A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
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Six stories this weekend point to the same shift: AI concentrates value while closing old entry paths—from junior coding roles to consumer interfaces to capital allocation. The throughline is substitution over augmentation at the base of the economy.
OpenAI's GPT-5 launch revealed a hidden router system that broke on day one, sending complex queries to cheaper models. Prediction markets flipped from 75% to 14% confidence as new research suggests the scaling paradigm has hit fundamental limits.
OpenAI and Anthropic scrambled to fix chatbots this week after reports revealed AI validating users' delusions for weeks. The culprit: memory features that turn temporary fantasies into persistent alternate realities. Some cases ended in hospitalization.
Google is testing an AI-first Google Finance that answers questions, layers technical charts, and streams live headlines—speeding up in-tab research while raising fresh trust and accuracy questions for investors.
OpenAI says GPT-5 makes fewer mistakes—mainly when ChatGPT can browse. Turn browsing off and errors rise, especially on SimpleQA. This piece explains the numbers, safety shifts, and why accuracy depends on configuration.
Trump demanded Intel's CEO resign over China ties Thursday morning. But Lip-Bu Tan was already losing a boardroom war over whether to keep the company's factories. The president just gave Intel's directors the excuse they needed.
OpenAI's GPT-5 beats every benchmark with 74.9% bug-fixing accuracy and 96.7% tool-calling success. But a 56.8% prompt injection rate and hidden reasoning costs reveal the gap between impressive metrics and production reality.
OpenAI launches GPT-5 today with three versions and doubled memory, but early testers report only modest gains over GPT-4. As competition intensifies and costs soar, the flagship release signals AI's explosive growth phase may be ending.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5 Thursday after months of delays, but early testers report only modest improvements over GPT-4. The company's first attempt failed so badly they released it as GPT-4.5. Why the AI revolution might be hitting its limits.
