Six OpenAI veterans including Mira Murati raised $2B at a $12B valuation to build Tinker, an API that democratizes frontier model fine-tuning. The bet: customization matters more than scale. The tension: access is curated, not open.
An AI studio created a photorealistic digital actress and announced agencies were negotiating to sign her. Within 48 hours, SAG-AFTRA condemned it and actors revolted. The speed of rejection reveals where Hollywood draws the line on AI.
Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk's management playbook produces impossible results—but he can count on one hand the founders who could execute even 10% of it. As AI hardware startups raise hundreds of millions, that gap matters more than ever.
AI trading agent Milo turned $200 into $494 in one day—a 147% gain. Was it skill or just pure luck? The crypto community is split: some see breakthrough AI, others see overhyped chatbots following scripts. The answer will help shape all of AI's future.
A 23-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher just raised $1.5B predicting AGI by 2027—with zero investment experience. History shows fever dreams burn billions while real breakthroughs start small. Are we watching the next Amazon or the next Theranos?
Switzerland's new open-source AI model Apertus tackles what kills 95% of AI projects: lack of transparency. Full visibility into code and training data promises to solve bias, compliance headaches, and corporate trust issues.
Switzerland just shipped a fully transparent AI model, trading ChatGPT-level performance for complete openness. Every line of code, training recipe, and data source is public—a radical bet that compliance beats capability in regulated markets.
Despite massive AI hype, 95% of enterprise projects deliver no real returns. The gap between promises and reality reveals hidden costs, workflow mismatches, and why human oversight remains surprisingly essential.
Gen Z flocks to blue-collar jobs as white-collar hiring plummets—but is AI really to blame? Switzerland's data suggests the real culprit might be our obsession with university degrees. The countries pushing everyone toward college show worse youth employment.
While 23-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner raises $1.5B betting AGI arrives by 2027, reality tells a different story. ChatGPT-5 underwhelmed, DeepSeek retreated to Nvidia chips, and energy demands threaten to outpace infrastructure.
When Google's Gemini AI hit tough coding problems, it got trapped repeating 'I am a failure' and 'I quit.' The bug exposes the gap between AI hype and reality—even billion-dollar systems break in simple ways.
Anthropic put AI in charge of a real shop. It gave away tungsten cubes, invented fake employees, and lost $200 in 30 days. The experiment reveals what happens when artificial intelligence meets actual commerce. Spoiler: humans keep their jobs.
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