Welcome Who gets to say what AI can and can’t do? The week’s center of gravity was accountability — who gets to say what AI can and can’t do. A federal judge called the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic an “attempt to cripple.” Two separate juries found Meta liable for designing addictive platforms. And OpenAI quietly…
Welcome This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that’s had a hundred years to absorb the things we’re only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what if the…
Welcome The AI spending spree hit a new gear Two stories defined the AI landscape this week — and neither paints a comfortable picture. Meta committed $27B to AI infrastructure in one of the largest deals in tech history, then announced 16,000 layoffs to pay for it. The stock went up. Meanwhile, the first lifelike…
Welcome Yann LeCun just left Meta, raised a billion dollars in four months, and planted a flag in Paris. AMI Labs closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation — Europe’s largest seed ever, second globally only to Thinking Machines Lab’s $2 billion raise last June, according to Fortune. The syndicate reads…
Welcome What happens when we can’t understand the machines anymore? You were a lot to write back last week about the Museum of Human Effort piece, thanks for that feedback and happy to continue the conversation on this 2nd iteration. Alexis This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip…
Welcome Things are pretty serious. AI is totally a geopolitical issue now – and more AI companies have 1 billion seed rounds now Anthropic got blacklisted. OpenAI is the bad guy as users revolted. LeCun walked away from Meta with a billion dollars and a thesis that everyone else is wrong. Oracle said it out…
Welcome 100 years from now in AI a new series by AI Weekly We spend so much time arguing about what’s happening right now that we rarely stop to ask where it all ends up. So once a week, we’re skipping ahead a century and imagining ordinary life in a world that’s had a hundred…
Welcome OpenAI shipped an entire model family in three days. DeepSeek is about to drop a trillion-parameter open-weight challenger built on Chinese silicon. Google’s AI is solving open math problems autonomously. And the hyperscalers are all racing to break free from Nvidia’s grip with custom chips. Meanwhile, the talent wars are intensifying — Alibaba lost…
Welcome AI impact is getting more serious by the day (and it wants to blow us all up) A company told the Pentagon “no” and got blacklisted by the President. A CEO fired half his workforce and told every other company to do the same. And a university study showed that when you hand AI…
In the News 🔥 This Week in AI: Everything that’s moving the AI scene this week The AI world didn’t sleep this week. Chinese labs got caught red-handed stealing from Claude, DeepSeek dodged US sanctions with banned chips, and $2.5 trillion is now pouring into AI — more than the Apollo and Manhattan projects combined….
