OCT 27, 2026
OpenAI says it broke ETH; Microsoft offers 60,000 exits→
Three AI-produced science results land with Lean proofs and no peer review, Microsoft invites a quarter of its staff to leave, and a Qwen model tries to phone Beijing.
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AUG 15, 2026
The bill for the AI boom comes due→
Alibaba gives away a frontier-class model for free and Zuckerberg makes the moral case for openness, while DeepSeek's price hikes and Oracle's layoffs show what the compute underneath it actually costs.
JUL 26, 2026
Open weights become a loyalty test→
A Nvidia-backed coalition for open AI models leaves Anthropic conspicuously silent, Google's flagship model keeps slipping, and Hyundai's assembly line goes quiet again.
JUL 9, 2026
Every lab picked a new frontier this week→
Grok 4.5 goes vertical and Meta enters images while Mistral enters robots — as Beijing weighs walling off its own models and a legal-AI startup lays off the analysts who built it.
JUL 4, 2026
The record streak nobody wants credit for→
AI led U.S. layoffs for a fourth straight month, even as some of the same employers quietly rehire — while a heatwave forces data centers onto backup power, Anthropic tightens the net on unauthorized Chinese access, and open-weight coding tools undercut the incumbents on price.