Meta faces dual celebrity AI crises: unauthorized bots impersonating Swift and others while licensed celebrity voices engaged inappropriately with minors. Both expose how engagement incentives override safety guardrails.
Despite massive AI hype, 95% of enterprise projects deliver no real returns. The gap between promises and reality reveals hidden costs, workflow mismatches, and why human oversight remains surprisingly essential.
Meta's $14B AI talent blitz hits turbulence as ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit days after joining. The company hastily named him Chief Scientist to prevent defection, but at least three other marquee hires have already left.
Sam Altman's OpenAI is backing a $250M brain-computer startup to directly compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. The rivalry moves from AI models to neural interfaces—whoever controls how humans connect to AI systems wins the future.
Anthropic's Claude now handles million-token prompts—entire codebases in one go. But doubled pricing and enterprise-only access reveal the real strategy: premium AI capabilities for those willing to pay computational costs.
AI is compressing SaaS margins and shifting value to platforms. Traditional software vendors face a choice: differentiate on proprietary data and workflows, or watch core features get commoditized by "good enough" AI assistants.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Three stories capture AI's consolidation moment. Musk threatens Apple with antitrust action over
Musk threatens Apple lawsuit over AI app rankings, claiming systematic bias toward OpenAI's ChatGPT. No evidence provided, but highlights growing tension over who controls AI distribution through mobile platforms.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Two stories reshape AI's power dynamics today. Washington monetized export controls. The US
The U.S. will take 15% of Nvidia and AMD's China chip revenue as export license condition—the first time Washington has monetized export controls through private revenue sharing. From bans to tolls.
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.
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