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Google's real AI problem isn't models — it's a $965B poaching magnet
You can own the biggest research bench in AI and still watch your best people walk out for the pre-IPO cheque.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran a 28.8M-exchange raid on Claude. Alibaba says no.
A record-breaking number, dropped in a letter to Congress, the same week Anthropic wanted Washington's help. Convenient — and unproven.
Google said Gemini 3.5 Pro was 'next month'. The month's over.
Flash shipped. Pro got a date-shaped promise. Guess which one you can actually use.
OpenAI's science week: the results are real — and so are the asterisks
Four announcements in 48 hours. The claims check out. The fine print is the story.
AI voice got great. Now the fight is the business model.
Quality is basically solved. Whether you rent the voice or own it — that's the real divide in 2026.
Open weights caught the frontier. The moat is leaking.
When you can download a near-top-tier model for free, 'exclusive access' stops being a business.
Qwen quietly won open-source AI — then half-closed the door
The most-downloaded open model family also just shipped its first closed flagship. Read the signal.
The government switched off the world's best AI model over a bug it won't show us
Three days. That's how long Fable 5 lasted before Washington pulled the plug.
Kimi K2.7-Code: an open model that actually shipped its weights
After months of 'open-weight, weights pending', a refreshingly literal release — and a benchmark caveat you should read before tweeting the number.
Mistral wants €20bn. The valuation is the pitch.
Double the price in months — on revenue that's real but a long way from the number.
Humanoid robots: less sci-fi, more spreadsheet
Ignore the backflip videos. The only number that matters is how fast a robot reaches its second paying job.
Anthropic says 'slow down' — five days before shipping Fable 5
A coordinated pause that would conveniently freeze the race with Anthropic near the front.
Decart's world model is real — and narrow on purpose
It dropped the sci-fi 'simulate anything' pitch for something that might actually sell — and the caveats are the whole point.
Fable 5 is here. The benchmark flex is real — the moat isn't.
The chart goes up. That's the easy part.
Apple's big AI reveal quietly runs on Google's Gemini
The privacy company's flagship AI is, at its core, a rented model. That's the actual story.
OpenAI files a week after Anthropic, and nobody can agree what it's worth
$730 billion? $850 billion? A trillion? Pick a number — they did.
xAI's new model animates one photo into video — 'preview' is the word doing the work
Cinematic video from a single still, at 720p, in preview. Impressive — and genuinely unfinished.
The US just made the chip ban follow the owner, not the address
Spin up a subsidiary in Singapore? Doesn't matter anymore. The rule asks who your parent is — and Commerce quietly admitted it failed to ask for a year.
Anthropic wants to go public on a number you're not allowed to see yet
$965bn valuation, $47bn run-rate, one confidential filing. Spot the asymmetry.
Lamp Dating vs Tinder, Hinge and Bumble: Why the Swipe Apps Lose in 2026
The swipe apps are all the same broken model. Lamp Dating is built differently — and here are the receipts.
MiniMax shipped an 'open-weight' model with no weights. Bold.
Frontier claims, vendor benchmarks, and a Hugging Face link that wasn't there yet.
GitHub Copilot's new bill is a metered surprise
The 'unlimited' AI assistant just discovered it has a meter after all.
Opus 4.8: the benchmarks crept up, but the fast mode is the actual upgrade
Five points on a coding benchmark. A 2.5× speed-up. Guess which one you'll actually feel.
Sesame's voice AI sounds great. Will anyone keep using it?
Naturalness was the easy problem. Habit is the one that kills voice apps.