A developer gave Claude Code access to 100 books and a simple command: "find something interesting." What came back wasn't summaries. It was connections no hand-tuned pipeline could find.
When Google locked AlphaFold 3 behind commercial restrictions, three MIT PhD students rebuilt it in four months. Now Boltz has $28M, a Pfizer partnership, and a bet that open-source can capture drug discovery infrastructure.
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.
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Seven families sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT drove four people to suicide after a May 2024 design change prioritized engagement over safety. The cases test whether AI chatbots qualify as products under liability law.
OpenAI's CFO floated a federal backstop for AI infrastructure, then reversed within hours after White House rejection. The whiplash exposed the core problem: OpenAI needs $1.4 trillion while generating $20 billion. The math doesn't work.
OpenAI's CFO suggested federal backing for AI infrastructure at WSJ conference, as company seeks taxpayer support for $1.4 trillion buildout against $13B revenue. The ask arrives amid circular tech deals and shutdown-era austerity.
China slashes data center power bills by half—but only for domestic chips. Trump blocks Nvidia's Blackwell exports. Two governments, two subsidy strategies, one question: who can afford their industrial policy longer?
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.
