AI Hype Just Hit Its Absurdity Threshold: Martinis and Nazi Comparisons
The gap between AI's believers and everyone else just became measurable in martinis and Nazi analogies.
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OpenAI Cries Broke While Dropping $50K on Caviar Parties
While AI companies cry poverty over compute costs, they're dropping five figures on backwards menus and caviar. Vercel threw a private dinner at an unopened SF restaurant featuring caviar, lobster, and mirrors required to read the menu, right after tripling valuation to $9 billion
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OpenAI Wants Private Equity Firms to Sell Its AI Agents
OpenAI is building a distribution network for AI agents through private equity, turning buyout firms into sales channels. OpenAI is negotiating with TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital, and Brookfield to form a joint venture that would deploy OpenAI tech across their portfolio companies
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Apple Tried to Buy This App, Failed, Then Poached Its Designer Instead
Apple tried to buy a beloved camera app, failed, then hired away the designer—and the messy breakup tells you everything about how big tech acquires talent in the age of impossible M&A.
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Trump Launches Memecoin Loyalty Program, Token Surges 50%
The President of the United States is now running a loyalty program for his memecoin holders, and the token pumped 50% on the news. $Trump memecoin surged over 50% after promoters announced a Mar-a-Lago VIP event for top 300 holders with promised presidential attendance
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Bill Miller IV's Fund Bets Bitcoin Follows the Same Path as Every Tech Revolution
Bill Miller IV manages a fund where conviction means putting real money where your thesis is, and right now that thesis includes bitcoin mirroring the adoption curve of technology itself.
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Pentagon Fears Anthropic Has a Kill Switch It Says Doesn't Exist
The Pentagon thinks Anthropic could flip a kill switch on military AI mid-war. Anthropic says that's technically impossible. Both can't be right. The Department of Defense claims Anthropic could sabotage AI models during wartime, allegedly through model manipulation or remote access
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ByteDance Kills Video AI Launch Hours Before Hollywood Lawsuit Storm
ByteDance just learned that making AI-generated Brad Pitt punch AI-generated Tom Cruise is a lawyer problem, not a tech problem. ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0, its hyperrealistic video generation model, after copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streaming platforms
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Super Micro Loses $20B as Smuggling Scandal Exposes AI Supply Chain Crisis
Super Micro's stock just lost a third of its value over a smuggling scandal, and the AI infrastructure boom suddenly has a compliance problem. Super Micro Computer, a major AI server provider, saw its stock crater by 33% after being linked to a smuggling scandal
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Pentagon Called Anthropic Partnership "Nearly Aligned" Days After Trump Killed It
The Pentagon told Anthropic they were "nearly aligned" one week after Trump killed their partnership, according to court filings that make the government's national security case look shakier than its own timeline.
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OpenCode Hits 47% on SWE-Bench While OpenAI Keeps Codex Closed
An open-source AI coding agent just landed on Hacker News and developers are paying attention. OpenCode is a new open-source AI coding agent that gained significant traction, hitting 268 points with 118 comments initially and climbing to 448 points with 203 comments as developers dug in
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Pentagon Kept Talking to Anthropic After Labeling It a Threat
The Pentagon almost cut a deal with Anthropic after the Defense Secretary publicly called them a supply chain risk. Anthropic filed a legal brief Friday showing DOD negotiations continued even after Secretary Hegseth's Feb. 27 supply chain risk declaration
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Pentagon Makes Palantir's Battlefield AI Permanent After Years of Quiet Testing
The Pentagon just made Palantir's AI a permanent fixture of American warfare. The US Defense Department designated Palantir's Maven AI system as a "program of record", cementing its role in combat operations beyond pilot status.
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SoftBank CEO Claims Largest Private Investment in Human History. Ohio Doubts It.
SoftBank just announced a $500 billion data center in Ohio, which would be the largest private infrastructure project in human history if it's real. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son claims the company is building a $500 billion AI data center campus in Ohio, powered by dedicated gas plants
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Amazon Builds Second Smartphone After First One Lost $170 Million
Amazon is apparently building another smartphone, because the first one went so well. Amazon is reportedly developing a new AI-powered mobile device slated for 2026, reviving a hardware category where it spectacularly failed a decade ago.
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Musk Defrauded Twitter Investors to Cut $13B From Purchase Price, Jury Rules
A jury just ruled that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors to shave billions off his purchase price, and the verdict lands four years after he already owns the company.
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CIA Bets on Secret AI Data Center Outside Northern Virginia
The CIA just placed a bet on where America's most sensitive AI workloads will run, and it's not Northern Virginia. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm, invested in Prometheus Hyperscale, an AI data center developer building campuses in Wyoming and Texas
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Alibaba and Tencent Lose $66 Billion in Single Day on AI Doubts
China's two tech giants just lost $66 billion because investors finally asked the question that matters: how do you make money from AI? Alibaba and Tencent shed $66 billion in market cap in 24 hours after failing to articulate profitable AI strategies
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SoftBank Bets $500B on Ohio Data Center While Microsoft Warns of GPU Shortages
SoftBank just announced a half-trillion-dollar data center in Ohio, and the number is so absurd it might actually mean something. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced plans for a $500 billion AI data center campus in Ohio, powered by dedicated gas plants
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Nvidia's CEO Says Every Company Needs This Strategy Now
Nvidia's CEO just told every company on Earth they need an "OpenClaw strategy," and if you don't know what that means, you're already behind. Jensen Huang keynoted Nvidia's GTC conference projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027 and declaring every company needs an "OpenClaw strategy"
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