OpenAI burned $8 billion in six months. Only 5% of its 800 million users pay. Sam Altman once called advertising "a last resort." On Friday, OpenAI reached for it. The era of free-and-delightful ChatGPT is over.
The Trump administration wants PJM to hold an emergency power auction where only data center operators can bid. Fifteen-year contracts, no exit clauses. The grid operator wasn't invited to the announcement.
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AI transcription tools promise to eliminate typing forever. The accuracy has genuinely improved. So why do professionals still reach for their keyboards when it matters? The answer involves hidden trade-offs most vendors won't mention.
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Sarah Chen types 847 emails per week. She knows this because her company's IT department told her, right before suggesting she try voice dictation to reduce her carpal tunnel symptoms. Three months later, she's tested seven different AI transcription tools. Her verdict: "They all promise magic. Most deliver a mess I have to clean up anyway."
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Claude Code hit $1B in six months by doing what ChatGPT can't: reading your files directly. Paired with Obsidian, it transforms years of accumulated notes into an AI-powered research system. Here's how to set it up.
At CES 2026, Samsung's TM Roh promised AI in everything. Twelve days earlier, he told Reuters price hikes were unavoidable. That gap between keynote and confession defines a memory shortage manufacturers have no intention of fixing anytime soon.
A Fortune 500 engineer deleted 47,000 lines of code, replaced them with 212 lines of YAML. AI costs dropped 63%. The routing layer between enterprises and their AI models is quietly becoming the most strategic chokepoint in tech.
Your employees paste customer records and source code into AI tools you've never approved, dozens of times daily. Bans don't stop them—IBM found the habit adds $670,000 to breach costs. The companies winning aren't building higher walls.
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