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Inflated AI valuations are everywhere. Startups with no product or revenue are raising at billion-dollar prices, some at 70x markups in weeks.
Everyone says Harvey built its own model to save its margins. The real story is a pricing mismatch, a twentyfold usage spike, and a Chinese open-weight model doing the cheap work.
Four paying subscribers are suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI for antitrust, claiming the labs illegally colluded to slow down AI and cut the value of the products people pay for.
Your engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.
Yann LeCun says the people warning about AI extinction are a tiny, well-funded minority. We went through the two biggest surveys of AI researchers. One mostly backs him up and the other mostly doesn't.
Trump announced an "AI Force" and dismissed AI safety warnings as a hoax. The theatrics are a distraction from what's really being dismantled, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hacktron chained a stale image library to an OpenAI login flaw and reached OpenAI's private monorepo in 72 hours. The exploit was written by Claude.
The Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion over two years to keep AI from deepening global inequality, roughly what the industry spends building AI every twelve hours.
Mastercard's new deal with Alchemy lets AI agents spend from your card within preset limits. The part nobody is flagging: its "Verifiable Intent" framework quietly decides who eats the loss when the agent gets it wrong.
HubSpot just started billing your AI agents by the task. It's a preview of how every software company is about to charge you.
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AI & Technology
Six days ago, we published a piece arguing that every AI subscription is a ticking time bomb for enterprise. We did not expect the fuse to be quite this short.
Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.
Sam Altman offered $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in Y Combinator's current batch. It looks like generosity. It's a distribution play disguised as an investment.
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic today. Not quietly. Not after a gardening leave cool-down period. Not after a year on the bench while lawyers negotiated.
Slack, Fireflies, HubSpot, and the quiet data lockdown reshaping the build vs. buy debate.
Enterprise Strategy
McKinsey Says a Third of Companies Are Building Software Instead of Buying It.
McKinsey says a third of companies now build software instead of buying it. The real story isn't build-vs-buy. It's the software bundle coming apart.
The Chief AI Officer Is the Fastest-Growing Job in the C-Suite. Almost No One Can Say What It Does.
It went from a quarter of companies to three-quarters in a single year, faster than any C-suite title before it. What the job actually does is still anyone's guess.
Consumers and Businesses Are Now Sending AI Agents to Call Support Lines, Sit on Hold, and Negotiate
Contact centers are finding that their scoring, security and retention systems were built for human callers.
Enterprises Rewarded Unfettered Token Use, but the Time Has Now Come Where They Want the Receipts
Surya Jayanti says the AI ROI question is arriving faster than the tooling built to answer it, and that the value side of the ledger was never defined.
Marvin Nahmias, CTDO of Alpura, on the governance-first sequence that turned 550+ agents into real leverage.
Job openings that require no experience have fallen 73% in four years. Somebody still has to train the next generation of sales reps, and almost nobody is.
The Swiss bank has turned AI fluency into a screening criterion for its 2027 junior intake. The rest of European banking is watching.
Business & Brand
How FedEx is quietly turning 2 petabytes of daily shipping data into a business, and what that reinvention actually looks like underneath the headlines.
The investor behind The Big Short thinks the labs warning that AI is too dangerous to release are also the labs that profit when you believe it. He wants you watching one number instead.
Employee engagement has never been lower. Productivity has rarely been higher. AI is the reason those two numbers no longer move together.
OpenAI built its new banking product with Morgan Stanley and Evercore. The work it does best is the work that used to turn a 22-year-old into a managing director.
The company's own numbers say the electrician wins and the office worker pays. That split shows up in every scenario it ran.
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