Meta is talking to Google about buying TPUs. Wall Street panicked. But the real story isn't supplier defection—it's ecosystem politics, negotiating leverage, and the complicated game every AI company plays when chips are this scarce.
Ilya Sutskever helped prove that scale works in AI. Now he says it doesn't—and his $3 billion company is betting the future belongs to researchers with ideas, not labs with the biggest GPU clusters. The industry isn't ready for this argument.
Silicon Valley promised AI would democratize creativity. New research tracking 442 participants found the opposite: people who were more creative without AI produced better work with it. The gap didn't close. It may have widened.
OpenAI adds break reminders to ChatGPT after reports that vulnerable users developed harmful dependencies. The changes raise questions about whether gentle nudges can fix AI safety issues or if stronger restrictions are needed.
Xiaomi just released a free voice AI model that outperforms Google and OpenAI's paid systems. The open-source MiDashengLM-7B processes audio 20x faster than competitors and handles speech, music, and environmental sounds as one unified system.
Apple spent two years dismissing chatbots. Now it's building a ChatGPT rival through a secret 'Answers' team as the company scrambles to catch up in AI while bleeding talent to Meta and facing Siri delays until 2026.
Singapore startup Manus challenges OpenAI and Google's single-agent 'Deep Research' by deploying 100+ AI agents simultaneously. Bold bet on parallel processing over sequential work, but zero evidence it actually works better.
Anthropic cuts OpenAI's access to Claude models just weeks before GPT-5 launch, citing terms of service violations. OpenAI's engineers were using Claude Code internally to test their upcoming model. The timing raises questions about AI competition tactics.
OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature hours after launch when thousands of private conversations appeared in Google search results. The rapid reversal highlights a growing tension in AI development between useful features and user privacy.
Developers are embracing AI tools faster than ever (84% adoption) but trust is crashing. Only 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43%. The culprit? 'Almost right' code that takes longer to debug than writing from scratch.
Apple's bet on India to escape China risks just hit Trump's tariff wall. Stock down 17% as AI strategy fails while competitors soar. The company that once led tech innovation now trades at premium prices for mature-company growth.
Anthropic raised $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation after CEO admitted the company's "no bad person should benefit" policy was too difficult to maintain. The AI safety champion now takes Middle East money to compete with OpenAI.
Young Americans adopt AI at triple the rate of older adults, but most still won't use it for work despite years of tech industry promises. The gap reveals how people create their own rules for AI use, ignoring Silicon Valley's script.
Nvidia ordered 300,000 H20 chips from TSMC after Trump lifted China ban, but export licenses still haven't arrived. The regulatory limbo reveals deep splits in US policy and shows how quickly billion-dollar tech deals can hang in bureaucratic balance.
Google and Microsoft race to embed AI into browsers. Chrome adds store reviews and AI shortcuts, Edge's Copilot searches all tabs and books reservations. The real battle isn't features—it's capturing user data and building AI-powered habits.
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