AI Agents Fail 65% of Database Queries Until They Read the Logs
The gap between "point the AI at your data warehouse" and "the AI actually gets the right answer" just got a number: 65% failure rate.
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Wayve Ditches Self-Driving to Build Brains for All Robots
While Cruise and Waymo fight over San Francisco intersections, Wayve just pivoted from selling self-driving software to building the physics engine for general-purpose robots.
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Non-Coders Are Building Apps Silicon Valley Will Never Make
The real story isn't that normies are building apps with AI — it's that they're solving problems too niche for any startup to care about.
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AI Makes Humans Worse at Thinking, New Research Suggests
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Asian AI Companies Brace for $100B Silicon Valley Cash Flood
The cash from OpenAI and SpaceX IPOs isn't staying in Silicon Valley. Asian AI supply chain companies are becoming prime targets for investors flush with cash from the wave of US tech IPOs, particularly SpaceX and OpenAI
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Samsung Ships Next-Gen AI Memory Before SK Hynix Can Catch Up
The chip war just opened a new front, and Samsung fired first. Samsung started shipping samples of HBM4, the most advanced AI memory chip, beating SK Hynix and Micron to market
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Utah Slams Brakes on O'Leary's $3B Data Center Over Water Crisis
When locals riot over water and a governor writes new rules mid-construction, you're watching the physical limits of the AI buildout crash into politics in real time.
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OpenRouter's $113M Series B Values API Plumbing Over Some AI Models
The API layer just became more valuable than some of the models it routes to. OpenRouter closed a $113M Series B, making the AI model routing platform one of the most heavily funded infrastructure plays in the agent economy.
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Anthropic's Shareholder Crackdown Collapses Under 48 Hours of Pressure
When AI's most cautious lab tries to control who can trade its shares, the market reminds them who's really in charge. Anthropic cut its "unauthorized platforms" list from 10 to 5 after investor backlash and public pushback from named companies
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Japan's Largest Bank Goes All-In on OpenAI While Rivals Hesitate
Japan's largest bank just told every other financial institution how far behind they are. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan's largest bank with $3 trillion in assets, is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise across its 120,000 employees to become what they're calling "AI-native"
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SoftBank Drops $87B on Europe While Silicon Valley Fights Over Scraps
SoftBank is betting $87 billion that Europe's AI infrastructure gap is about to become someone else's profit center. SoftBank is planning to invest up to €75 billion ($87 billion) in AI data centers in France, according to reports from La Tribune and the Financial Times
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MetaTrader Just Gave ChatGPT Direct Access to $7.5 Trillion Forex Markets
The AI agents are coming for the forex market, and they're bringing your conversational interface with them. A new Model Context Protocol server lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT execute trades on MetaTrader 5 using natural language commands.
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Starbucks Killed Its AI Barista After It Hallucinated Fake Inventory
The world's biggest coffee chain just gave us the clearest lesson yet in what breaks when you deploy an agent before it's ready. Starbucks quietly pulled its AI inventory agent after just months in production, following barista complaints about hallucinated stock counts and workflow slowdowns
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Ex-Meta Engineer Makes $120K/Month Selling 200-Year-Old Maps Online
While VCs chase the next LLM wrapper, one founder is printing money with HTML and a passion project about maps from 1823. Craig Campbell, ex-Meta engineer, turned down blank-check AI funding to build Past Maps, a website selling access to historical maps
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Meta Tests $12 Subscriptions Across 3 Billion Users Without Saying Why
Meta just launched what might be the world's largest subscription beta test — not for revenue, but for permission. Meta is rolling out consumer subscriptions across Instagram ($3.99/mo), Facebook ($3.99/mo), and WhatsApp ($2.99/mo) for "fun features" like custom profiles and super reactions.
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The Team That Bankrupted ISIS Just Dropped an AI Control Plan That Skips the UN
The people who defunded terrorists with spreadsheets think they can do the same for rogue AI — and they might be the only ones with a plan that doesn't require every nation to agree first.
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Fed Says AI Won't Take Economist Jobs While Missing Inflation Calls
Central bankers are talking about AI like it's someone else's problem while inflation runs hot and productivity gains remain theoretical. Fed officials gathered in Iceland to discuss AI's economic impact, with New York Fed President John Williams joking that economists' jobs are safe from automation
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IBM and Oracle Add $1.7 Trillion Selling the Same Hardware They Always Did
The companies left for dead after the dot-com crash just added $1.7 trillion in market value by doing what they always did—selling hardware—just to different buyers.
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SpaceX IPO: Elon Musk Cashes Out While Retail Gets the Bill
When the richest man alive needs your money to keep his rocket company flying, you're not getting a deal—you're getting used. SpaceX filed to go public with a rumored $1 trillion valuation despite losing nearly $5 billion last year, claiming a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion
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Perplexity Gives Every Employee a Mac Mini to Run AI Agents 24/7
The real story isn't the gifting — it's that AI agents need always-on hardware, and Big Tech's smallest box just became the bridge between cloud AI and local compute.
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