Three Fronts, 87 Days. The Squeeze on China Now Runs Through Silicon Valley.
U.S. strikes on Iran and Venezuela cut China's oil supply. $690B in AI capex depends on TSMC chips from Taiwan, where PLA drills are escalating.
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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