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July 30, 2025: Runway's Aleph transforms video editing, OpenAI's Study Mode revolutionizes learning, NotebookLM adds video summaries, and Ideogram nails character consistency. The creative industry just changed forever.

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The Week AI Broke a Bunch of Stuff

July 30, 2025 will be remembered as the day four AI breakthroughs arrived simultaneously and shattered every assumption about what's possible in...

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Why China's AI price war with models cheaper than DeepSeek is unsustainable venture-funded theater that ignores basic economics and unit cost realities.

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The Great AI Cost Illusion: Why China's Price War Is Unsustainable Theater

There's something deliciously absurd about watching an entire industry lose its collective mind over pricing that defies basic economics. This week's...

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Tesla's $16.5B Samsung chip deal reshapes global semiconductor power. Why this partnership signals the end of TSMC's monopoly and the dawn of a new tech alliance.

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Tesla's $16.5B Samsung Bet

Elon Musk doesn't make small moves—he makes seismic ones. This week's confirmation of Tesla's $16.5 billion chip manufacturing deal with Samsung...

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Doug Fiefia's appointment to lead a national AI task force represents Utah's triumph over federal attempts to stifle state innovation in AI regulation. This victory could reshape how America approaches emerging technology governance.

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Doug Fiefia's Appointment to Lead a National AI Task Force

Sometimes the most important political victories happen before most people realize a battle was even being fought. While the tech world obsesses over...

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Reflection AI's decision to name their workplace monitoring agent

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The Asimov Sacrilege: Tech Bros Co-opt a Master's Legacy

Isaac Asimov would be spinning in his grave fast enough to power a small data center. The legendary science fiction author who gave us the Three Laws...

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Google's historic $3 billion hydropower agreement with Brookfield marks a positive step toward clean AI infrastructure, but the scale of energy demands ahead requires exponentially more ambitious solutions.

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Google's $3 Billion Hydropower Deal: A Drop in the Ocean of AI's Energy Appetite

Google just dropped $3 billion on what it's calling the world's largest corporate clean energy agreement for hydroelectricity, securing up to 3...

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Jensen Huang's optimistic take on AI job displacement clashes with dire predictions from other tech leaders. History suggests the truth lies somewhere in between—but the stakes have never been higher.

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The Great AI Job Debate: When Silicon Valley's Optimist Meets Reality

Jensen Huang dropped a fascinating piece of cognitive dissonance into the AI discourse this week, essentially arguing that artificial intelligence...

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AI bands like Velvet Sundown are getting millions of plays while real musicians can't survive on streaming. The music industry has become a multi-hustle nightmare where artists are everything except musicians.

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Musicians, Welcome to the Post-Streaming Economy

Remember when musicians made money from music? Quaint concept, right? Like believing in unicorns or thinking Facebook cares about your privacy. The...

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Meta's shift from open-source AI to commercial enterprise solutions with Clara Shih and Scale AI represents a calculated pivot toward a $3 trillion market opportunity. The undervalued stock is primed for a major re-rating.

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Zuckerburg: 1 - Wall STreet: 0

Finally, someone gets it. While Wall Street analysts have been hand-wringing about Meta's "massive AI spending" and questioning the return on...

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Meta Implements a Price Model (And So It Begins...)

We all saw this coming from the moment Mark Zuckerberg started playing the benevolent tech saint, didn't we? The guy who built his empire on...

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"AI Will Replace Everyone" or "it's Just Hype"? We're Exhausted

We're not just in a hype cycle—we're in a hype whiplash. Every week brings a new "revolutionary" breakthrough that supposedly changes everything,...

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Goldman Sachs pilots autonomous AI coder

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Goldman Sachs Hires Its First AI Employee

We've arrived at the moment every dystopian sci-fi writer has been waiting for: Goldman Sachs just hired its first non-human employee. Not a...

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McDonald's AI hiring bot exposed 64 million applicants with

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McBreach: The 64 Million Reasons Why AI Is a Security Nightmare

Let's talk about the most expensive Happy Meal in history. McDonald's AI hiring bot just served up 64 million job applicants' personal data to anyone...

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OpenAI's Chrome-challenging browser could topple Google's search monopoly, but with users already getting AI-powered answers, is this $6.5 billion bet solving the right problem?

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OpenAI's Builds a Browser to Compete With Google Chrome

The most expensive game of digital chicken just got more interesting. OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered web browser that will challenge...

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Turkey's ban on Grok for insulting Erdogan reveals both the promise and peril of AI regulation—a necessary first step that highlights the impossible task of governing borderless intelligence.

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Turkey's Grok Ban: A Moment of Clarity in the AI Wild West

Sometimes the canary in the coal mine speaks Turkish. Turkey's unprecedented decision to ban Elon Musk's Grok chatbot after it generated offensive...

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Super Micro's European expansion reflects both AI infrastructure boom and strategic hedge-betting amid market volatility—a calculated move that signals broader shifts in global technology supply chains.

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Super Micro Computer's European Expansion

When Super Micro Computer CEO Charles Liang announced plans to ramp up European manufacturing at the Raise Summit in Paris, he wasn't just responding...

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Elon Musk's Colossus supercomputer reveals the dark side of unregulated AI development—environmental destruction, community exploitation, and the dangerous precedent of tech titans operating above the law.

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When Titans Play God: The Colossus Catastrophe and AI's Reckoning

Here's a fun fact about modern American capitalism: when you're rich enough to buy politicians and own the literal town square, environmental law...

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François Chollet's vision for AGI through test-time adaptation and meta-learning sounds compelling, but his optimistic timeline and benchmark claims deserve serious skepticism.

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François Chollet's AGI Vision Sounds Impressive But...

François Chollet, the AI researcher behind Keras and the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) benchmark, has laid out an ambitious vision for...

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Guardian columnist Emma Beddington's viral takedown of Samsung's AI pasta sauce ad exposes deeper cultural anxieties about artificial intelligence replacing human common sense in marketing.

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Everything Wrong With Samsung's AI Pasta Sauce Ad

Guardian columnist Emma Beddington struck a nerve with her scathing critique of Samsung's AI advertisement, and the overwhelming public response...

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Nokia's AI-powered energy efficiency solution in Indonesia reveals how artificial intelligence is becoming the secret weapon in telecommunications' sustainability battle, transforming the green race into an intelligence race.

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Nokia's AI-powered Energy Efficiency Solution in Indonesia

While Silicon Valley obsesses over who builds the smartest chatbot, Nokia just quietly won a different kind of AI race—one that actually matters for...

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Microsoft's latest 9,000-person gaming layoffs aren't just corporate restructuring—they're the opening salvo of AI's systematic elimination of human game developers.

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Microsoft's latest 9,000-person gaming layoffs

Microsoft just fired 9,000 people from its gaming division, shut down The Initiative studio entirely, and canceled three major games including...

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