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Teens Sound Optimistic About AI. They're Describing Surrender. Anthropic Files to Form AnthroPAC as AI Midterm Spending Tops $300 Million OPINION: OpenAI Bought Its Interviewer. Call That What It Is. Forty Models Ranked. Arcee Undercuts Claude. OpenAI Buys the Camera. Implicator.ai Launches the AI Top 40, Ranking LLMs Across 10 Benchmarks in One Score Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost Teens Sound Optimistic About AI. They're Describing Surrender. Anthropic Files to Form AnthroPAC as AI Midterm Spending Tops $300 Million OPINION: OpenAI Bought Its Interviewer. Call That What It Is. Forty Models Ranked. Arcee Undercuts Claude. OpenAI Buys the Camera. Implicator.ai Launches the AI Top 40, Ranking LLMs Across 10 Benchmarks in One Score Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost
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Teens Sound Optimistic About AI. They're Describing Surrender.

Teens Sound Optimistic About AI. They're Describing Surrender.

Thirty-six percent of American teenagers told Pew Research Center that AI will positively impact their lives. The headline reads like good news. But read what the optimists actually wrote. Their reasons don't sound like enthusiasm. They sound like resignation.

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Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost
Vibe Coding

Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost

Arcee AI's Trinity-Large-Thinking scores 91.9 on PinchBench, within two points of Claude Opus 4.6, at 96% lower cost. The 400B-parameter open-source reasoning model activates only 13B parameters per token, trained for $20 million by a 30-person team on 2,048 NVIDIA GPUs.

Harkaram Grewal · 10 min read ·
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

AI token prices fell 99% in three years. Enterprise value now flows to orchestration, data flywheels, workflow integration, and compliance.

Marcus Schuler · 28 min read ·
04 Morning Briefings
$122 Billion In. Thousands Out.
Morning Briefing

$122 Billion In. Thousands Out.

OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation. Oracle fires thousands for AI data centers. Anthropic leaks Claude Code source.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read ·

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Microsoft calls it superintelligence. The spreadsheet says cost reduction.
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Microsoft calls it superintelligence. The spreadsheet says cost reduction.

Mustafa Suleyman stood in front of 350 people in Miami this week and talked about superintelligence. His team's first product: a transcription model priced at 36 cents an hour. After Microsoft's worst quarter since 2008, the gap between branding and output reveals a strategy Wall Street might actually need. Teams of fewer than 10 engineers. Half the GPUs of competitors. And a capability gap Suleyman himself acknowledged to the Financial Times.

Marcus Schuler
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