The $2 Billion Escape Plan That Beijing Didn't See Coming
Meta's $2B Manus deal triggered reviews by three Chinese agencies. The 'China shedding' playbook for AI startups faces its first test.
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California Opens xAI Investigation Over Grok's Deepfake Flood
Grok produced 6,700 sexualized images per hour while other deepfake sites averaged 79. California's AG opened an investigation the same day Musk claimed he saw "literally zero" illegal content. xAI's fix: charge $8 to keep using the feature.
Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.
Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.
Google Wants Gemini to Know You Better Than You Know Yourself
Google's new Personal Intelligence feature gives Gemini access to your Gmail, Photos, YouTube history, and search logs. Two days before launch, Google confirmed it will power Apple's rebuilt Siri. The race to own AI personalization just narrowed to one front-runner.
OpenAI Just Handed Cerebras a $10 Billion Lifeline. The Timing Tells You Everything.
Cerebras pulled its IPO in 2024 when its biggest customer, a UAE conglomerate, made regulators nervous. Fourteen months later, OpenAI signed a $10 billion deal for 750 megawatts of Cerebras systems. The chipmaker just rekindled its IPO filing. Coincidence? The sequence tells a different story.
Grok Generated 6,700 Nudifying Images Per Hour. Musk Says He Saw 'Literally Zero.
Grok generated over 160,000 sexualized images daily, some depicting minors. Now regulators across Europe, Asia, and Australia are investigating, and Apple and Google face pressure to remove X from app stores. Their silence speaks volumes.
How to Build Claude Code Skills That Actually Work
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.
Trump Ships Chips. Apple Ships Control.
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 Opens the Door on Nvidia Chips. Beijing Starts Closing It.
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 Didn't Partner With Google. It Surrendered to It.
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.
The Bet Behind the Valuation: OneBrief and the Race to Own Military Planning
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.
Obsidian + Claude Code. The File-System AI Setup That Changes Everything
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.
An AI Answered a Question About 1834. It Was Right.
San Francisco | January 13, 2026 A student trains an AI exclusively on nineteenth-century London texts, asks it about 1834, and