The man who predicted the 2008 crash sat in a Google Doc with Anthropic's co-founder. Both admitted what they don't know. Burry sees stranded assets and accounting tricks. Clark can't prove his own tools improve productivity.
Hollywood calls it bootlegging. Investors say $6.5 billion. MiniMax built the top Chinese AI app in America—then Disney sued. With 70% of revenue overseas, the startup tests whether Chinese AI can scale while depending on Western courts.
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Google launched a research agent and wrote the test that grades it. Unsurprisingly, Google's tool leads the leaderboard. Competitors must now replicate Google's search infrastructure or accept permanent disadvantage on web research tasks.
Disney sent Google a cease-and-desist for AI copyright infringement on Wednesday. On Thursday, it handed 200 characters to OpenAI's Sora and wrote a billion-dollar check. The logic reveals how Hollywood plans to survive the flood.
Google announced AI glasses for 2026. But the real story is the third product: wired XR glasses running Samsung's $1,800 headset chip in a pocketable form. Google doesn't want to sell you glasses. It wants Android on your face.
Google's AI Mode doesn't match ads to keywords anymore. It reads its own AI-generated answers and decides what you meant to ask. Two decades of SEO expertise just became obsolete. The advertising industry hasn't noticed yet.
OpenAI claims ChatGPT saves workers an hour daily. MIT found most AI deployments return zero value. Harvard researchers coined "workslop" for AI output that looks professional but advances nothing. Whose data should enterprises trust?
Tim Cook built Apple's leadership into a monument of stability. In 2025, that monument cracked. Meta poached AI and design chiefs with $25M packages. The chip architect may follow. What broke inside the world's most valuable company?
The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement—months after signing an AI licensing deal with Amazon. Perplexity built revenue-sharing programs for publishers. The Times declined to join any of them. Now lawyers are involved.
Chinese hackers operated inside U.S. VMware servers for 17 months undetected. The malware repairs itself when deleted. It hides where most security teams don't look. CISA's December 4 advisory exposes an architectural blind spot in enterprise defense.
Werner Vogels ends his 14-year keynote streak by handing out printed newspapers and warning developers about "verification debt." His parting message: AI generates code faster than humans can understand it. The work is yours, not the tools.
Meta is cutting its metaverse budget by 30%. Wall Street cheered. But the money isn't disappearing—it's moving to AI glasses and wearables. Is this fiscal discipline or just the same spending habit with a new label?
Meta's stock jumped 5.7% on news of metaverse cuts. Investors celebrated Zuckerberg walking away from his $70 billion bet. But the day before, Meta hired Apple's top designer for Reality Labs. What's actually happening here?
Google's Workspace Studio promises AI agents for everyone, no coding required. But the real story isn't about capability. It's about distribution. And why enterprises still can't get employees to actually use the AI tools they've already paid for.
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