The cheap AI darling just learned an expensive lesson: you can't scale on duct tape and prayers. DeepSeek's chatbot went down for over seven hours, the longest outage since the Chinese AI lab shocked the world with its cost-efficient model in January 2025.
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OpenAI killed Sora after six months, and if you think it was about data collection, you're not asking the right questions. OpenAI shut down Sora, its video-generation tool, just six months post-launch, sparking immediate speculation about user data harvesting
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The music industry just chose sides in the AI war, and it's not the one you think. Warner Music partnered with Suno to offer AI likenesses of its artists while record labels simultaneously sue Suno for allegedly ripping songs from YouTube.
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Tencent just threw $5.2 billion at AI agents, and it's not because they're feeling generous. Tencent plans to more than double AI spending to $5.2 billion in 2026, riding 13% sales growth from its gaming business
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OpenAI is reading your browser's internal state before you can type a single character in ChatGPT. A developer reverse-engineered ChatGPT's anti-bot code and found OpenAI uses Cloudflare's Turnstile to scan React component state, DOM elements, and browser internals before allowing user input
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Prediction markets were supposed to be the elegant solution to information aggregation, but state attorneys general just called them slot machines with better PR. Washington state sued Kalshi, calling it illegal gambling. Arizona filed similar charges weeks earlier.
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Bluesky just proved the protocol matters more than the platform. Bluesky launched Attie, an AI assistant powered by Claude that lets users build custom algorithmic feeds using natural language prompts
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Midjourney crossed $200 million in revenue in 2023 with zero venture capital, and somehow that's the *least* interesting part of this story. Midjourney's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200 million in 2023 and has grown since, according to CEO David Holz. The company is profitable.
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OpenAI just doubled down on becoming the Pentagon's preferred AI vendor, and Microsoft should be sweating. OpenAI signed a partnership with AWS to sell AI systems to the U.S. government for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond last month's Pentagon deal
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A 60-year-old developer just watched AI delete the best part of his job, and he's not mad about it, he's mourning.
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AI labs are hiring improv actors to teach models how to feel, because apparently reading the internet wasn't enough to learn empathy.
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SpaceX's IPO hype is lifting the stocks of the very companies it's built to crush. Rocket Lab and AST SpaceMobile shares are surging on SpaceX IPO anticipation, despite directly competing with SpaceX in launch and satellite internet.
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Amazon just bought a humanoid robot company, and the $50,000 price tag tells you everything about where warehouse automation is headed. Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, a New York startup making humanoid robots called Sprout that walk, manipulate objects, and cost $50,000 per unit
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The smartest AI systems on Earth can write code, beat grandmasters at chess, and pass the bar exam, but they can't figure out how to play Pokemon.
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OpenAI just admitted it's been building too many things that don't matter. OpenAI exec Fidji Simo told staff the company needs to refocus on business customers and "cut down on side quests", signaling a strategic retreat from consumer product sprawl
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The Pentagon is building secure sandboxes for AI companies to train on classified data, which means your government is about to have agent capabilities you can't audit.
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Donald Knuth posed a problem to Claude, and now LLMs have closed the loop by solving it with proof assistants. Donald Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem has been fully solved using LLMs working with proof assistants, marking a milestone in AI-assisted mathematical reasoning
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Amazon just bought a humanoid robotics startup, and the price point tells you everything about where this market is heading. Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, maker of the $50,000 Sprout humanoid robot, and plans to keep selling it
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Anthropic just gave Claude Code permission to act without asking first, and the leash they kept on it tells you everything about where agent autonomy is actually heading. Anthropic launched "auto mode" for Claude Code, letting the AI execute multi-step coding tasks with fewer human approvals
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A federal judge just ruled that Elon Musk can be sued for allegedly exercising executive power he wasn't legally authorized to wield during his stint as a Trump adviser.
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