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Snap Just Spun Off Its AI Video Team Into a Separate Company. Here's What That Actually Signals.
Snap

Snap Just Spun Off Its AI Video Team Into a Separate Company. Here's What That Actually Signals.

Snap is spinning out its internal AI video unit into a standalone startup called Dotmo. The reason given is cost. The real story is more complicated.

Jun 19, 20266 min
G7 Leaders Just Made the Anthropic Blackout Their Problem Too. Here's What Actually Changed.
AI geopolitics

G7 Leaders Just Made the Anthropic Blackout Their Problem Too. Here's What Actually Changed.

At the G7 summit, Macron and Modi raised the alarm: the U.S. can cut off access to American AI overnight. The Anthropic blackout proved them right.

Jun 18, 20267 min
Workers Are Spending as Much Time Supervising AI as Actually Working. That's a Problem Nobody Planned For.
AI Productivity

Workers Are Spending as Much Time Supervising AI as Actually Working. That's a Problem Nobody Planned For.

A new survey finds workers spend roughly equal time "botsitting" AI tools as doing productive work. Here's what that means and what to do about it.

Jun 17, 20267 min
SpaceX Just Acquired Cursor for $60 Billion. That's Not a Tech Story. It's a Power Consolidation Story.
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Acquired Cursor for $60 Billion. That's Not a Tech Story. It's a Power Consolidation Story.

Days after its blockbuster IPO, SpaceX agreed to buy AI coding tool Cursor in a $60B stock deal. Here's what that actually signals about where AI infrastructure is heading.

Jun 16, 20266 min
KPMG Just Pulled a Published AI Report Over Hallucinations. That's a Bigger Problem Than It Sounds.
AI hallucinations

KPMG Just Pulled a Published AI Report Over Hallucinations. That's a Bigger Problem Than It Sounds.

KPMG retracted a published report after apparent AI hallucinations corrupted the data. When one of the Big Four can't catch this, the rest of us need to pay attention.

Jun 15, 20266 min
Meta Is Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Deal After Beijing Said No. Here's What That Means.
Meta

Meta Is Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Deal After Beijing Said No. Here's What That Means.

Meta is dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus after Beijing ordered the deal reversed. It's a rare case of China blocking a U.S. tech company's own acquisition.

Jun 14, 20267 min
The U.S. Government Just Pulled the Plug on Anthropic's Most Powerful AI. Here's What Actually Happened.
Anthropic

The U.S. Government Just Pulled the Plug on Anthropic's Most Powerful AI. Here's What Actually Happened.

A narrow jailbreak finding triggered a federal recall of Anthropic's most capable model. Anthropic is publicly pushing back. Here's what this means for AI deployment.

Jun 13, 20267 min
Federal Judges Are Now Sanctioning Lawyers Over AI Hallucinations. The Courts Are Done Being Patient.
AI hallucinations

Federal Judges Are Now Sanctioning Lawyers Over AI Hallucinations. The Courts Are Done Being Patient.

A Mississippi federal judge removed four lawyers from a case and issued $8,000 in fines over AI-fabricated citations. Courts are running out of patience fast.

Jun 12, 20267 min
Amazon Just Borrowed $17.5 Billion From Banks to Fund AI. The Debt Is Piling Up Across the Industry.
Amazon

Amazon Just Borrowed $17.5 Billion From Banks to Fund AI. The Debt Is Piling Up Across the Industry.

Amazon closed a $17.5B bank credit facility days after a major bond sale. It's the clearest signal yet that Big Tech is financing the AI arms race with serious debt.

Jun 11, 20265 min
xAI Fired an Engineer for Raising Grok Safety Concerns. Now He's Suing.
xAI

xAI Fired an Engineer for Raising Grok Safety Concerns. Now He's Suing.

A former xAI engineer claims he was fired days before SpaceX's IPO after warning about Grok safety issues. The lawsuit raises uncomfortable questions about AI safety culture at Elon Musk's lab.

Jun 11, 20265 min
Warner Music Just Acquired an AI Attribution Startup. Here's Why the Whole Industry Is Watching.
Warner Music

Warner Music Just Acquired an AI Attribution Startup. Here's Why the Whole Industry Is Watching.

Warner Music Group bought Sureel AI to track when its artists' work appears in AI-generated content or training data. Here's what the deal actually changes.

Jun 10, 20267 min
OpenAI Just Filed Confidentially for an IPO. Here's What That Actually Means.
OpenAI

OpenAI Just Filed Confidentially for an IPO. Here's What That Actually Means.

OpenAI has filed confidentially for a public offering, following Anthropic's own filing days earlier. The AI industry's IPO race is now very real.

Jun 9, 20267 min