The era of AI companies owning their compute stack just ended with a number most startups will never see in revenue. Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year deal with Akamai for computing power — the largest public AI infrastructure contract to date
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Google just gave its AI a face, but locked it behind an enterprise paywall—the consumer agent economy will have to wait. Google's Gemini 3.8 Live now features an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows facial expressions during real-time conversations, currently enterprise-only
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The company that spent two years positioning itself as the responsible AI alternative just became Washington's favorite punching bag.
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While AI labs worry about their models turning against humanity, protesters are calling out a more immediate threat: the power-hungry infrastructure keeping those models alive.
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OpenAI just crossed the threshold from "assistant that summarizes documents" to "agent that could replace your commute." GPT-6 Astra can now drive a car, marking the first time a frontier language model has demonstrated real-world physical control capability
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The AI winners retail investors couldn't buy are now on Ethereum, and the minimum check just dropped from seven figures to whatever you've got.
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When your top two customers are also the entire industry's best ticket to survival, you're either perfectly positioned or catastrophically exposed.
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The AI productivity bet isn't panning out, and companies are quietly admitting it by resurrecting the people they just killed off. Amazon is actively recruiting former employees, including those it laid off, offering shortened interview loops and direct outreach from AI division leadership
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Google just shipped a text-to-speech model while promising its flagship is "almost ready," which is exactly what a company says when it's still behind.
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The first AI lab to actually do wet lab science says it's already cracking problems humans couldn't — but only because humans are still running the show.
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AI just went from reading our biology textbooks to rewriting them. Anthropic's Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system comparable to Crispr after 950 agents processed 210 million tokens over 21 hours in the company's new wet lab
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Meta just gave your AI assistant a work email and screen time with you face-to-face. Meta is shipping major updates to Muse, including dedicated email addresses for agents, video chat capability, and computer control features in the Mac app
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While everyone watches OpenAI and Anthropic fight over whose model is smarter, the real money is quietly flooding into the companies that help everyone else actually deploy AI without hiring a team of ML engineers.
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China's brightest AI companies are under investigation for allegedly training their models on stolen conversations with a U.S. competitor, and the irony is thick enough to cut with a blade.
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The AI found something nobody can explain, which might be the most important part of the story. Anthropic's Claude AI autonomously discovered a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, marking the first time an AI agent independently identified a novel biological mechanism
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Meta just made its AI agent wearable — right as users discover it's reading messages they never gave it permission to touch.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith just admitted what the AI safety debate has been dancing around for months: trusting OpenAI and Anthropic to grade their own homework isn't a plan. Microsoft backs independent third-party AI safety evaluators, not just self-assessment from model builders
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The company that made AI safety cool just made it cheap enough to matter. Anthropic slashed AI model costs by 90% with Claude Opus 5, days before a potential trillion-dollar IPO that would mark one of the largest tech listings in history.
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The AI safety debate just got a framework, and it's designed to dodge the geopolitical minefield that's been paralyzing action.
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The two people building the most powerful AI systems in the world just walked into the UN Security Council to say they might not be able to control what comes next.
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