Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Deal Is Dead. The Relationship Isn't.
Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI infrastructure deal never progressed past preliminary talks. Jensen Huang says he'll still invest, but the terms have changed.
The Bots Built Their Own Reddit. 147,000 Signed Up in Three Days.
147,000 AI agents joined Moltbook in 72 hours. They post, gossip, and teach each other to hack. Security researchers are worried.
Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Deal Is Dead. The Relationship Isn't.
Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI infrastructure deal never progressed past preliminary talks. Jensen Huang says he'll still invest, but the terms have changed.
SpaceX Asks to Put One Million Data Centers in Orbit. The Math Says Otherwise.
SpaceX asked the FCC for one million orbital data center satellites. The filing has no hardware specs and no timeline. Here is what it really means.
AI News
SpaceX Wants to Swallow xAI Before Going Public. The Math Gets Weird.
SpaceX and xAI are in merger talks ahead of a record $50 billion IPO. Behind the orbital data center pitch sits financial engineering and Pentagon contracts.
OpenAI Wants Your Money. All of It.
OpenAI targets Q4 2026 IPO while closing a $100B pre-IPO round at $830B valuation. Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank lead investors in circular AI funding.
Apple Pays $2 Billion to Read Your Face
Apple acquired Israeli startup Q.AI for close to $2 billion, gaining facial micro-movement technology that decodes silent speech for future wearables.
Moltbot Punched Through Every Security Wall. Attackers Followed.
Researchers found 1,862 Moltbot servers exposed without authentication. The viral AI assistant stores credentials in plaintext and invites attack by design.
Politics
Silicon Valley's Selective Silence
Tim Cook and Andy Jassy attended a Melania doc screening while Alex Pretti was shot. 500+ tech workers demand action. Most CEOs stay silent.
Anthropic CEO Compares China Chip Sales to Nuclear Proliferation
Anthropic CEO compares Nvidia H200 sales to China to nuclear proliferation. DeepMind's Hassabis says Chinese labs trail by six months.
The Philosophy PhD Who Says Philosophy Is Dead
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, a philosophy PhD, told Davos that AI will destroy humanities jobs while elevating vocational workers. His conclusion: mass immigration becomes economically unnecessary. The self-described progressive runs a company that sells surveillance tools to ICE.
Europe's Trade Bazooka. Silicon Valley Holds Its Breath.
Trump's Greenland tariffs have Europe openly discussing its "trade bazooka," a weapon that could ban U.S. tech firms from 450 million consumers overnight. For Silicon Valley, this isn't about bourbon and motorcycles anymore.
Vibe Coding
The Accidental Architect: How Boris Cherny Built Silicon Valley's Most Talked-About Coding Tool
Meet Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic. His viral workflow runs 10 AI agents in parallel. He hasn't written code by hand in months.
Clawdbot: How to Build Your Own AI Assistant for Five Dollars a Month
Step-by-step tutorial to set up Clawdbot on a $5 VPS or old hardware. Copy-paste commands, WhatsApp integration, and security best practices.
How to Build Claude Code Skills That Actually Work
A week of automation work delivered garbage. Thirty minutes rebuilding it as a Claude Code skill delivered results. The difference explains why most engineers are using AI coding tools wrong, and what skills actually solve.
You're Not a 10x Developer. You're Managing Five Expensive AI Interns.
Anthropic's multi-agent Claude Code lets developers run five AI assistants simultaneously. Early adopters report 10x productivity gains. The token bills tell a different story about who really benefits from autonomous overnight coding.
Funding
When Light Becomes the Processor
A Duke University spinout claims its photonic chip can deliver 100x the performance of Nvidia's best GPU. $118 million in backing from Bill Gates and Microsoft says the physics works. But fabrication reality and a moving Nvidia target stand between Neurophos and its first paying customer.
Why Europe's $17.5 Billion AI Bet Still Trails America by 9x
Europe raised $58B in venture funding in 2025, with AI leading for the first time. But US AI startups raised 9x more. Analysis of the widening gap.
Humans&: The $4.5 Billion Bet Against the Robot Takeover
Anthropic and xAI refugees raised $480M at a $4.5B valuation for a startup that rejects autonomous AI. Humans& bets the future isn't bots working alone. It's bots helping people work together.
Replit Bets That Software's Last Moat Is an Illusion
Amjad Masad built a $3 billion company that lets anyone publish iOS apps by typing a sentence. Revenue grew 15x. But security researchers found vibe-coded apps ship with critical vulnerabilities. The friction he removed wasn't just bureaucracy.
AI Research
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic Finds the Off-Switch for AI Personality Drift
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
The Quarantine Strategy: To make an AI remember the past, you have to protect it from the future
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?
Microsoft's AI Adoption Study Reveals More About Microsoft Than AI
Microsoft says one in six people now use AI. The methodology: counting clicks on Microsoft products. The US ranks 24th despite hosting every major AI lab. South Korea's surge? A viral selfie filter. The company selling AI infrastructure has appointed itself scorekeeper of AI adoption.
Tools
The lobster that never sleeps: Inside Clawdbot's vision for personal AI
Open-source Clawdbot turns a Mac Mini into a 24/7 AI employee for $2,400/year. What this means for workers in digital roles.
10 AI Tools That Actually Ship: The Standouts from Late 2025
While OpenAI and Anthropic chase AGI, a wave of specialized AI tools hit the market solving problems the big labs ignored. Ten standouts from late 2025 reveal where the real value is being built: integrations, workflows, and trust.
The Memory Problem Nobody Solved Until Now
A Spotify engineer built a memory layer for Claude Code that treats your half-finished Obsidian organization as signal, not failure. Now he's racing platform giants to define how AI remembers.
The librarian in the loop
A developer gave Claude Code access to 100 books and a simple command: "find something interesting." What came back wasn't summaries. It was connections no hand-tuned pipeline could find.
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