ByteDance Spending $30B on AI to Make TikTok Even More Addictive
The world's most addictive app is now spending nearly $30 billion a year to build the infrastructure that will make it even harder to look away.
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Yann LeCun: Tech CEOs Hyping AI Job Loss Are Destroying Kids' Futures
The most cited AI researcher alive thinks the people running AI companies are accidentally creating a generation of kids who've given up before they've started.
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Nanoleaf Abandons Smart Lights for Robots That Follow You Home
The lighting company that turned walls into art just admitted the smart home is boring — and thinks the cure involves robots that follow you around. Nanoleaf is pivoting from smart lighting to "wellness, robotics, and AI," teasing products built around embodied AI
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OpenAI Rewrites Privacy Law Before Regulators Can Stop Them
OpenAI just published the playbook for how AI companies will navigate the next decade of privacy regulation—and it's less about defense, more about redefining what "consent" means when your chatbot is always learning.
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OpenAI's Board Fired Altman Over Slack Messages
The trial depositions are revealing that OpenAI's 2024 leadership crisis was less corporate governance, more group chat disaster.
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Anthropic Just Launched an AI App Store for Developers
Anthropic just opened the app store for AI coding assistants — and chose curation over chaos. Anthropic launched an official plugin directory for Claude Code, split between internal Anthropic plugins and vetted third-party submissions
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Goldman Sachs Gave 40,000 Employees AI Tools With Zero Usage Tracking
While your company debates whether to monitor every developer's AI prompt, Goldman just built a playbook for what actually scales. Goldman Sachs rolled out AI tools to its 12,000 engineers and built an in-house ChatGPT, but CIO Marco Argenti refuses to track individual usage metrics
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SAP Just Spent $1B on a Startup Nobody's Heard Of
The enterprise AI land grab isn't a land grab at all—it's a talent grab disguised as M&A. SAP dropped $1B on German AI startup Prior Labs while Anthropic and OpenAI announced enterprise-focused joint ventures—signaling that if you're building enterprise AI tools, you're either buying or being bought
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Microsoft Panic Emails Reveal OpenAI Threatened Amazon Defection Over Azure
The emails prove what everyone suspected: the AI gold rush was never about altruism — it was about locking down the supply chain before your competitor did.
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OpenAI Just Open-Sourced the Code That Makes AI Agents Production-Ready
OpenAI just open-sourced the scaffolding that turns code-writing agents from demos into production tools companies might actually trust.
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Musk Settles SEC Twitter Fight for Fraction of Platform's Price
When the richest man on the planet settles a disclosure fight for less than 0.001% of what he paid for the company, someone should probably ask questions.
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Shadow AI is now a bigger attack surface than cloud storage ever was
The no-code revolution just gave every product manager the power to build what IT would've said no to, and nobody bothered to build the firewall.
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Virginia Kills Billion-Dollar Data Center Over Missed Newspaper Ad
The AI infrastructure gold rush just learned an expensive lesson: in Virginia, you can lose a billion-dollar data center project because someone forgot to run a legal notice in the right newspaper.
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Anthropic Hit $30B Revenue After 80x Growth It Didn't Plan For
The company that plans for 10x growth and gets 80x instead has a different kind of problem than most AI startups—too much demand, not enough compute.
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CoreWeave Burns $400M as AI Infrastructure Bet Fails to Convince Wall Street
The company building the backbone for AI is bleeding cash faster than it can convince Wall Street it matters. CoreWeave shares fell after the AI infrastructure company issued a weak forecast for Q2, raising questions about growth trajectory despite massive data center buildout
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Anthropic Spends $1.8B on Akamai After $7.3B Raise
The AI lab that raised $7.3 billion in 2024 is now spending $1.8 billion with a CDN company, and that tells you everything about where the compute bottleneck really is. Anthropic signed a $1.8 billion cloud computing deal with Akamai to handle AI inference demand
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Thiel Takes Steroids to Wall Street With Performance-Drug Olympics
Peter Thiel just took the performance-enhancement debate out of the shadows and onto the NYSE. Enhanced Games, an Olympics competitor allowing performance-enhancing drugs, went public via SPAC at a $1.2B valuation with backing from Peter Thiel and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan
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Michigan's $20M OpenAI Bet Could Return $2B While Harvard Watched
A public university just turned $20 million into what could become the greatest endowment ROI in higher ed history, and the playbook was simpler than anyone wants to admit.
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Isomorphic Labs Hits $5B Valuation With Zero Drugs in Development
The AlphaFold company is about to become one of the most valuable drug discovery startups in history without a single drug on the market. Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind's AI drug discovery spinout, is raising over $2 billion in what would be one of the largest biotech AI rounds ever
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Arm's AI Chip Sales Surge 40% While Nvidia Dominates Headlines
While everyone watches Nvidia's lead, Arm just proved you can win the AI infrastructure war without selling GPUs. Arm's AI chip sales jumped 40% as data centers adopt its architecture, offsetting a smartphone market slump
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