Zhipu's Coding Agent Got Too Popular. Now It's Rationing Access.
Zhipu limits GLM Coding Plan subscriptions to 20% after GLM-4.7 overwhelms servers. Chinese AI hits infrastructure ceiling despite benchmark wins.
Zhipu limits GLM Coding Plan subscriptions to 20% after GLM-4.7 overwhelms servers. Chinese AI hits infrastructure ceiling despite benchmark wins.
Europe raised $58B in venture funding in 2025, with AI leading for the first time. But US AI startups raised 9x more. Analysis of the widening gap.
San Francisco | Wednesday, January 21, 2026 Six months after forming Superintelligence Labs, Meta has its first models. Andrew Bosworth calls
Bosworth calls Meta's first Superintelligence Labs models "very good." The hedged language reveals where Meta stands in the AI race after Llama 4 criticism.
OpenAI's ChatGPT now predicts user age through behavioral signals before "adult mode" launch. Privacy experts warn about accuracy and surveillance.
Anthropic and xAI refugees raised $480M at a $4.5B valuation for a startup that rejects autonomous AI. Humans& bets the future isn't bots working alone. It's bots helping people work together.
Anthropic CEO compares Nvidia H200 sales to China to nuclear proliferation. DeepMind's Hassabis says Chinese labs trail by six months.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, a philosophy PhD, told Davos that AI will destroy humanities jobs while elevating vocational workers. His conclusion: mass immigration becomes economically unnecessary. The self-described progressive runs a company that sells surveillance tools to ICE.
Google wants checkout inside Gemini. Amazon is suing to stop AI agents. Consumers trust neither. The 72-point gap between AI usage and purchase comfort reveals a platform war being waged without the consent of the people being fought over.
San Francisco | January 20, 2026 Trump's Greenland tariffs just made the EU reach for its "economic nuclear
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
Trump's Greenland tariffs have Europe openly discussing its "trade bazooka," a weapon that could ban U.S. tech firms from 450 million consumers overnight. For Silicon Valley, this isn't about bourbon and motorcycles anymore.
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