ByteDance Spending $30B on AI to Make TikTok Even More Addictive
The world's most addictive app is now spending nearly $30 billion a year to build the infrastructure that will make it even harder to look away.
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OpenAI's Board Fired Altman Over Slack Messages
The trial depositions are revealing that OpenAI's 2024 leadership crisis was less corporate governance, more group chat disaster.
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Anthropic Just Launched an AI App Store for Developers
Anthropic just opened the app store for AI coding assistants — and chose curation over chaos. Anthropic launched an official plugin directory for Claude Code, split between internal Anthropic plugins and vetted third-party submissions
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Goldman Sachs Gave 40,000 Employees AI Tools With Zero Usage Tracking
While your company debates whether to monitor every developer's AI prompt, Goldman just built a playbook for what actually scales. Goldman Sachs rolled out AI tools to its 12,000 engineers and built an in-house ChatGPT, but CIO Marco Argenti refuses to track individual usage metrics
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Microsoft Panic Emails Reveal OpenAI Threatened Amazon Defection Over Azure
The emails prove what everyone suspected: the AI gold rush was never about altruism — it was about locking down the supply chain before your competitor did.
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OpenAI Just Open-Sourced the Code That Makes AI Agents Production-Ready
OpenAI just open-sourced the scaffolding that turns code-writing agents from demos into production tools companies might actually trust.
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CoreWeave Burns $400M as AI Infrastructure Bet Fails to Convince Wall Street
The company building the backbone for AI is bleeding cash faster than it can convince Wall Street it matters. CoreWeave shares fell after the AI infrastructure company issued a weak forecast for Q2, raising questions about growth trajectory despite massive data center buildout
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Michigan's $20M OpenAI Bet Could Return $2B While Harvard Watched
A public university just turned $20 million into what could become the greatest endowment ROI in higher ed history, and the playbook was simpler than anyone wants to admit.
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Arm's AI Chip Sales Surge 40% While Nvidia Dominates Headlines
While everyone watches Nvidia's lead, Arm just proved you can win the AI infrastructure war without selling GPUs. Arm's AI chip sales jumped 40% as data centers adopt its architecture, offsetting a smartphone market slump
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Microsoft Revives Three Mile Island to Power AI Data Centers
The nuclear plant that defined America's energy fear is being reborn to feed our AI addiction. Three Mile Island is restarting mid-2027 to power Microsoft's AI workloads, marking the first time the infamous reactor site returns to service since the 1979 partial meltdown.
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Coinbase Goes Dark During AWS Crash, Exposing Crypto's Centralization Lie
The second-largest US crypto exchange just proved that decentralization is still mostly marketing. Coinbase suspended trading for hours Thursday after an AWS data center in Northern Virginia overheated, forcing markets into "cancel only" mode before resuming operations hours later.
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Musk Called Anthropic Evil Then Took Their $4 Billion Anyway
Turns out infrastructure beats ideology when you own the pipes and the competition needs somewhere to run their models.
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OpenAI's CEO Texted "I'm Scared" While Pushing His Team to Ship Faster
While the internet turns Altman's crisis texts into emo anthems, the actual courtroom testimony is building a case that OpenAI's CEO prioritized speed over safety—and maybe over honesty too.
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Microsoft Almost Killed OpenAI Before ChatGPT Changed Everything
Court filings just revealed that Microsoft nearly walked away from OpenAI before writing the checks that made ChatGPT possible. Emails from 2018 show Microsoft executives were deeply skeptical of OpenAI, but feared Amazon would scoop them up if they passed.
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AI Chatbots Quietly Send Your Private Conversations to Ad Giants
The companies building your AI copilot are also feeding your conversations to the same ad networks you thought you escaped by leaving social media. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity all share user data with third-party ad trackers, according to a new study
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Mira Murati's Deposition Confirms Altman Was Fired for Lying
The courtroom receipts say what the November 2023 press releases couldn't: OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman because he lied, and his own CTO just said so under oath.
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SpaceX Drops $55B on Chip Factory That Dwarfs Most National Defense Budgets
Musk just announced he's spending more money on a chip factory than most countries spend on their entire military, and he's doing it through a rocket company.
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Hyperscalers Hit $9 Trillion While Mapping Which Jobs Disappear Next
The hyperscalers are minting trillion-dollar valuations while quietly penciling in which human jobs won't survive the build-out. Hyperscalers are driving explosive earnings growth through trillion-dollar AI infrastructure spending, while Samsung just crossed $1T valuation on AI chip demand
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Microsoft Breaks 100% Clean Energy Vow as AI Devours Power Grid
The company that promised to run on 100% clean energy by 2025 is now quietly shopping for an exit from that pledge — and the reason is a box full of GPUs that won't wait for solar panels.
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Musk Tried Poaching Altman With Tesla Board Seat While Planning Rival AI Lab
The man suing OpenAI for betraying its nonprofit roots once tried to poach its CEO with a Tesla board seat and a rival AI lab. Messages from Shivon Zilis reveal 2017 plans for Musk to launch a competing AI lab, with Altman or DeepMind's Demis Hassabis as potential leaders
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