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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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.
The Netherlands seized control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia through coordinated executive rebellion and emergency law—without taking ownership. Three European managers triggered the intervention. Wingtech keeps the profits, loses the power. A new template.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for National Guard troops in San Francisco from his private plane, shocking his own PR team. The theatrical Trump embrace—timed before his big conference—tests whether loud loyalty beats quiet accommodation.
China's rare earth export controls collapsed a Trump-Xi summit and sent markets down 2%. Beijing's processing monopoly—not just mine output—gives it leverage tariffs can't quickly counter. The pattern: announced deals, staggered supply, repeat.
Rishi Sunak will advise rival AI giants Microsoft and Anthropic under ringfencing rules approved by a watchdog closing in days. The appointments test whether political expertise compounds across competitors as market warnings mount and enforcement weakens.
A $2B Nvidia chip buyer operated from empty offices while China announced rare-earth export curbs. The collision exposes how supply chain controls function more as leverage than barriers while billions in restricted tech moves through legal gaps.
OpenAI complained to EU regulators about Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct—despite Microsoft being its largest investor with $13 billion committed. The move signals OpenAI's shift from AI supplier to platform owner, using regulators as leverage.
Washington promotes AI in classrooms. New data shows 19% of high schoolers report romantic AI relationships, 42% use it for mental health support. The more schools deploy AI, the more students feel disconnected from teachers—and from reality.
Germany blocked Chat Control, killing the Council majority needed for mandatory message scanning. The move preserves Europe's encryption advantage but leaves child safety policy unresolved—and exposes the continent's privacy-versus-sovereignty split.
