Three years into the productivity promise, there’s finally enough hard evidence to answer the question plainly: does working with AI actually make you more productive? Yes — spectacularly, for some people on some tasks. And no, or worse, for others. The gains are real. They’re just not flowing where the marketing said they would. This…
The cutting edge, and the cutting edge already on the clock. On the frontier this week: OpenAI shipped its strongest model to ~20 vetted partners, DeepSeek open-sourced the tricks that make models fast, and a new paper squeezed more reasoning out of far less memory. The edge also left the screen: humanoid robots got their…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of running 25,000 fake accounts to pull nearly 29 million conversations out of Claude — then took the evidence to the White House. That was just the opening shot in a week the labs spent at war with everyone, including each other: poaching Google’s top Gemini minds, watching their own developer tools…
Ten days after Washington pulled Anthropic’s top models from foreign hands, the bill came due. This week Beijing blacklisted 56 American firms, Anthropic’s own filing admitted the trigger was a routine coding request rival models can run, and Microsoft’s CEO warned that letting “a few models eat everything” won’t survive politically. The export war just…
This is 100 Years From Now. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the war that won’t have a country in it.
Four days after Washington cut foreign access to Anthropic’s top models, the fallout is clear — and it’s flowing to everyone but Anthropic. Cohere says it’s drowning in government inbounds, DeepSeek just closed a record $7.4B round, and China’s labs are slashing token prices up to 99%. The export control meant to protect America’s AI…
The US government yanked Anthropic’s newest models days after launch, while state attorneys general opened formal process against OpenAI. That turns frontier capability into something investors have to discount: a model can be state-of-the-art on Monday and policy-frozen by Friday. The market still wants the upside, but the asset now has a kill-switch.
Visa just wired ChatGPT to shop and pay on your behalf — an AI agent can now buy at any Visa merchant without you clicking “buy.” It capped a week where the labs pushed autonomy and capital to new highs: Anthropic put Claude Fable 5, its most powerful public model, into everyone’s hands; Jeff Bezos…
Musk takes SpaceX public Friday at $1.75 trillion, the largest IPO ever. Look past the rocket and you find the actual wager: an AI arm that lost $6.4 billion last year, a plan to put a million data-center satellites in orbit, and a valuation that has more than doubled since December. Below: how the pieces…
AI and chip stocks shed roughly $1.3 trillion on Friday, the semiconductor sector’s worst day since 2020, after a hot jobs report spiked interest-rate fears and Broadcom’s outlook rattled the chip trade. The sharpest people in finance flatly disagree on what it means: the bubble finally cracking, or profit-taking after a euphoric run. Here is…
