OpenAI Killed the First AI Feature Film Days Before Cannes
The first AI-generated feature film just became a cautionary tale about building on rented land—even when the landlord is worth $157 billion.
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Figure's CEO Raised $700M to Kill His Own Robot Company
While everyone's watching his humanoids pack boxes, Adcock's quietly building the device that makes the robot obsolete. Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock's new startup Hark raised $700M at a $6B valuation to build personalized AI models and hardware devices, funded by Nvidia, AMD, and Salesforce Ventures
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Nvidia's Hyperscaler Problem Just Vanished With One Earnings Call
The hyperscaler dependency that everyone worried would kill Nvidia is already ending. Nvidia beat estimates and forecast rising revenue from non-hyperscaler customers — businesses, governments, and enterprises are now becoming the bigger source of growth
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DeepSeek Raises More Than OpenAI While Admitting AGI Comes Before Profit
The Chinese lab that embarrassed Silicon Valley with cheaper AI is now raising more money than OpenAI's last round, and they're telling investors the quiet part out loud: profitability can wait.
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Pentagon Dumps Anthropic After Chinese Investment Surfaces
The defense department is speed-dating AI models because its current favorite just became a geopolitical liability. The Pentagon is testing multiple AI models with 25 internal "power users" to find replacements for Anthropic's Claude
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Open-Source Code Just Solved Robotics' Biggest Bottleneck
The hard part of robotics was never the hardware—it was getting machines to think on their feet, and that bottleneck is finally cracking open.
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Hark Raises $700M Without Shipping a Single Product
A $700 million Series A is either the smartest bet in AI or the dumbest money ever deployed, and we won't know which until Hark actually ships something. Hark raised $700M in Series A funding to build what it calls a "universal AI interface" with multimodal models launching this summer
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OpenAI Makes $1B More Than Anthropic While Losing Users
The AI leader's revenue is surging while its users are walking away, and that gap tells you everything about where the real money flows in the agent economy. OpenAI outpaced Anthropic by $1 billion in Q1 revenue, but user growth has flatlined even as revenue climbs
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OpenAI Dodges Musk's Betrayal Claims on a Technicality
The statute of limitations just saved OpenAI from answering whether it betrayed its founding mission, and while Musk plans an appeal, Altman's already moved on to converting Y Combinator equity into compute credits.
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SpaceX Tells IPO Investors It Will Replace Your Job With AI
The rocket company is telling Wall Street it's actually in the business of replacing your job. SpaceX is pitching IPO investors on a $26.5 trillion AI market opportunity, positioning itself as a competitor to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's AI systems
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Anthropic Backs Firm That Buys Companies to Run Them With AI
Private equity just figured out that buying AI deployment expertise matters more than buying the models themselves. Anthropic's enterprise joint venture acquired Fractional AI, a deployment services firm that was previously working with OpenAI
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Texas Towns Ban Data Centers as AI Gold Rush Hits Local Resistance
The state that gave us "drill, baby, drill" is now telling Big Tech to take its GPUs somewhere else. Small-town Texas communities are mobilizing to block data center construction, a sharp reversal in America's most business-friendly state
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OpenAI's Founding Charter Was Never Legally Binding, Court Rules
The courtroom loss matters less than what it reveals: OpenAI's original charter was always more aspiration than contract, and the people building the most powerful technology of our time never actually agreed on what they were building toward.
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Google Just Let Anyone Build Android Apps Without Code
Google just made the command line optional for building software, and nobody seems to be talking about what happens when a billion Android users realize they don't need the Play Store anymore.
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Anthropic Abandons Pure Research Play, Buys Consulting Firm Instead
The AI lab that swore it was just building safe frontier models just bought itself a consulting practice. Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched an enterprise AI services firm that acquired Fractional AI, a San Francisco consulting shop, as its operational foundation
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Google Stops Chasing AGI, Wins $2 Trillion Market Instead
The AGI race is over, and the consolation prize might be worth more than the trophy.
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SpaceX Burns More Cash on AI Than Rockets in Leaked IPO Filing
The world's most expensive IPO just revealed that Elon Musk's AI bet is burning cash faster than his rockets burn fuel. SpaceX filed for what could be the largest IPO ever, targeting a $2 trillion valuation with Musk retaining 85.1% voting control through a super-voting share structure
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Samsung Pays Chip Workers More Than Most Americans Earn in a Lifetime
When your chip fab workers are getting bonuses larger than most Americans' lifetime earnings, you're not measuring productivity gains—you're measuring tectonic shifts in value creation.
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Anthropic Hits Profitability While OpenAI Still Burns Cash
The lab that positioned itself as AI's "safety-first" alternative just proved the business model works without selling out. Anthropic told investors it will more than double revenue to $10.9 billion in Q2 while posting its first profitable quarter
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Sam Altman Won His Trial But Lost the Narrative on OpenAI's Profit Pivot
The jury let Altman off the hook, but the questions Musk raised about OpenAI's pivot from nonprofit to profit machine aren't going anywhere.
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