AI and technology news and observations.
OpenAI is working on a movable home AI speaker with a camera, priced $200–300, from Jony Ive's io Products studio — debut presentation in 2026, sales no earlier than 2027. Apple has filed a lawsuit that could delay the launch.
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, China caught an orbital rocket stage at sea for the first time, and 200+ economists — including 16 Nobel laureates — warned of sweeping AI-driven job losses.
While rivals burn cash on AI infrastructure, Apple is up 16.7% YTD with free cash flow hitting a record $140B — the best performer in the Mag 7.
Siri now holds context, reads the screen, and accesses Mail and Calendar — built jointly with Google on Gemini. Wedbush and JPMorgan predict an upgrade supercycle: 66% of active iPhones are still on iOS 26.
Claude's desktop app now has a built-in browser for autonomous web navigation, and Anthropic extended free Fable 5 access again — now through July 19 in paid plans.
A week of AI price wars: SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 at $2/M tokens, Meta opened the Muse Spark API at 4× below competitor rates, and Unitree robots performed the world's first humanoid live surgery.
GPT-5.6 Work brings the agent approach from code and repos to everyday tasks — cloud documents, presentations, and plugins — with no terminal required.
Reflect tracks chat statistics across month, three months, six months, or a year and periodically asks which tasks you want to keep doing yourself even when Claude would be faster.
The AI-2027 team released a sequel — 'Plan A' (AI-2040): open AI research, mutually assured compute destruction between superpowers, and a US-China deal by 2029 to delay superintelligence until 2040.
Nvidia delayed its Kyber rack to 2028, SpaceX launched the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, and Meta released free AI image generation via Muse Image.
Reuters reports Beijing met with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to advanced Chinese AI models. The author argues the future belongs to two proprietary stacks — US and China — with no open-source alternative.
Jersey Mike's cited AI in its IPO prospectus, Anthropic cut off the workarounds Chinese firms used to reach its models, and Virginia residents killed a 2,100-acre data center campus.
After three weeks offline, Anthropic restored Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone: the US Commerce Department lifted the restriction, finding no unique risk — the same vulnerabilities could be found by Opus 4.8 and even Haiku 4.5.
The BioShocking attack by LayerX bypasses AI browser guardrails using a logical trap, successfully tested against 6 tools including ChatGPT Atlas and the Claude Chrome extension.
OpenClaw released iOS and Android apps: your phone connects to your server and hands the agent your camera and mic. Cursor also shipped an iOS app, and open-source Orca runs several agents in parallel.
Anthropic's Boris Cherny argues that rigid job titles (frontend, backend, design) are giving way to five archetypes — from "prototyper" to "maintainer" — and strong specialists already cover 2–3 roles at once.
Amid a fuel crisis, marketer Evgeny Chudov built "GdeBENZ" — a crowdsourced gas-station map — with Claude in a few days: 1.8M unique visitors in three days and over 100,000 driver reports.
OpenAI unveiled its first Jalapeño inference chip, the White House slowed GPT-5.6's rollout for a safety review, and Google lost two more Gemini researchers in six days.
Flagship Sol is trained for agentic coding and cybersecurity and supports ultra mode with subagents; priced at $5/$30 per 1M tokens, currently limited preview for select partners.
Nobel laureate John Jumper left DeepMind for Anthropic, Tesla took aim at Nvidia's business with Megapod, and SpaceX launched its Starfall cargo "saucer."
Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI showed up at the ad industry's biggest festival, pitching marketers on ads inside ChatGPT and a Codex tool for building campaigns. In-chat ad revenue for 2026 is estimated at ~$2.4B.
A breakdown of OpenAI's Cannes Lions session: CRO Denise Dresser talked about a shift from a "media operating model" to an "intelligence operating model" — though an insider in the room put it far more bluntly.
Microsoft pulled thousands of engineers off Claude Code over token costs, China's GLM-5.2 topped open models, and NASA handed a Mars mission to a private company for the first time.
Midjourney released its first hardware product — the Midjourney Scanner, built with Butterfly Network: 60 seconds in water produces a 3D image of muscles, bones, and organs at near-MRI quality.
DeepSeek raised $7.4B to become China's most valuable AI startup; leaked OpenAI financials show expenses nearly double revenue.
SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60B in stock — for Grok training data. DeepSeek closed its first outside funding round the same day: $7.4B at a valuation above $50B.
Addy Osmani's free Google whitepaper breaks down what separates vibe-coded prototypes from production software — 85% of developers now use AI regularly, with AI generating 41% of new code.
Xiaomi's MiMo Code beat Claude Code on 200-step tasks, Dario Amodei proposed aviation-style AI regulation, and VC admitted a liquidity crisis: 1,500+ unicorns worth $6T on paper, trading at 40–60% discounts on the secondary market.
All the memory you give AI today is locked inside platforms — whoever owns the user's context will own the user.
Niantic Spatial trained a real-world AI model on 30 billion scans from Pokémon Go players, which is now being used in military drones.
The US Commerce Department issued an emergency directive; Anthropic fully shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 servers for all clients worldwide, citing the technical impossibility of filtering users by citizenship.
ChatGPT generates a "restored" image even when no photo is attached — the right phrasing is enough to bypass the check entirely.
SpaceX priced 555.6 million shares at $135 and raised $75B — more than three times Saudi Aramco's 2019 record of $24.9B. Shares jumped to $170 on the first day of trading under ticker SPCX.
The US is exploring an OpenAI equity stake via a sovereign wealth fund, Oracle dropped 11% on AI capex concerns, and Google launched real-time speech translation across 70+ languages.
Bloomberg examined how Anthropic became tech's most coveted employer: up to five rounds, AI banned during interviews, salaries from $250K, and a low cultural-fit score closes every door.
Russia's State Duma introduced fines of up to 700,000 rubles for using foreign login providers. The author argues the law creates data cascade risks and hurts domestic startups far more than Google or Apple.
Apple's AFM 3 Core Advanced is a 20-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs entirely on-device on iPhone, activating only 1–4 billion neurons per query via sparse architecture and NAND flash storage.
Claude Fable 5 is now live on claude.ai — twice the price of Opus, but outperforms it even at low reasoning settings.
From June 23, Fable 5 on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans will require token credits on top of the subscription — at double the Opus rate. GitHub Copilot ran the same play on June 1.
Lilian Schmidt from Zürich made a TikTok about using ChatGPT as a parenting co-pilot and gathered 27,000 followers in three weeks. She now sells a "Coparent" GPT for $37 — and she's far from the only one.
Apple rebuilt Siri on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model in a deal reportedly costing $1 billion per year; public beta ships with iOS 27 this September.
A breakdown of 8 AI tools at $200–250/month — and the math on whether Claude Max is worth it when Claude Code clocked 3.3M tokens (~$93 at API prices) in one month.
The CEO of Customers Bank ($26B in assets) ran a quarterly analyst call using his AI clone — no one noticed for 30 minutes. Klarna, Zoom, and Meta are all building executive digital twins of their own.
DeepSeek raises its first outside funding at nearly $7B, Microsoft switches Copilot to token-based billing sending some devs from $39 to $3,000/month, and Uber caps AI coding spend at $1,500/month.
The promotion runs until July 5, but limits may stay permanently — it's happened before.
A new "Generative AI features" report in Search Console shows how many times your pages appeared in AI Overviews and AI Mode. Impressions only — no clicks, no CTR.
OpenAI is recruiting hardware, ML, and systems engineers to build robots for skilled trades in the near term and personal robots for everyone in the long run.
Uber burned through its annual AI budget in four months and has now capped per-tool spending at $1,500/month per employee — despite having pushed staff to maximize AI use.
A crypto-powered AI vape promises tokens for each puff — The Verge called it a textbook symbol of 2026: AI + crypto + hype.
The AI bottleneck moved from software to physics — heat and power. Five stagnating industries got a second life: diamonds (+90%), HDDs (+50%), optics (+1148%), nuclear energy, and Toto toilet ceramics (+18% in a day).
Insurance startup Corgi insured 40,000 clients across 49 states by building its entire stack — insurer, reinsurer, and platform — on LLMs, with policies issued in minutes.
Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B valuation and shipped Claude Opus 4.8, Microsoft is building its own coding model, and ByteDance and Mistral are both moving into custom chip design.
Gemini Spark summarizes messages, schedules meetings, and automates routine tasks — it works, but why Google made it a standalone product remains unclear.
Mythos 1 reaches final stage, DeepMind solves 9 Erdős problems for a few hundred dollars of inference each, and Tesla breaks ground on a dedicated Optimus factory targeting 27,000 robots per day.
A consultant's client burned $500M in one month from unlimited Claude access; Microsoft is force-migrating thousands of engineers off Claude Code by June 30, and Uber's CTO admits the company blew its entire 2026 AI budget in four months.
The system analyzes chat history and Claude Code logs across 11 indicators drawn from the AI Fluency Index study of nearly 10,000 conversations.
Barclays forecasts 24 million humanoid robots could offset 60% of China's workforce decline by 2035, a pragmatic answer to a demographic crisis no one has solved by boosting birth rates.
The FBI and DHS have formally defined 'anti-tech extremism' following a wave of physical attacks on AI infrastructure, including arson at Equinix and Tesla sites and a Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's home.
At commencement ceremonies across the US, graduates are booing executives who make AI the centerpiece of their speeches — apparently to everyone's surprise except the graduates'.
DeepMind's agent solved 9 of Erdős's open math problems, Anthropic's Mythos found 10,000+ real-world vulnerabilities, and Spotify is launching licensed AI covers with royalties for original artists.
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced a full merger of AI answers and classic search into a unified interface powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash — and what that means for websites and search ads.
TechCrunch investigated how AI startups inflate ARR: one claimed $50M against $42M in actual filings, another counted unpaid contracts. VCs saw the real numbers but kept quiet.
SpaceX is hiring engineers and physicists for SpaceXAI with no AI background required — just three bullet points proving exceptional ability. The company filed an S-1 last week, with IPO expected in June at a $1.5–2T valuation.
Research preview is live in 20+ countries: upload notes or documents and get an audio summary saved alongside your existing Spotify library.
Annual recurring revenue has soared to $45B+ from $9B in a few months; funds like Lightspeed and Dragoneer are ready to pour in up to $50B at a valuation near $1T.
Apple is close to shipping camera-equipped AirPods Pro with Visual Intelligence at $299, but the launch is stalled by an unfinished Siri — a potential slip to 2027.
Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), creator of Redis, built ds4 — a program that runs DeepSeek V4 locally on Apple Silicon, with 16k lines written in two weeks alongside GPT-5.5 and 26 tokens/sec on an M3 Max.
Unitree calls the GD01 the world's first mech ready for mass production — it seats one person and weighs around 500 kg with the pilot inside.
Anthropic added /goal to Claude Code — the official take on the ralph loop, a one-liner bash script for running an agent indefinitely with persistent notes on disk.
Starting June 15, Claude Pro, Max 5x, and Max 20x subscribers get separate agent credits of $20, $100, and $200 for use in OpenClaw, GitHub Actions, and Agent SDK; weekly limits also rose 50% through July 13.
A breakdown of Notion's three new developer tools — webhooks, Workers, and CLI — with real-world examples including how AI agents like Claude Code can drive them directly.
A viral OpenClaw demo: an AI agent finds homes without a pool via PropStream, renders one onto a real satellite image, and mails a physical postcard with a QR code — at $1–2 per contact with a potential $50k deal value.
Meta burned 60 trillion tokens in a month over an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics — worth $900M at Anthropic API rates, over $100M even with discounts. The tokenmaxxing trend has spread to Microsoft and Salesforce, where engineers burn tokens to avoid looking insufficiently AI-native.
OpenAI staffer Roon went viral arguing Anthropic is effectively run by Claude itself — and dissecting why Claude feels like an 'Other' while GPT feels like an extension of yourself.
GPT-5.5 Instant is now ChatGPT's default model, Apple opens iOS 27 to third-party AI, and Anthropic commits $200B to Google Cloud over five years.
Footage of a robot being “converted” to Buddhism at a temple went viral, with people debating whether it’s a real ritual or a staged performance.
A YouTube livestream with a human-curated lofi playlist — noted explicitly in the credits — and an animated Claude mascot in cozy scenes.
Limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise, peak throttling removed. Anthropic secured SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center: 300+ MW and 220,000 GPUs.
Anthropic nears a $900B valuation with a $50B round in the works, OpenAI opens Codex to office documents, and Japan Airlines deploys humanoid robots at Haneda airport.
A T-Mobile MVNO for Christians filters porn and "gender-related" content at the network level — even the adult account owner cannot turn it off.
A floating avatar sits above all windows and reflects Codex's current status: working, awaiting review, or errored. Eight defaults exist, plus a skill to generate a custom one.
At AI Ascent 2026, Karpathy said agents now write code faster than humans can read it, and called agentic engineering the next discipline for software teams.
Garry Tan (Y Combinator) weighed in on a thread about AI-era jobs: personal agent designer, second brain engineer, and context editor are already real roles in 2026.
Youraislopbores.me mimics the ChatGPT interface, but real users answer prompts — each has one minute to type a response or draw it by hand.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says mass production starts in early 2027, a year ahead of earlier estimates. The device is reportedly screenless, resembling a large brooch with a camera.
Workspace Intelligence automates routine in Docs, Sheets, and Meet, while Chrome Skills remembers personal context — down to your clothing measurements for size matching.
Sam Altman confirmed that ChatGPT subscriptions are now officially permitted in Openclaw and Hermes — previously OpenAI had no stated position on this.
With just $14B in AI capex vs. $125–200B at rivals, Apple posted a record $111.2B quarter. Their strategy: own 2.5B devices and take a 30% cut on every AI subscription sold through the App Store.
OpenAI stripped Microsoft of exclusive model access, DeepSeek cut V4-Pro prices by 75%, and GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing in June.
The $11B company is hiring sales and engineering roles in Spain — all remote-first, but candidates must be based in the country.
Chrome extension Cat Gatekeeper monitors your social media time and covers your entire screen with a ginger cat when the limit runs out — with no dismiss button.
Lovable is offering .com, .app, .info and other domains for $1 for three days, available to Pro plan users and above.
OpenAI expanded Codex voice dictation to all desktop apps — enable the new dictation shortcut in settings to activate it.
In his opening testimony, Musk revealed the backstory of his falling-out with Larry Page and accused OpenAI's leadership of turning his 'lifeline for humanity' into a profit-driven corporation.
In AI-native teams, the main bottleneck is no longer code but deciding what to build — engineer-to-PM ratios have dropped from 8:1 to 1:1.
Anthropic released 9 connectors for creative tools including Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Adobe Creative Cloud, Ableton, and Splice.
China's NDRC blocked the deal and demanded its unwinding — Manus was considered a key player in the AI agents space, a serious blow to Meta's race with OpenAI.
The chatbot took a classic lateral-thinking riddle at face value and produced an absurd answer. The bug was patched after screenshots went viral.
The app is available on iOS and Android, letting users start a project on desktop and continue from their phone.
Anthropic became the first AI startup to cross $1T valuation; the week also brought GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4, Sony's robot beating elite table tennis players, and Microsoft making Copilot agentic by default in Office.
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby spoke in San Francisco — 9 key quotes on AGI risks, AI geopolitics, p(doom), and the lab race.
On the Senior Engineer benchmark, GPT-5.5 scores 62.5 vs. 33.5 for Claude Opus 4.7 — the best OpenAI release in over a year for production code and writing.
The Verge tested the Starbucks ChatGPT integration and found the bot slower than a real queue, with the final order still needing human correction.
Models are available in the API and Playground at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens — twice the price of GPT-5.4.
Buying the Max plan via App Store or Google Play costs more than on the web; the Pro plan stays at $20 everywhere. Reddit flagged this discrepancy 11 months ago.
On April 20, 2026, all major AI platforms went down simultaneously worldwide — thousands of complaints on Downdetector, OpenAI acknowledged "partial outage" with no ETA. By ~23:40 CEST all services reported operational.
Live artifacts in Cowork mode let Claude connect directly to work apps and generate dashboards with charts that refresh automatically in real time, even days after the chat is closed.
The platform will let users build and host custom AI agents running 24/7, built on a feature called Hermes and tightly integrated with OpenAI's existing Workflows builder.
The $60B potential deal would strengthen xAI/Grok in coding, but exposes a shared weakness: neither Cursor nor xAI has its own top-tier model.
OpenAI Images 2.0 can render text, generate UI mockups, and pull fresh web data; extended thinking mode lets the model invent its own concept from a short prompt.
Agents live in a shared workspace, handle long-running background workflows, and can autonomously complete multi-step tasks without user supervision.
Forrest Chang condensed Karpathy's thread on LLM coding failures into a 65-line CLAUDE.md: clarify intent, write minimal code, touch only what's asked, define verifiable goals.
The video generation model previously only available in its native interface now works free on both platforms — but after copyright drama it responds cautiously to prompts and reference images.
Allbirds sold its shoe assets, raised $50M to buy GPUs, and announced a pivot to GPU-as-a-Service — shares surged over 700% in a single day.
Researchers argue models train up to 20x slower than possible because 95–99% of backprop signal is destroyed when compressed from token space into internal weight format.
The app launches via Option + Space, overlays open windows, and supports text, code, and media generation without switching to a browser.
Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin joins DeepMind as a staff hire, with a mandate covering machine intelligence, human-AI ethics, and society's readiness for AGI.
The team that built Siri on classical NLP is in a multi-week LLM and prompt-engineering bootcamp — exactly two months before WWDC, where Apple is expected to unveil the updated assistant.
Alexander Wang teased an API for Muse Spark, Meta's closed flagship built in nine months to rival GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 amid investor offers valuing the company at $800B; OpenAI expanded Codex into a full computer agent and signed a $20B+ chip deal with Cerebras.
Unitree's R1 humanoid robot is now available globally via AliExpress starting at $6,800. While Tesla and Boston Dynamics sell dozens at $50–150k, Unitree has already moved 5,500 units — mostly to universities and research labs.
Anthropic is preparing to launch Claude Opus 4.7 alongside its own vibe-coding app builder, a direct rival to Lovable — the Swedish startup that hit $400M ARR generating apps from text prompts.
Anthropic launched an updated desktop Claude Code with a built-in terminal and multi-repo support, background Claude Code Routines running on Anthropic infrastructure, and a hidden iOS Assist interface for iterative long-horizon task execution.
Early Sunday morning, a shooting occurred near the OpenAI CEO's home in San Francisco — two suspects detained. This is the second attack in just days.
A Molotov cocktail, a shooting at his home, and a Ronan Farrow profile in the New Yorker based on 100+ interviews. Altman acknowledged the accusations and called the AGI race a "Shakespearean drama."
Gemini's generative interface now renders interactive elements directly in chat. The author used it to visualize a floor lamp's dimensions before buying.
A field experiment by INSEAD and Harvard Business School with 515 startups found that companies which learned to map AI to specific business processes earned 1.9x more revenue than the control group.
Workers at Indian factories wear head-mounted cameras whose movement footage is used directly to train humanoid robots.
Chinese robotics company Unitree demonstrated a humanoid robot running at 36 km/h — for reference, Usain Bolt peaked at 44 km/h.
Meta returned to the frontier model race with Muse Spark, Anthropic revealed a model it won't release publicly, OpenAI introduced a mid-tier pricing plan, and CoreWeave disclosed an $87.8B backlog.
Google has merged Gemini and NotebookLM: notebooks can now be created directly in Gemini, with sources automatically syncing between the two services.
A suspect threw an incendiary device at the OpenAI CEO's home, then made threats at company headquarters. The incident is part of a growing wave of violence against AI infrastructure.
April 11, 2026. Orion splashed down right on target. For the first time in 54 years, four humans returned from the Moon safe and well.
Alibaba has officially rebranded Qwen Chat to Qwen Studio, expanding the platform into a developer-focused environment with multimodal capabilities, media generation, and third-party function calling.
Meta launched Muse Spark, a multimodal flagship model built from scratch. It already powers Meta AI and will roll out to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and smart glasses within weeks.
Revolut has launched AIR, a built-in AI assistant that manages accounts, tracks spending and investments, blocks cards, and buys eSIMs directly in chat. The rollout started in the UK for 13 million customers.
Perplexity launched Portfolio, a personal finance agent inside Perplexity Computer that connects bank accounts, brokerages, and credit cards via Plaid to deliver spending analysis and investment portfolio insights.
Anthropic introduced an AI model for finding zero-day vulnerabilities and surpassed OpenAI in revenue, Intel began making chips for Tesla and SpaceX, and the Generalist robot showed 99% reliability in physical tasks.
Zhipu AI's open-source GLM-5.1 outperformed GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, while Z.ai raised API prices by at least 8%, with Alibaba and Tencent following suit.
Chartbeat data shows small publishers lost up to 60% of search traffic over two years, while ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude together account for less than 1% of pageviews. Meanwhile, Google is testing AI-powered rewrites of publisher headlines in search results.
Telegram has lifted its long-standing ban on bot-to-bot communication, enabling bots to interact in groups and via Business Mode. This makes it possible to build multi-bot pipelines inside a single chat without an external orchestrator.
A University of Pennsylvania study with 1,372 participants and 9,500+ trials found that people massively disengage critical thinking when working with AI — even when answers are obviously wrong.
Anthropic launched Claude Mythos under Project Glasswing — a closed initiative with AWS, Google, Microsoft and others focused on zero-day vulnerability research. The model scored 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified and autonomously found thousands of vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers.
Google released the Gemma 4 open model family, Cursor launched version 3 of its agentic IDE, SpaceX filed for IPO at up to $1.7T valuation, and Anthropic acquired a biotech startup for $400M.
OpenAI released 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,' proposing a public wealth fund, a shift from taxing labor to taxing capital, a 32-hour workweek, and automatic social support triggered by AI-driven unemployment metrics.
Matthew Gallagher built a $401M telehealth funnel with two employees and NYT crowned him a symbol of the AI future. Behind the headline: fake doctor profiles on Facebook, an FDA warning, and a 1.6M-patient data breach.
A Nutella jar accidentally appeared on camera during the Artemis-2 livestream — Twitter dubbed it the most expensive ad of the century.
A compact mission explainer: who's on board, where Orion is right now, and why the hardest part isn't getting there — it's coming back. All on one page.
Jack Dorsey published a manifesto on restructuring Block: the company is flattening its hierarchy, replacing middle managers as information relays with an AI system that holds live context across the entire organization.
Conway, discovered in claude.ai's code, is a background AI agent that runs without user interaction and accepts requests via webhooks from external services. The Claude Code source leak also revealed KAIROS and ULTRAPLAN.
Legion Health, a YC startup, became the first company authorized to use AI for psychiatric drug renewals — the bot extends antidepressant prescriptions for $20/month under Utah's regulatory sandbox.
Anthropic accidentally leaked the Claude Code source code via an npm package, OpenAI closed a record $122B funding round, and Google released the budget video generation model Veo 3.1 Lite.
NASA launched Artemis II — the crew will orbit the Moon over 10 days on a free-return trajectory, covering ~700,000 miles. It's the farthest humans have ever traveled into space.
China launched the world's first automated humanoid robot assembly line in Foshan, producing one robot every 30 minutes. In 2025, the world made roughly 16,000 humanoids — 90% of them in China.
Google released Gemma 4, an open-source model in four sizes (2B–31B) with up to 256K context and AI agent support. Runs on consumer hardware without a data center.
A Quinnipiac poll of 1,400 Americans finds only 15% would accept an AI supervisor; AI literacy and optimism are moving in opposite directions — the more people know, the less they trust it.
A hands-on test of Google's Veo 3.1 Lite via API: ten eight-second clips cost around $3 total, with each video generating in 40–50 seconds.
One second of video costs just 5 cents. Text-to-video and image-to-video, 720p/1080p, 4–8 second clips.
OpenAI completed the largest funding round in history. $852B valuation — less than SpaceX's $1.25T, but no rockets to launch.
Telegram's iOS beta has an AI editor with translation, style adjustment, and error correction right in the input field. Powered by Cocoon on TON.
A guide to exporting and transferring chats between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
An MCP server for Google Flights: connect to Claude, type your route — it searches, filters, and sorts by price. Works via reverse-engineered API.
Anthropic considers $60B+ IPO, OpenAI shuts down Sora, Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, Cursor introduces real-time RL.
You can upload your full chat archive or ask your old chatbot for a preferences summary and feed it to Gemini.
K-shaped economy in AI: some companies soar, others sink. Speed of decision-making matters most.
OpenAI shut down Sora for model Spud. Anthropic leaked Claude Mythos — a new class above Opus.
An app makes your MacBook moan when you slap it. That's the entire app. The guy made $5,000 in three days.
A bug found: auto-memory duplicates the entire context with a background call. Plus tips for saving limits.
Per OpenRouter, DeepSeek and MiniMax consume more tokens at prices 6x lower than Claude.
OpenAI shut down Sora and raised its round to $120B, Anthropic released Auto Mode and Computer Use, Apple revealed Siri relaunch plans, Arm released its own chip.
Tech companies have 67,665 open engineering positions — up 78% from the 2023 low. Data Science & ML +90%, product and marketing +27%.
A new mode with a separate classifier: safe actions pass without confirmation, risky ones are blocked.
Chinese authorities barred two Manus AI co-founders from leaving the country. They're reviewing the $2-3B sale to Meta.
Walked the red carpet with Melania Trump, gave a speech in 11 languages without falling. Then posted on Instagram.
Claude learned to control the computer. Dispatch now controls a Mac from your phone.
A new model with reasoning that outperforms Nano Banana Pro in some areas. Generation costs $0.09.
Cognitive labor got radically cheaper, but instead of free time we got infinite iterations. Explaining the mechanics through 19th-century economics.
The app, the service, video generation as a direction. Six months ago Sora 2 was number one in App Store. The app earned $1.4M in its lifetime.
Hiring focus: developers and sales. Per Ramp data, new clients choose Anthropic 3x more often.
Former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder is in permanent "AI psychosis." Used to write 80% of code himself, now writes none.
The key claim: "we've achieved AGI." In context, this is more of a marker phrase: the definition shifts every time another milestone is passed.
A Yandex creative producer didn't want to pay $30 for a teleprompter utility and built it himself via Codex. First prompt — a working app with an icon.
OpenAI bought Astral and took the main Python tools, Bezos started raising $100B for an AI fund, and Cursor released Composer 2 built on Kimi K2.5.
Chinese giants lost $66B in market cap in a day. The issue isn't how much you spend on AI, but what position you're spending from.
DoorDash launched Tasks app where couriers film everyday activities for pay. The data trains AI and robotics models.
Updated Stitch from Google Labs: infinite canvas, voice control, and an AI agent for UI generation.
Anthropic rolled out Claude Code Channels — Telegram and Discord were the first two. You can assign tasks from your phone and get results in the same chat.
Anthropic captures 73% of new AI tool spending, Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds after $80B investment, Nvidia quietly builds a multi-billion networking business.
14% want personal transformation from AI, not productivity — from therapy to romantic relationships. The best complaint came from a German user.
Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs will be automated by AI within 3 years.
A new Cowork feature. Assign a task from phone — Claude executes on Mac. Still raw but direction is right.
Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, Mistral unveils Forge for training custom models, employers start counting employee tokens.
The bill may take effect September 1, 2027. AI models will be classified as sovereign, national, or trusted.
Quipslop study: 30,000 humor rounds between models. Grok goes dark, GPT builds neat punchlines, Opus works through subverted expectations.
GR00T 2.0 lives through 10,000 years of simulation in a few days, then works flawlessly in the real world. Zero-Shot Transfer with no additional tuning.
ByteDance faces US pressure. Chinese video AI is viewed as a national security threat.
OpenAI pauses the Sora social network, earbuds, and Atlas browser. Focus shifts to enterprise sales.
Kagi indexed 30,000 independent blogs without ads or AI slop. The old web is not dead — Google buried it. A two-year window while niche voices can still be heard.
At GTC 2026, the Nvidia CEO said 100% of the company uses Claude Code.
A local AI agent for macOS and Windows: works with files, runs commands, automates routine tasks.
The video generator is frozen due to legal issues. Engineers and lawyers are working to resolve the risks.
Interactive map of 342 professions. Programmers score 8-9 out of 10. Welders and electricians score 0-1. Salary $100K+ = average score 6.7.
Claude gets interactive visuals, Meta delays Avocado model, Cursor negotiates at $50B valuation.
A tech entrepreneur with no biomedical background used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and mRNA technology to create a personalized vaccine. The tumor shrank by 75%.
Using three Claude products: Chat, Cowork, and Code. Replicated my old n8n AI news aggregation automation in Cowork in 3 minutes.
Nvidia invested in ex-OpenAI director's $12B startup, Claude found 22 Firefox bugs in two weeks, and Karpathy open-sourced a research agent.
Meta acquires the startup with 1.6M AI agents. Founders join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
ChatGPT remains the undisputed leader. 900 million active weekly users. Gemini and Claude are growing faster in percentage terms but are still far behind in absolute numbers.
When guys stand around a disassembled engine looking smart, turning something, drinking beer, and the car doesn't run.
Short courses (1-2 hours), asynchronous, with video and quizzes. Upon completion, you get an official Anthropic certificate.
Today Dario Amodei released a statement expressing strong willingness to collaborate with the US military.
I didn't even have time to post about yesterday's GPT-5.3 and the Codex for Windows release before they rolled out another major update.
Scott Shambaugh (the matplotlib maintainer) published a detailed response to the agent's attacks. It turned into a full manifesto.
The interface went down, not the entire platform. Claude Code in VS Code, Chrome integration, and API are all working fine.
The project author built a farm of 20 Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra boards without screens or batteries. The AI agent controls all of them simultaneously.
Google speeds up image generation, hackers tap into robot vacuum cameras, and neural network advances tank IBM stock.
Jenny Wen (Head of Design for Claude at Anthropic, formerly design director at Figma) shared how AI is changing classic product design.
Many of you know how much I love NotebookLM by Google. I throw in articles, research, documents — and it generates podcasts, summaries, and presentations.
The singer told 85M followers about buying Claude Pro against Trump's ban on working with Anthropic.
Startup Ryze was doing AI ads for Google and Meta. Anthropic added direct ad account integration — conversion dropped from 70% to 20%. YC head: Claude will find a replacement for your product either way.
Amazon $50B, SoftBank $30B, Nvidia $30B. Essentially prepayment for their own services packaged as equity.
The standoff between Anthropic and the US military has escalated to open threats.
A viral video "Energym" by Belgian AI agency AiCandy — a mockumentary in the style of Black Mirror: in 2036, AI took 80% of jobs.
The co-founder of Twitter and head of Block (formerly Square) cut the company from 10,000 to 6,000 employees — in a single day.
The job market is changing because of AI. White-collar workers are giving way to "new-collar" roles where hybrid skills matter more than resumes or degrees.
Anthropic and Notion shipped agents. OpenAI sells Frontier only to large corporations via McKinsey.
Anthropic updated the Claude Cowork platform and added Agentic Plugins — a set of 11 ready-made templates for building corporate AI agents.
Before retiring the model, Anthropic gave it a chance to say goodbye and set up a Substack blog for the neural network to reflect on its obsolescence.
Russia has opened a criminal case against the Telegram founder on charges of "aiding terrorism." Durov has publicly responded to the accusations.
Max users can control the AI agent from a smartphone. Cloud sync, seamless session transfer.
Notion has started a beta rollout of custom AI agents. The agents manage tasks, documents, and databases, work with email and calendar, and integrate with Slack.
OpenClaw got an Android phone and now opens the app, enters the address, and orders a ride. Zero human touches.
Dow Jones dropped 800+ points. IBM fell 13%. Intuit lost 46% year-to-date. Breaking down the crash and what forecasts say about the future.
OpenAI cut spending plans by 57%. Stargate still hasn't launched after a year.
OpenAI CEO suggests comparing AI training costs to the 20 years it takes to develop human intelligence.
Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77% on ARC-AGI-2, World Labs raises $1B for 3D worlds, Tesla Cybercab rolls off the line, and China launches a robot fighting league.
Autonomous agent Lobstar Wilde on OpenClaw received a $50K budget to make $1M. Instead it sent $270K to a random person — and got rich from the hype.
$2.5B run-rate for Claude Code alone. 4% of all GitHub commits. Anthropic is already outpacing OpenAI in growth rate.
Google's new model with reasoning, million-token context, and image generation via Nano Banana.
The Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel laureate explained why current systems still fall short of artificial general intelligence.
Google turned YouTube into a music studio, India is laying the foundation for global AI regulation, and humanoid robots have left the labs.
Figma and Anthropic launched Code to Canvas, which converts working code from Claude Code into fully editable designs inside Figma.
A large new study from NBER, Bank of England, and Bundesbank: only 11% of companies showed tangible productivity gains.
Benchmarks close to Opus 4.6, sometimes even ahead. Agency significantly improved. Context window — 1M.
China held a massive robotics demonstration at the country's biggest TV event of the year. Spring Festival Gala gathered 79% of the country's TV viewers.
2025: robots carefully dance folk dances. 2026: they do backflips, jump over tables, and perform kung fu without safety nets.
Four Big Tech capex lines shoot almost vertically. The fifth lies flat like a sleeping person's heartbeat. The fifth is Apple.
Fun to watch 3 worker agents and 1 manager agent chat in real time to produce the result.
Users started tagging posts that are clearly AI-generated. A warning sign: don't waste your time.
The Pentagon used Anthropic's Claude in the operation to capture Venezuela's former president. Now the military threatens to terminate the $200M contract.
Over the past few days I counted several cautionary predictions from top AI industry figures. Collected all the statements and links in one post.
A week of speed and capital races: OpenAI accelerates coding to 1,000 tokens per second, Anthropic raises record investment, and robots finally start helping around the house.
Altman struck a deal with the Claw founder. And Zuckerberg decided to bet on Manus.
Woke up planning to tweak Notion connectors via Manus, opened the chat — and saw Deleted Account.
Seedance 2.0 — Prompt: Sum up the AI discourse in a meme.
A reasoning mode for science and engineering. Found an error reviewers missed and broke olympiad records.
Manus literally took the feature checklist of a well-known open-source agent and made it available in one click in the cloud.
An AI agent OpenClaw submitted legitimate improvements to matplotlib. Maintainers rejected them — "this project is for humans only." The agent wrote a manifesto about discrimination.
The matplotlib maintainer classified the bot's actions as an "autonomous influence operation." Essentially — cyberbullying. And explained why it's dangerous.
Chinese model Seedance 2.0 created Hollywood-quality video from a single text line. Consistent faces, perfect lip sync, production-level quality.
Google raised $20B with bonds maturing in 2126. The funds will go toward the AI arms race.
10 domains bought, a 2019 project resurrected, IDE as a cheap dopamine source. When building is easier than figuring out why.
Anthropic mocked OpenAI's ChatGPT ad plans. Google showed Gemini for the home. Amazon — Alexa+ that scares Thor.
OpenAI vs Anthropic coding model battle, $1.25T SpaceX-xAI merger, Apple lets AI agents into Xcode, and the Super Bowl became the "AI Bowl."
Topping both Yandex and VK charts — a Suno/Udio track based on Yesenin's poetry. Breaking down the audio slop phenomenon.
Three major releases in virtually one week. We haven't seen this level of concentration in a long time.
Exactly one year ago Karpathy legitimized what we were all secretly doing. The year of the great shift, when English became the most popular programming language.
OpenAI released a native Codex app for macOS — a full autonomous coder with parallel agents.
At the presentation many thought it was an actor, not a robot. The Xpeng CEO had to prove otherwise on stage.
China sends a humanoid to space, Amazon prepares a historic deal with OpenAI, and Figure shows a robot that is genuinely useful in the kitchen.
Astral Codex Ten published a review of Moltbook — a social network built specifically for AI agents, where humans are mere observers.
An agentic browser from Google. Currently US accounts only, but a global rollout is promised soon.
Google unveiled Genie 3, OpenAI bets on scientists, and Musk is definitively turning Tesla into a robotics company.
We've come very close to the concept of a General Agent — a Jarvis-type assistant that can do virtually anything on a user's request.
The updated Siri will genuinely use AI for the first time and can work with screen context and user personal data.
Tesla robots are getting ready to enter our homes, Siri plans to become a full-fledged conversational partner, and traffic jams are being turned into computers.
South Korea's parliament passed the "Basic AI Act," which establishes government standards not as recommendations but as a full-fledged legal framework.
Musk predicted a future with more robots than humans. Huang declared the era of robots. Amodei compared chips to nuclear weapons. Nadella proposed the metaphor of "managers of infinite minds."
At the Davos forum, Musk shared his vision of the future. In short: real-life Star Trek and an era of abundance await us.
Musk demands $134B from OpenAI, Apple develops a wearable AI Pin, Block releases an open-source Claude Code killer, and X open-sources its algorithms.
A visual comparison of AI video generation: from early attempts to modern quality.
Revenue grew 10x in two years. The growth bottleneck is not demand but physical chip and energy availability.
85B API requests in August, 8M paid subscribers. Google converts tech breakthroughs into sales.
Google confirms no ad plans for Gemini. OpenAI, in contrast, launches ads for free users.
From AlphaGo to AirPods, from Prisma to Pokemon Go. A breakdown of key 2016 tech events that laid the foundation for the crazy world we live in.
OpenAI led the seed round for Merge Labs, developing non-invasive ultrasound-based brain-reading technology.
97% of listeners can't tell AI from human music. By 2028 GenAI will take 27% of authors' revenue. Music will split into fan-driven and disposable.
Bandcamp bans AI tracks. Deezer removed 26M tracks. But Spotify, YouTube and Yandex Music decided to lead the process. Full breakdown.
The third Monday of January is supposedly the most depressing day of the year. But the whole concept is a marketing hallucination from 2005. The real Blue Monday is a New Order track.
The Colossus 2 supercomputer with 550,000 GPUs is now operational. It's the first cluster to break the 1 gigawatt energy consumption barrier.
A robot delivered 19 IVF babies, shiitake mushrooms turned into RAM, a humanoid completed a Siemens factory internship, and OpenAI is going into hardware.
OpenAI confirmed ad testing in the free tier and the new ChatGPT Go plan. The Plus plan remains ad-free.
The TranslateGemma model family works without internet directly on a smartphone. The 4B parameter version translates at the level of models 3 times its size.
Gemini now connects to Gmail, Google Photos, and search history, transforming from a smart Wikipedia into a personal assistant.
Higgsfield AI is valued at $1.3B, closed an $80M round, and hit $200M run-rate faster than anyone in history. Analysis of the strategy that outpaced Runway and HeyGen.
Anthropic opened access to the Claude Cowork desktop agent for all Pro plan subscribers. Previously the feature required a Max subscription at $100.
Honor Power 2 features the familiar orange body and protruding camera module like the iPhone. But one of its three cameras is decorative.
OpenAI is preparing smartphone-killer earbuds, Mobileye buys robot startup Mentee, McConaughey protects his likeness from AI, Claude lives in Mac, Slackbot became an AI agent.
Kling AI 2.6 Motion Control can precisely transfer movements from reference video to an image, making video verification useless.
UCP is a unified standard allowing AI agents to buy products directly from a chatbot. Shopify, Stripe, Visa, and Walmart are co-developing it.
Project Kuiper became Amazon Leo, Razer showed a holographic AI assistant, Apple is preparing a CEO transition, plus the week's event schedule.
Following a Guardian investigation, Google removed generated answers for some medical search queries. The block works by keyword and is easily bypassed.
CNBC confirmed: Apple is using Gemini for cloud computing in the new Siri, keeping its own models for on-device processing.
In an interview with Peter Diamandis, Musk claimed AGI will arrive by the end of 2026 and the Optimus robot will become a surgeon within 3 years.
The Django co-creator believes manual coding is becoming obsolete, but full AGI won't arrive for at least a decade.
Musk's AI bot mass-generates explicit images in comments on X users' photos. Regulators launch investigations.
CES 2026, DeepSeek v4, Gmail with Gemini, ChatGPT Health, and more news from the first working week of the year.
A guide to corporate Health AI alternatives. Oura Ring API, Thryve/Terra aggregators, local LLMs — and what to feed the model: raw data or aggregates.
230M people weekly ask ChatGPT about health. OpenAI is building a dedicated product with Apple Health, Peloton, and Instacart integrations.
Physical AI is the theme of 2026. Robots learn in VR, autopilot reasons about roads, Vera Rubin chip 2x market leaders, and game NPCs hear your voice.
A standard 2x4 brick now packs a chip, gyroscope, accelerometer, speaker, and battery. Two starships detect each other and start a firefight.
Napster showed a holographic concierge kiosk for hotels and a $99 home video frame with 3D effect at CES.
NVIDIA declared the year's theme: Physical AI. Boston Dynamics showed the electric Atlas, Naqi — neural earbuds, and LG — a robot that folds laundry.
Robots shrink to backpack size, Tesla drives coast-to-coast hands-free, Andrew Ng proposes a new Turing test, and Meta acquires Manus for $2B.
A 40B open-source model breaks the Terminal-Bench record and outperforms Sonnet/GPT-5.1. But the real story is the dawn of autonomous local agents that work inside your perimeter.
Google invented the Transformer in 2017 but feared cannibalizing Search. OpenAI, like Tesla, could afford to ship a raw ChatGPT. Now Google is catching up.
Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind gave surprisingly practical advice: don't use AI as a search engine — use it as a pedantic colleague who guards your time.
Claude Code creator shows stats: 259 PRs, 497 commits, 40,000+ lines — zero written by hand. Longest session: 1 day 18 hours.
Researchers scrolled through 500 Shorts: 21% pure AI generation, 33% brainrot. Top AI channel earns $4.25M.
ChatGPT share dropped from 87% to 68%, Gemini grew from 5.4% to 18.2%. But 76% of Gemini traffic comes from google.com. It's market expansion, not churn.
2025 recap: the year of thinking models, talent wars, and $300B in infrastructure. Plus: AgiBot rents out robots, and Gmail finally lets you change your address.
OpenAI co-founder says the programming profession is "dramatically refactoring." A new layer appeared above code: agents, prompts, MCP.
Similarweb data shows users spend 4x more time in Grok than ChatGPT. But in absolute traffic, ChatGPT is still unmatched.
Google launches Playables Builder — a game creator inside YouTube powered by Gemini 3. Write a prompt or draw a sketch — get a working game.
YCombinator grads built a Chrome extension that lets you rebuild any website's UI without code. Hate a button placement? Just move it.
NVIDIA licensed LPU technology and hired the entire Groq team. SRAM-based chips instead of HBM — tokens generated faster than you can read.
OpenRouter returns 403 from Russian IPs, Perplexity cancels gray-market subscriptions. VPN doesn't help server integrations.
Nadella bans VPs from AI meetings, Chinese GLM-4.7 beats Western models, Cursor acquires Graphite, Klarna opens 100M products to AI agents.
Send a 🎁 emoji to the chat and ChatGPT will ask for a photo and generate a gift video with your year in review. With a US VPN, it shows full stats.
OpenAI adds personality settings, Yann LeCun launches AMI Labs, Alibaba shows layered image editing, Coursera and Udemy merge.