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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Trump's TikTok deal transforms national security divestiture into political reward. Oracle's Ellison gains control over 170M users' feeds while son David runs CBS News—creating unprecedented cross-platform influence spanning social media and broadcast journalism.
Oracle's Larry Ellison is assembling an unprecedented media empire spanning TikTok, CBS, and potentially CNN while maintaining close ties to Trump. This cross-platform consolidation could reshape how political power, algorithms, and journalism intersect in America.
California's two AI bills reveal how industry shapes regulation: AB 1018 faces coordinated resistance while SB 53 enjoys selective support. The contrast exposes regulatory capture in real-time as federal preemption threats loom.
EU moves to block Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from its new financial data system despite Trump's tariff threats. In a rare lobbying defeat for Big Tech, European banks successfully argued for "digital sovereignty" over innovation promises.
Trump's $100K H-1B fee sparked weekend chaos as workers abandoned vacations to race back to the US. The confusion revealed a deliberate shift toward class-based immigration favoring wealth over skills—and competitors are watching.
Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee transforms Silicon Valley's talent pipeline from administrative cost to major budget decision. Tech giants may absorb the 20x increase, but startups face impossible math. The innovation geography is shifting.
Musk's 48-hour job justification ultimatum capped a chaotic summer at xAI marked by executive exodus and management rifts. CFO, general counsel, and co-founder all departed amid concerns over governance structure and financial projections.
Anthropic builds classified AI models for intelligence agencies while blocking FBI and ICE from domestic surveillance use. The contradiction has sparked White House tensions and raises questions about ethical lines in government AI.
Google's £5bn UK AI investment drops hours before Trump's state visit, transforming routine infrastructure into geopolitical theater. The strategic timing reveals how American tech giants are rebuilding Europe's digital backbone.
China announced Nvidia violated antitrust law precisely as US-China trade talks resumed in Madrid. Beijing's regulatory timing exposes the impossible bind facing tech giants caught between competing sovereign demands over AI chip access.
Albania just appointed the world's first AI government minister to handle all public procurement. Diella promises corruption-free contracts as the country races toward EU membership by 2027. But can algorithms resist human manipulation?
FTC orders seven AI giants to reveal how their companion chatbots affect children after teen suicide cases involving ChatGPT and Character.AI. Meta faces particular scrutiny over internal docs permitting romantic chats with minors.
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