Claude Code hit $1B in six months by doing what ChatGPT can't: reading your files directly. Paired with Obsidian, it transforms years of accumulated notes into an AI-powered research system. Here's how to set it up.
San Francisco | January 13, 2026 A student trains an AI exclusively on nineteenth-century London texts, asks it about 1834, and
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?
Good Morning from San Francisco, OpenAI just went open-source. First time since 2019. Their new models run on laptops and
Two California residents built a $28 million pipeline shipping Nvidia's most powerful AI chips to China through fake companies. Their paranoid texts about checking for trackers became the evidence that brought them down. Now they face 20 years.
Anthropic's Opus 4.1 costs 10x more than competitors for a 2% performance bump. While OpenAI readies GPT-5, Anthropic ships an honest ".1" release that actually performs worse on some tasks. The premium AI pricing bubble might be about to pop.
While AI music rivals face billion-dollar lawsuits for copyright infringement, ElevenLabs took a different approach: they asked permission first. Their new music generator launched with licensing deals already signed.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of sneaky web scraping with fake browser identities. Perplexity calls it a
Claude Code turns your terminal into an AI developer that builds websites and apps for you. No coding required - just tell it what you want. From recipe managers to social networks, it handles the technical work while you focus on ideas.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Apple spent two years dismissing chatbots. Now it's hiring 12,000 people to
AI researchers cracked how to predict when language models turn harmful. Their 'persona vectors' can spot toxic behavior before it happens and prevent AI personalities from going bad during training.
Apple's scrambling to rebuild Siri by 2026 while a 30-person London startup already solved the productivity problem Cupertino is trying to crack. At $47.8M, Raycast costs Apple 4 hours of revenue—but Microsoft might grab it first.
Global AI governance takes center stage. Therapy meets ChatGPT. Data companies cash in. This week's biggest tech stories show the world grappling with artificial intelligence's rapid advance.
OpenAI's Sam Altman admits he's "scared" of GPT-5, comparing its development to the Manhattan Project. The model launches this week, but internal testing reveals AI progress is slowing. Why is the CEO afraid of his own creation?
Google launches its most powerful AI yet, but at $250/month and with safety warnings about weapons knowledge, Deep Think raises questions about who gets access to advanced reasoning capabilities.
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