OpenAI is selling ads it can't measure, and advertisers are paying for vibes. OpenAI's first ChatGPT advertisers say they can't prove the ads work, with agency execs reporting zero measurable business outcomes from early campaigns.
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A filmmaker went looking for creative tools and found a eugenics fan club instead. Director Valerie Veatch dove into OpenAI's Sora community in 2024 expecting to find artists, found casual racism and sexism baked into the outputs and normalized by the users
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The gap between AI's believers and everyone else just became measurable in martinis and Nazi analogies.
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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 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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An OG Ethereum whale just bet $19.5 million that crypto winter is over. Early Ethereum investor thomasg.eth deployed $19.5M this week to rebuild his ETH position after liquidations Timing aligns with Fundstrat's Tom Lee declaring crypto winter finished
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DuckDuckGo just made privacy-first AI chatbot access real, and it changes the calculus for anyone who's been queasy about feeding their prompts to Big Tech's data vacuum.
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AI developers are ignoring crypto, but their agents will run on stablecoins whether they like it or not. Stablecoin experts argue programmable crypto is the only viable rail for autonomous AI agents making micro-transactions, even as AI developers remain skeptical of crypto broadly
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An OG Ethereum whale just dropped $19.5 million back into ETH, and the timing tells you everything about where smart money thinks we are in the cycle. Early Ethereum participant thomasg.eth bought $19.5 million in ETH this week, rebuilding a position after previous exits
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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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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 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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BNB Chain just became the biggest home for AI agents on any blockchain, and if you're still watching Ethereum and Base, you're looking at last year's map.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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