Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for National Guard troops in San Francisco from his private plane, shocking his own PR team. The theatrical Trump embrace—timed before his big conference—tests whether loud loyalty beats quiet accommodation.
Coursera courses now live inside ChatGPT—world-class instructors summoned mid-conversation. No app switching, no browser tabs. EU users blocked by privacy laws while Wall Street bets big on AI-powered education. The learning shortcut arrived, but not for everyone.
Google's 1.3 quadrillion token milestone sounds massive—until you see growth rates halving and realize tokens measure server intensity, not customer demand. The slowdown reveals something uncomfortable about AI economics.
Google's AI solved coding problems no human could crack at world's toughest programming contest, earning gold. But OpenAI quietly achieved perfect scores. The real story: advanced AI reasoning now matches human experts but remains too expensive for wide use.
YouTube deployed Google's advanced Veo 3 AI to millions of Shorts creators for free—a strategic response to TikTok's dominance. The move shifts platform competition from algorithms to creation tools, while raising questions about authenticity and creator dependency.
Legal pressure mounts as families sue AI companion platforms over teen suicides. OpenAI rushes new safety controls while regulators investigate. The business model that keeps users engaged conflicts with crisis intervention.
AI adoption is splitting along wealth lines globally as businesses automate 77% of tasks. Singapore uses Claude 4.6x more than expected while India lags at 0.27x. The concentration threatens to widen economic gaps rather than close them.
OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
The Cruz proposal offers a laboratory for testing whether innovation imperatives can coexist with democratic oversight. Whether Congress embraces this model may determine how America balances technological competition with institutional governance in the AI era.
Arm challenges the smartphone industry's NPU rush with Lumex, betting CPU-based AI can deliver 5x performance gains across 3 billion devices by 2030. The platform's SME2 instructions target developer frustration with fragmented neural engines.
China's surveillance tech, originally built with IBM and other US companies in the 2000s, is now being sold as 'control-tech-as-a-service' globally. Geedge Networks ships turnkey censorship systems to Pakistan, Myanmar, and others—all while avoiding sanctions.
Judge Alsup torpedoed Anthropic's record $1.5B author settlement, calling it incomplete and warning writers might 'get the shaft.' September deadlines loom before a December trial that could cost the AI company over $10 trillion in damages.
Trump's new chip diplomacy: annual permits replace permanent waivers for Samsung and SK Hynix in China. Washington gains oversight, Seoul gets continuity with red tape. But the real bottleneck isn't logic—it's memory production.
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.
OpenAI's $10 billion custom chip bet with Broadcom promises cheaper ChatGPT and less Nvidia dependence—if the software stack delivers. First silicon ships 2026, but the real test is whether custom accelerators can match CUDA's mature ecosystem.
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