Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
Google snatched Windsurf's CEO and co-founder in a $2.4B talent raid after OpenAI's $3B acquisition collapsed. Microsoft's partnership constraints are backfiring, handing wins to competitors in the escalating AI talent wars.
Musk promised truth-seeking AI. When Grok 4 tackles politics, it searches Musk's posts first. Tests show 54 of 64 citations came from him. Accident or intent? The answer matters for every AI system we build.
While competitors built flashy coding IDEs, Anthropic bet on the terminal. Now Claude Code's command-line approach is winning developers who want AI that integrates with their existing workflows instead of replacing them.
While Congress debates TikTok's future, ByteDance quietly built America's #2 education app. Gauth helps 200 million students cheat on homework by solving problems from photos. Same company, same data concerns, zero scrutiny.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 🌉 A federal judge just handed AI companies their first major copyright win. The catch? It
Good Morning from San Francisco, Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raised $2 billion for her six-month-old startup. That broke every
Good Morning from San Francisco, 🌉 OpenAI scrubbed its $6.5 billion Jony Ive acquisition videos after a judge sided with
Mark Zuckerberg just paid $14.3 billion to hire one person. Meta's desperate shopping spree for AI talent reveals how far behind the company has fallen—and creates an awkward problem for competitors who must now choose sides.
Programming computers in English sounds impossible. But Andrej Karpathy built working apps without knowing code, using only natural language prompts. He calls it Software 3.0. These AI systems think like humans, complete with superhuman memory and distinctly human mistakes.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Musk's xAI burns $1 billion monthly 🔥 while dodging pollution lawsuits in Memphis. The
ChatGPT's crawlers abandon slow websites before they can respond, generating HTTP 499 timeout errors that cost sites visibility in AI search results. The shift forces a return to server-side rendering as JavaScript becomes invisible to AI bots.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 🔥 OpenAI executives floated antitrust complaints against Microsoft as their partnership implodes. The "nuclear option&
OpenAI executives discussed accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations as their $300 billion AI partnership crumbles over control and money. The breakup would reshape the entire industry and leave enterprise customers scrambling.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 🌉 AI models memorize books. 📚 Stanford researchers caught Meta's Llama 3.1 reproducing 42%
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