Ilya Sutskever helped prove that scale works in AI. Now he says it doesn't—and his $3 billion company is betting the future belongs to researchers with ideas, not labs with the biggest GPU clusters. The industry isn't ready for this argument.
Silicon Valley promised AI would democratize creativity. New research tracking 442 participants found the opposite: people who were more creative without AI produced better work with it. The gap didn't close. It may have widened.
Enterprises are spending billions on AI pilots, but MIT's research shows most deliver no return. It's not the technology failing. The gap between impressive demos and working systems comes down to data quality, technical debt, and organizational readiness.
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Microsoft won the first Trump-era export license to ship advanced Nvidia chips to the UAE, clearing a path for billions in data center spending. The trade: chip access for binding oversight that converts private infrastructure into alliance architecture.
OpenAI's targeting a $1 trillion IPO by 2027—the largest in history. The restructure that made it possible gave Microsoft 27% and a revenue share. Now comes the hard part: convincing public markets to fund Altman's $1.4 trillion infrastructure vision.
Trump and Xi cut tariffs 10% and paused rare earth controls for a year. Soybean orders resumed. Nvidia's Blackwell speculation collapsed. The one-year truce relieves immediate pressure but sidesteps structural forces driving U.S.-China decoupling.
OpenAI secured California's approval to restructure after Altman promised to stay. The deal preserves nonprofit control on paper while enabling a $500B+ IPO path. Critics note the governance paradox: the same board oversight that failed once.
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia to replace 'biased' Wikipedia. The site crashed, then returned with articles copied word-for-word from Wikipedia itself. The irony runs deeper: AI-powered alternatives depend on the human knowledge bases they claim to surpass.
Australia's regulator says Microsoft pushed 2.7 million subscribers toward pricier AI plans by hiding a cheaper option inside the cancellation flow. The case tests whether essential software providers must disclose alternatives as clearly as upgrades.
Trump canceled federal deployment to San Francisco after calls from Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Salesforce's Marc Benioff. Other cities—Chicago, Memphis, Portland—face ongoing operations. What changed? The cities without billionaire CEOs on speed dial.
China just dropped a decade-long industrial blueprint while Washington demands short-term deals. The five-year plan doubles down on tech self-reliance as rare-earth tensions spike. Two powers, two clocks, shrinking deal space.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff learned that $1 billion in local donations doesn't buy permission to call federal troops into San Francisco—not when 25-year friendships end and fellow billionaires publish op-eds on moral laundering.
Salesforce pitched AI to help ICE triple its enforcement workforce while CEO Marc Benioff embraced Trump—and a 25-year friendship fractured. Internal docs show optimization logic applied to deportation hiring. The bind: federal revenue meets reputational cost.
OpenAI's new expert council will advise on AI safety—but won't decide anything. The timing reveals the strategy: FTC inquiry in September, wrongful death lawsuit in August, council formalized last week. Advisory input without binding authority.
Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money. When free credit ended in 2022 and regulators pushed back, tech billionaires chose Trump over constraints.
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