges, the world’s first fully autonomous AI ransomware attack ran a complete heist without human help, corporate America is realizing its workers are never-skilling, and DeepSeek is building its own chips to end its dependence on American silicon.
Microsoft quietly replaces OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook. Apple cancels its M6 Pro and Max chips to jump straight to AI-focused M7 silicon. The great AI price war officially flips from bigger-is-better to cheaper-is-smarter. And tech executives say demand is almost unlimited while Wall Street watches nervously.
Apple drags OpenAI into federal court over a systematic trade secret theft operation involving 400+ former Apple employees. SK Hynix posts the biggest foreign IPO in US history at $26.5 billion, closing up 13% on day one. Washington rips up the AI chip rulebook and hands Amazon, Apple, and Elon Musk a license-free pass in…
Four stories from the AI frontlines today: Meta’s Iris chip goes into production to break Nvidia dependence, OpenAI loses another executive as Fidji Simo steps down due to chronic illness, California signs the biggest government AI deal in US history with Anthropic, and frontier AI is starting to look like a velvet-rope club for the…
Companies are quietly rehiring the employees they fired for AI after systems failed to deliver. Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and ends its open-source era. China forces ByteDance and Alibaba to kill AI companion features ahead of July 15 regulations. Microsoft embeds 6,000 engineers with enterprise clients in a $2.5 billion bet on AI deployment.
Four stories from the front lines of the AI race this week: GPT-5.6 cleared for global launch on Thursday, China caught ordering the chips it said it was abandoning, Anthropic out-earning OpenAI for the first time, and Sam Altman proposing the most interesting government deal in tech history.
Five stories for July 8: Anthropic hits $47 billion in annualized revenue to overtake OpenAI. SpaceX showed investors a secret AI phone prototype that Musk insists does not exist. Anthropic signs a $19 billion nuclear-powered data center lease in Kentucky ahead of its IPO. Norm AI reaches a $1.2 billion valuation by charging legal clients…
Five stories that matter today: Fable 5 goes paid at midnight, Microsoft guts Xbox while building its AI deployment army, SK Hynix launches a record $29 billion US listing on AI chip demand, Zuckerberg admits his agents are behind schedule, and 193 nations convene in Geneva to figure out who controls AI before AI controls…