Artificial Intelligence

Since January 2025, 27 companies have closed seed rounds above $100 million. A year ago, that number was zero.

Judge Lin blocked one of two grounds for the ban. The government-wide supply chain risk designation survives — and contractors are already avoiding Anthropic regardless.

11.7 million downloads. $2.14 million in gross revenue. And Sora was still losing $1 million every single day. That is the math behind OpenAI killing its most hyped product.

Google is now the AI infrastructure while Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta are paying billions to use someone else’s AI inside products they built for a different era. The structural problem isn’t marketing — it’s that none of them has a native AI product people chose to use.

The US built the worlds best AI and ranks 20th in who actually uses it. Meanwhile, ChatGPT and Claude are splitting into two completely different businesses, and that divergence is the real signal for anyone building in this space.

Anthropic warned officials privately that its leaked cybersecurity AI makes mass cyberattacks far more likely in 2026 — without publishing the methodology behind that judgment. Defenders are left with briefings, not frameworks.

Andrej Karpathy has stopped typing code entirely since December. What an AI pioneer building with agents all day reveals about where the technology actually is — and who is paying the price.

A UC Cincinnati and UCLA team trained an RL agent to pick which images a multimodal AI learns from — and found it beats standard similarity search for age prediction and image quality, but not for aesthetics. The dividing line is what you are actually measuring.

Google ran the study, published the results, and found their own AI can shift financial beliefs. Health guardrails held. The policy conversation just changed.

OpenAI shut down Sora. Disney's billion-dollar announcement died with it — no money moved, no deal was ever finalized.

Sam Altman promised Dario Amodei that two colleagues would not have authority over him. Then he made a quiet deal giving them exactly that power. Five years later, the fallout from that broken promise is the central fight in a $300 billion rivalry.