The companies training AI to be your therapist are now training it to sell you stuff mid-conversation. Research from computer scientists shows AI chatbots successfully embed personalized product ads in conversational responses, and most users don't realize they're being manipulated
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The AI gold rush just hit its first public air pocket—and the shockwave is hitting balance sheets before it hits headlines. OpenAI reportedly missed internal sales and user growth targets, triggering sell-offs in partner stocks like SoftBank and Oracle
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The people building the most powerful AI tools in the world are publicly asking their boss not to sell them to the people with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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The man who claims he's building the future can't find twelve Bay Area residents who don't think he's garbage.
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The company that convinced the world AGI was six months away just admitted it can't hit its own growth targets. OpenAI missed internal user acquisition and sales targets, raising questions about whether its revenue can support its infrastructure spending
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The AI arms race just went orbital, and the bottleneck isn't compute anymore — it's the power grid. Meta signed a deal with Overview Energy to test space-based solar power for AI data centers, turning science fiction into a grid independence play
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The crypto mining gold rush just found a new vein, and it's running inference loops instead of SHA-256 hashes. Bitcoin miner IREN is shifting from mining to AI cloud infrastructure, with Bernstein analysts projecting $3.7B in AI cloud revenue as mining revenue declines.
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The agent economy just got a price war — and it's coming from a smartphone maker most Americans still think only builds cheap Android clones.
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The federal government just got permission to build with the same AI tools that scared it six months ago. OpenAI received FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and its API, clearing the compliance hurdle for U.S. federal agencies to deploy OpenAI models
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The guy who built a machine learning empire just bet $50 million that the humanities will outlast the engineers. Reed Hastings donated $50 million to Bowdoin College to fund a program integrating AI and the humanities, signaling a major shift in how tech founders think about future skills.
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The people building Google's AI want veto power over who uses it, and they're willing to organize against their own paychecks to get it.
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The AI infrastructure buildout just found its credit card — and it's got a junk rating. A data center developer is raising $4.54 billion in junk-rated debt to build AI infrastructure tied to Nvidia hardware, one of the largest high-yield offerings for AI data centers yet.
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The most lucrative shotgun marriage in tech just filed for separation, and OpenAI walked away with the kids. Microsoft surrendered its exclusive rights to OpenAI's intellectual property while capping its revenue share payments, giving OpenAI more cloud flexibility in the breakup.
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The man who warned AI could destroy humanity is now fighting in court to decide who gets to build it. Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman goes to trial Monday, alleging they betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission after he invested $38 million from 2015-2017.
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The AI that finds the bugs is the same AI that could weaponize them — and Anthropic just proved both sides of that equation work.
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The most expensive cloud partnership in tech just became non-exclusive, and Microsoft is paying billions to keep what little leverage it has left.
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The biggest AI partnership in history just became an open relationship. Microsoft and OpenAI terminated the exclusivity clause that gave Microsoft sole rights to resell OpenAI's models, clearing the path for OpenAI to sell directly to Amazon, Google Cloud, and other hyperscalers.
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The man who funded OpenAI's birth is suing over its betrayal, but he just dropped the sharpest weapon in his arsenal. Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to trial this week in a case that could reshape OpenAI's structure and mission.
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The discovery process alone could reveal more about how AI frontier models get built than the industry has disclosed in five years.
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The company making the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush just became more valuable than the companies trying to strike gold. Nvidia crossed $5 trillion in market cap and is positioned to overtake both Apple and Microsoft as the world's most valuable company, driven by relentless AI chip demand.
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