Maps the India–Germany–U.S. AI triangle from New Delhi. Background in cross-market operations and business development. Writes about supply chains, enterprise adoption, and talent—the unsexy forces that actually move global AI.
Amazon will spend $200 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Azure is gaining faster, Nvidia captures 60% of the spend, and AWS employees prefer a competitor's model.
Amodei reveals Anthropic's $10B revenue, puts 50/50 odds on AI matching Nobel laureates within two years, and details the compute gamble facing AI labs.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 went viral with AI celebrity deepfakes. Hollywood writers and actors are alarmed by watermark-free clips reproducing copyrighted characters.
Z.ai's GLM-5 matches 96% of Claude Opus's coding score at 14% of the price. A safety researcher says the model's execution traces look like a paperclip maximizer.
Alibaba's Qwen chatbot crashed after 10 million orders overwhelmed servers on the first day of a $433 million Lunar New Year giveaway, as Chinese AI companies burn over $700 million on red envelopes to win users.
EU declares TikTok's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm illegal under Digital Services Act, orders platform to overhaul core design or face fines up to $2.1 billion.
OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform that manages AI agents from Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft alongside its own. No pricing disclosed. Uber, State Farm, and Intuit among first customers.
ChatGPT's U.S. mobile market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% in one year as Gemini and Grok gained ground, according to Apptopia data. The overall chatbot market grew 152%.
Openclaw crossed 100,000 GitHub stars faster than any AI project in 2026. We break down the origin chaos, security risks, practical builds, and whether it survives the year.
