A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Anthropic just gave everyone access to the same AI agent developers have been using for eleven months. Claude Cowork runs in a sandbox, but the prompt injection problem remains unsolved. The safety of the system now rests on users who don't know what they're asking for.
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ChatGPT's user base flipped from 80% male to 52% female in three years as 700M users treat it like infrastructure. Universities that banned AI now scramble to build policies around tools 92% of students already use daily.
Microsoft and OpenAI end months of toxic negotiations with a deal that gives the nonprofit $100+ billion while clearing OpenAI's path to go public. The agreement reveals how AI partnerships are evolving beyond traditional boundaries.
OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
Oracle bets $300B on OpenAI's computing future, but the math is stark: OpenAI generates $10B annually while committing to $60B yearly. The deal either transforms Oracle into an AI infrastructure leader—or becomes a cautionary dot-com tale.
Oracle's stock exploded 40% after revealing a $455B AI contract backlog and projections for $144B cloud revenue by 2030. The surge made Larry Ellison briefly the world's richest person—but can the company turn massive bookings into sustainable margins?
Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
Meta's $72B AI talent hunt is imploding. ChatGPT co-creator nearly quit within a week, forcing tripled compensation. Elite recruits defecting to rivals while existing employees demand parity. The secretive TBD Lab creates new corporate castes.
Arm challenges the smartphone industry's NPU rush with Lumex, betting CPU-based AI can deliver 5x performance gains across 3 billion devices by 2030. The platform's SME2 instructions target developer frustration with fragmented neural engines.
Anthropic's Claude now creates actual Excel files, PowerPoint decks, and PDFs directly from chat—no more copy-pasting. Enterprise customers get workflow automation, but there's a data security trade-off that could reshape AI adoption patterns.
AI has trapped job seekers and employers in a dysfunctional arms race. Workers mass-produce applications with ChatGPT; companies use AI to screen them. Result: record-low hiring confidence and a market that serves nobody well.
Judge Alsup torpedoed Anthropic's record $1.5B author settlement, calling it incomplete and warning writers might 'get the shaft.' September deadlines loom before a December trial that could cost the AI company over $10 trillion in damages.
Google told a judge the "open web is in rapid decline" while executives publicly claim it's thriving. The contradiction exposes the battle over internet architecture as AI Mode approaches default status.
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