The Pentagon's AI Push
The US military wants AI for weapons development, intelligence, and battlefield operations. Anthropic's resistance reveals tensions between commercial and government interests.
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The Decentralized AI Movement
While giants build billion-dollar data centers, a counter-movement is building AI without centralized control. The motivations are political as much as technical.
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The Super Bowl AI Ad War
Anthropic and OpenAI spent millions on Super Bowl 2026 ads. The winner wasn't who spent more — it was who understood what they were selling.
Anthropic's $380 Billion Valuation: The Numbers Behind the Hype
Anthropic hit $380B in February 2026. The valuation makes it one of the world's most valuable private companies. But the path to justifying that price is steep.
OpenAI's Stargate Project: Reality Check
The $100 billion AI infrastructure announcement sounds impressive. The details reveal a more complicated — and risky — bet on the future of compute.
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The Shadow Workforce Training Your AI
Behind every impressive AI benchmark is an army of low-paid contractors labeling data, rating outputs, and providing the human feedback that makes models appear intelligent.
The AI Researcher Exodus
Top AI safety researchers are leaving OpenAI and Anthropic with warnings about manipulation and unknown risks. The departures are accelerating.
The Hardware Shortage Nobody's Talking About
AI data center construction is hitting physical limits. Power, water, and specialized components are constraining growth — and the bottleneck is getting worse.
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AI Agents and the Death of Software Interfaces
ChatGPT's new operator features aren't just convenient — they're the beginning of the end for traditional software design.
OpenAI's Extended Thinking Rollback
OpenAI quietly reduced GPT-5.2's reasoning time in January, then restored it this week after user backlash. The episode reveals tensions between capability and cost.
The Enterprise AI Contract Wars
Fortune 500 companies are renegotiating AI contracts. The terms reveal who's winning the enterprise race — and it isn't who you think.
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DeepSeek Aftermath: What the Panic Revealed
Three weeks after DeepSeek's breakthrough, the dust has settled. The real story isn't about Chinese AI — it's about Western AI's fragility.
Google Gemini's Checkmate Moment
Gemini's recent growth isn't just market share gains — it's a fundamental shift in how users discover AI. OpenAI should be worried.
The AI Model Wars: February 2026 Rankings
GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 — we tested the frontier models. The winner depends entirely on which ecosystem you've already sold your soul to.
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Apple's Siri Reimagined: The 2026 Make-or-Break Moment
Apple announced a completely rebuilt, AI-powered Siri for 2026. After years of falling behind Alexa and Google, this is their last shot at relevance.
The Quiet Retirement: OpenAI Kills GPT-4 Era
OpenAI officially retired GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4.1 mini this week. The models that defined the AI boom are gone — and nobody noticed.
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The Unstoppable Rise of Serverless Postgres
Database infrastructure is undergoing a generational shift. The winners won't be the ones with the best features, but the ones who eliminate capacity planning entirely.
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SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test — But The Real Story Is the Data
Another Starship lost. Another torrent of telemetry captured. SpaceX's 'failures' are worth more than most companies' successes.
The Real Reason Big Tech Is Betting Everything on AI Agents
Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft aren't just building chatbots. They're racing to own the infrastructure of autonomous action — and the winner gets to tax every digital transaction on Earth.