TechCrunch
SoftBank to Spend €75 Billion Making France the Data Center Capital of the World, Probably
SoftBank commits €75 billion to build French data centers, because where else would you store all those AI-generated sonnets about baguettes?
TechCrunch
SoftBank commits €75 billion to build French data centers, because where else would you store all those AI-generated sonnets about baguettes?
The Verge
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot barely registers in government AI adoption records, trailing far behind OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic - awkward timing for SpaceX's $28.5 trillion IPO pitch banking on it.
The Verge
Elon Musk sued Sam Altman over OpenAI's for-profit conversion, the jury said 'too late,' and everyone learned that the AI industry's leaders are about as mature as the guy who gave out jackass trophies.
BBC World
Nvidia smashes revenue and profit records, but investors are so used to perfection that a 1.6% share dip somehow counts as disappointment.
TechCrunch
Anthropic tells investors it might finally turn a profit, just in time for OpenAI to file for an IPO and make everything awkward.
TechCrunch
OpenAI says its new reasoning model disproved a famous 1946 Erdős conjecture - and this time they have actual mathematicians backing them up, not just a deleted tweet.
MIT Technology Review
Chickens hatch from plastic cups, Musk loses to OpenAI, a brain waits in a vat, and AI continues to be both promising and problematic - just another Tuesday in tech.
TechCrunch
OpenAI and Google team up to watermark AI images, because trusting humans to spot fakes has been going so well.
The Musk-Altman trial ended with a jury verdict that didn't resolve much - except that two billionaires can make a courtroom feel very small.
TechCrunch
Anthropic drops $300M+ on a startup everyone loved, then makes it exclusive - turning a shared SDK tool into its own private party favor.
TechCrunch
OpenAI's Greg Brockman officially takes over product strategy, plans to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one big happy AI family, while CEO Sam Altman hits the brakes on side quests like Sora.
MIT Technology Review
In a trial featuring a golden donkey trophy, unflattering mugshots, and a bridge metaphor, a jury must now decide if Elon Musk is a safety crusader or a sore loser - and whether OpenAI ever truly was a nonprofit.
Ars Technica
OpenAI discovers that Apple's idea of a promotional partnership is making users say 'ChatGPT' like it's a magic word, then showing the results in a window the size of a Post-it note.
TechCrunch
OpenAI partners with Plaid to let ChatGPT Pro users connect bank accounts, because who wouldn't want an AI analyzing their spending habits and offering financial advice?
The AI boom is a whipsaw of hype and dread, leaving everyone except true believers feeling like they're being harvested by the future.
BBC Business
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's courtroom drama reveals free Teslas, sperm donations, and a whole lot of 'he said, he said' - because nothing says 'saving humanity' like a billion-dollar hissy fit.
The Guardian Europe
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI goes to jury, with both sides accusing each other of lying, greed, and general billionaire shenanigans.
TechCrunch
OpenAI puts its coding tool Codex in the ChatGPT app, because developers clearly didn't have enough ways to work from their phones.
Ars Technica
In a trial that’s basically a billionaire ego-off, Sam Altman admitted he’s heard people call him a liar, while Elon Musk played the victim - and both revealed they’d ditch the mission if their feelings got hurt.
TechCrunch
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, targeting mom-and-pop shops with AI bookkeeping and ad tools, because even the local hardware store needs a robot to do its taxes.
The Good Times
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