A week of automation work delivered garbage. Thirty minutes rebuilding it as a Claude Code skill delivered results. The difference explains why most engineers are using AI coding tools wrong, and what skills actually solve.
The Trump administration approved exports of Nvidia's H200 processors to China on Tuesday. Hours later, Beijing told its tech companies to stop buying.
Washington spent years blocking Nvidia's advanced chips from China. Tuesday, the Trump administration approved H200 exports with a 25% government cut. By afternoon, Beijing told its own companies to hold off.
A week of automation work delivered garbage. Thirty minutes rebuilding it as a Claude Code skill delivered results. The difference explains why most engineers are using AI coding tools wrong, and what skills actually solve.
The Trump administration approved exports of Nvidia's H200 processors to China on Tuesday. Hours later, Beijing told its tech companies to stop buying.
Washington spent years blocking Nvidia's advanced chips from China. Tuesday, the Trump administration approved H200 exports with a 25% government cut. By afternoon, Beijing told its own companies to hold off.
Apple tried to build its own AI. It failed. Now it's paying Google $1 billion a year to license Gemini while pretending the arrangement is strategic. The company that controlled every layer of the stack is now renting the most important one.
OneBrief's $2.15B valuation on $19M revenue bets military planning software can become a platform before Palantir notices. The Battle Road acquisition complicates the math: the simulation engine was already running on Palantir infrastructure.
Claude Code hit $1B in six months by doing what ChatGPT can't: reading your files directly. Paired with Obsidian, it transforms years of accumulated notes into an AI-powered research system. Here's how to set it up.
San Francisco | January 13, 2026 A student trains an AI exclusively on nineteenth-century London texts, asks it about 1834, and
A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Anthropic just gave everyone access to the same AI agent developers have been using for eleven months. Claude Cowork runs in a sandbox, but the prompt injection problem remains unsolved. The safety of the system now rests on users who don't know what they're asking for.
Apple just admitted its AI wasn't good enough. The company will pay Google roughly $1 billion annually to license Gemini for Siri, after years of failed internal development. The privacy-first company now depends on its biggest data rival.
Britain's media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated sexual images of women and children. The platform restricted the feature to paying subscribers—turning abuse into a premium service.
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