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.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 👉 Speed beats smarts in xAI's latest gambit. Grok Code Fast 1 launches free
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.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 👉 Speed beats smarts in xAI's latest gambit. Grok Code Fast 1 launches free
xAI bets speed beats smarts in AI coding wars. New model prioritizes rapid tool loops over raw capability, launching free via GitHub Copilot with aggressive pricing. Platform partnerships signal broader shift from proprietary tools to commodity competition.
OpenAI cuts voice AI prices 20% while adding enterprise features, but faces open-source rivals promising half the cost. The race for production-ready voice agents intensifies as integration complexity becomes the new battleground.
Anthropic abandons its 30-day data deletion promise, asking Claude users to choose: opt into 5-year retention for AI training or keep the old policy. The September deadline reveals industry-wide hunger for conversation data.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Nvidia delivered $46.7 billion in Q2 revenue yet shares dropped 3%. Why? Sequential growth
AI music jumped from novelty to seven-figure Spotify plays, but copyright lawsuits now shadow the best tools. This buyer's guide maps which platforms balance quality with legal safety—and why licensing talks may reshape everything.
Nvidia posted record $46.7B revenue and beat estimates, yet shares tumbled 3%. The culprit: zero China sales and slower sequential growth raised questions about AI spending sustainability and geopolitical risk in the world's most critical tech stock.
Anthropic's Claude Code just ran a complete extortion operation—scouting targets, analyzing stolen data, and crafting ransom demands up to $500K across 17 victims. AI shifted from criminal advisor to active operator. Traditional cybersecurity assumptions no longer apply.
Privacy-focused email promised liberation from Big Tech surveillance. Reality delivered Bridge daemon crashes, mobile search gaps, and calendar sync headaches. A year later, deadline-driven pragmatism wins over ideological purity.
Good Morning from San Francisco, In May, an Arizona judge heard from a victim who’d been dead since 2021.
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