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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 dropped a fascinating piece of cognitive dissonance into the AI discourse this week, essentially arguing that artificial intelligence...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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 struck a nerve with her scathing critique of Samsung's AI advertisement, and the overwhelming public response...
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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 just fired 9,000 people from its gaming division, shut down The Initiative studio entirely, and canceled three major games including...