OpenAI backs "Critterz," the first AI-animated feature targeting Cannes debut. Nine months production vs. industry-standard three years, $30M budget vs. $100M norm. Hollywood's IP lawsuits against AI companies provide tense backdrop for collaboration experiment.
ASML commits €1.3B to become Mistral AI's largest shareholder in Europe's bid to challenge US tech dominance through vertical integration rather than pure scale. The Dutch chip giant's board seat signals a new model for European sovereignty.
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.
Trump and Musk's $250 million political alliance collapsed in three hours Thursday, wiping $150 billion from Tesla's value as they traded accusations on social media. Their fight threatens America's space program and shows how personal feuds now shape policy.
Anthropic built secret AI models for U.S. spy agencies that handle classified data without refusing requests. The models already run at top security levels, creating the first AI designed for government secrets rather than consumer use.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Hollywood studios are quietly running AI experiments while publicly supporting union deals that limit the
AI coding companies built billion-dollar businesses on rented intelligence. Then their landlords decided to compete. Why Windsurf's $3B vanished overnight—and what China learned from watching.
An exploration of how large tech companies are hindering the progress and innovation in AI coding.
The iPhone designer who feels "heavily" weighed down by his creations just sold his new company to OpenAI for $6.4 billion. Now Jony Ive promises a screenless device that will fix what smartphones broke. But his solution raises a question: Can the people who caused the problem actually solve it?
Private equity firm quietly dismantled Europe's most influential startup publication last month. The casualties include journalists who spent decades building relationships that connected European founders to Silicon Valley investors.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Elon Musk ditched Washington last week. Now he's raising billions across his empire.
Your plumber’s phone rings 47 times a day. He answers 12. The rest? Lost revenue. Netic, an AI call handler built by a frustrated homeowner-turned-founder, is quietly transforming the $500 billion home services industry—one missed call at a time.
Wall Street bet $100+ billion on AI data centers this year. Microsoft just paused construction. Towns gave up 85% of tax revenue for projects that may create few jobs. Are we building the future or the next bubble?
Good Morning from San Francisco, AI companies borrowed social media's playbook 📱 Keep users hooked. Make them come back
Investigating the complex relationship between humans and AI chatbots. Can genuine affection develop with machines?
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