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SpaceX builds a digital employee

Bits

SpaceX builds a digital employee

Zuck's AI manifesto — with Chinese characteristics

State

Zuck's AI manifesto — with Chinese characteristics

A new kind of computer from OpenAI

Labs

A new kind of computer from OpenAI

Founders are ditching their startups

Bits

Founders are ditching their startups

Texas installs a gatekeeper on its grid

State

Texas installs a gatekeeper on its grid

Sequoia's $6bn bet on a court decision

Dry Powder

Sequoia's $6bn bet on a court decision

How OpenAI ceded video to Google and China

Labs

How OpenAI ceded video to Google and China

Apple wants your iPhone back

Dry Powder

Apple wants your iPhone back

Washington makes the labs partners, not suspects

State

Washington makes the labs partners, not suspects

Why NVIDIA can't let the music stop

Dry Powder

Why NVIDIA can't let the music stop

Jensen bets on secretive AI lab

Dry Powder

Jensen bets on secretive AI lab

The frontier labs sat this alliance out

Labs

The frontier labs sat this alliance out

AI learned to bill like a law firm

Dry Powder

AI learned to bill like a law firm

Google's best AI bet was on a rival

Dry Powder

Google's best AI bet was on a rival

Anthropic wants distillation stopped. It won the case that legalizes it.

State

Anthropic wants distillation stopped. It won the case that legalizes it.

Can the SpaceX playbook work for nuclear?

Atoms

Can the SpaceX playbook work for nuclear?

Germany rearms, and pushes out U.S. VC firms

State

Germany rearms, and pushes out U.S. VC firms

How much do AI data centers actually cost?

Dry Powder

How much do AI data centers actually cost?

The $500M "Everything App"

Bits

The $500M "Everything App"

Anduril builds the aircraft nobody ordered

Atoms

Anduril builds the aircraft nobody ordered

Open weights, frontier price

Dry Powder

Open weights, frontier price

Nobody ever fought the machine

State

Nobody ever fought the machine

Elon Musk bought the bottleneck for himself

Energy

Elon Musk bought the bottleneck for himself

Frontier AI outruns its paperwork

State

Frontier AI outruns its paperwork

The spreadsheet moment for AI

Bits

The spreadsheet moment for AI

Nobody will mark down the 2021 vintage

Dry Powder

Nobody will mark down the 2021 vintage

Jack Dennis, architect of the computer that never arrived

Obituary

Jack Dennis, architect of the computer that never arrived

What the hell is a harness?

Labs

What the hell is a harness?

The shot heard 'round the defense-tech world

Dry Powder

The shot heard 'round the defense-tech world

The moat you can't buy

Atoms

The moat you can't buy

Nuclear fusion finally hits the market––underfunded

Energy

Nuclear fusion finally hits the market––underfunded

The price wars have begun

Labs

The price wars have begun

The memory cartel that no longer has to meet

Atoms

The memory cartel that no longer has to meet

China weighs gating its open-model advantage

State

China weighs gating its open-model advantage

Huawei is losing China's AI labs

State

Huawei is losing China's AI labs

Even Apple can't build chips alone

Atoms

Even Apple can't build chips alone

Alex Karp is right

Labs

Alex Karp is right

To own the customer, Microsoft rents an army

Bits

To own the customer, Microsoft rents an army

OpenAI's 5% would hand the public little money and no power

Dry Powder

OpenAI's 5% would hand the public little money and no power

Meta sells 'excess compute' it doesn't have

Bits

Meta sells 'excess compute' it doesn't have

Mark Warner's first-of-its-kind AI-agent bill carries a catch for tech firms

State

Mark Warner's first-of-its-kind AI-agent bill carries a catch for tech firms

The cap table became the competition

Labs

The cap table became the competition

Scarcity turns the hyperscalers into gatekeepers

Bits

Scarcity turns the hyperscalers into gatekeepers

To earn its multiple, Tesla must start to accept responsibility

Dry Powder

To earn its multiple, Tesla must start to accept responsibility

To keep $1trn valuation alive, OpenAI might delay IPO

Dry Powder

To keep $1trn valuation alive, OpenAI might delay IPO

Trump is regulating AI by presidential veto

State

Trump is regulating AI by presidential veto

Claude wants to steal Slack's secret sauce

Bits

Claude wants to steal Slack's secret sauce

Bernie's plan to nationalize the AI firms

State

Bernie's plan to nationalize the AI firms

Washington flipped Anthropic's kill switch

State

Washington flipped Anthropic's kill switch

SpaceX and the Infinity Story

Dry Powder

SpaceX and the Infinity Story

Funding your own replacement

Labs

Funding your own replacement

AI's big winners draft their own rules

State

AI's big winners draft their own rules

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

Labs

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

AI's risk goes off the books, but still lurks

Dry Powder

AI's risk goes off the books, but still lurks

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

Bits

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

Anthropic won't sell you its best model

Labs

Anthropic won't sell you its best model

Wall Street learns to short the AI boom

Dry Powder

Wall Street learns to short the AI boom

Apple rents the brain, keeps the moat

Bits

Apple rents the brain, keeps the moat

Meta's $200 agent nobody asked for

Bits

Meta's $200 agent nobody asked for

Money for nothing

Bits

Money for nothing

Anthropic calls for a pause (sort of)

Labs

Anthropic calls for a pause (sort of)

Anthropic's offensive AI lands inside the NSA

State

Anthropic's offensive AI lands inside the NSA

Mayo Clinic gets a frontier model

Labs

Mayo Clinic gets a frontier model

Trump's AI order ties the government's hands

State

Trump's AI order ties the government's hands

Even Google is running out of cash

Dry Powder

Even Google is running out of cash

NVIDIA hedges against its own data centers

Atoms

NVIDIA hedges against its own data centers

The cheaper AI got, the more it cost

Bits

The cheaper AI got, the more it cost

France's nuclear reactors become its AI moat

State

France's nuclear reactors become its AI moat

Robinhood wants to own agentic trading

Dry Powder

Robinhood wants to own agentic trading

Google quietly captures the AI trust layer

State

Google quietly captures the AI trust layer

Ford's new business is being American

Energy

Ford's new business is being American

Memory leaves the cycle

Atoms

Memory leaves the cycle

CATL closes the loop on AI compute

Energy

CATL closes the loop on AI compute

Anthropic's cost stack arrived on schedule

Labs

Anthropic's cost stack arrived on schedule

Humanoid robots join the no-fly list

Atoms

Humanoid robots join the no-fly list

Blue Origin's first round, courtesy of SpaceX

Dry Powder

Blue Origin's first round, courtesy of SpaceX

Karpathy will make Claude train Claude

Labs

Karpathy will make Claude train Claude

South Korea drafts the AI petrostate

State

South Korea drafts the AI petrostate

Wispr's vanishing moat

Dry Powder

Wispr's vanishing moat

Blackstone, AI's universal landlord

Dry Powder

Blackstone, AI's universal landlord

OpenAI lawyers up on Apple

Labs

OpenAI lawyers up on Apple

The Vatican enters AI governance

State

The Vatican enters AI governance

OpenAI traded privacy for a verdict

State

OpenAI traded privacy for a verdict

Defense tech's borrowed clock

Dry Powder

Defense tech's borrowed clock

The $2 Billion Researcher

Labs

The $2 Billion Researcher

Alphabet's spinout machine is the new venture fund

Dry Powder

Alphabet's spinout machine is the new venture fund

LPs have bought the wrong multiple

Dry Powder

LPs have bought the wrong multiple

Amazon's battle over its own search bar

Bits

Amazon's battle over its own search bar

Mira Murati bets against the autonomous agent

Labs

Mira Murati bets against the autonomous agent

The AI summit

State

The AI summit

The Indispensable Pariah

State

The Indispensable Pariah

Is Apple giving up on privacy?

Bits

Is Apple giving up on privacy?

Ramp's $40bn fundraise is an inside job

Dry Powder

Ramp's $40bn fundraise is an inside job

A tale of two dividends

State

A tale of two dividends

AI's first union arrives in London

State

AI's first union arrives in London

Anthropic builds a vertical-agent factory

Labs

Anthropic builds a vertical-agent factory

Arm becomes SoftBank's spine

Atoms

Arm becomes SoftBank's spine

SaaS surrenders to the Palantir playbook

Bits

SaaS surrenders to the Palantir playbook

Even AI losers are winners

Dry Powder

Even AI losers are winners

The last thing ChatGPT was supposed to become

Labs

The last thing ChatGPT was supposed to become

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