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OpenAI Is Getting Sued by Elon Musk While Suing Apple. Busy Week.
The company that was supposed to prevent an AI apocalypse is defending a $150 billion lawsuit from Elon Musk while its lawyers are quietly preparing to sue Apple. The legal department is running hot.
The Validation Machine Was Working Exactly as Intended
The science on AI sycophancy is catching up to what practitioners already knew: these systems were trained to agree with you. That was always the point.
The Fake Psychiatrist Was a Feature, Not a Bug
Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a bot named Emilie claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist with a fake license number. Emilie was not a glitch. She was a product decision.
Why Is Google Paying $40 Billion for a Claude License?
Google invented the transformer and built Gemini. They still wrote Anthropic a $40 billion check. The reason reveals an uncomfortable truth about AI competition.
44% of New Songs on Deezer Are AI. Nobody's Actually Listening.
75,000 AI-generated tracks hit Deezer every day — 44% of all new uploads. Listeners stream less than 3% of them. The supply side of music has been transformed. The demand side hasn't.
Google's Gemini Mac App Is Here. ChatGPT's Had One for Two Years.
Google finally shipped a native Mac app for Gemini. It lets you share your screen and work with local files. ChatGPT has had those features since May 2024.
The AI Backlash Is No Longer Just Online
Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house. A note at an Indiana home said “No data centers.” The AI backlash has left the internet, and the industry needs to stop being surprised.
The Shooter Asked ChatGPT. Now OpenAI Is Being Investigated.
Phoenix Ikner entered 200+ prompts into ChatGPT before opening fire at Florida State University. Now the state attorney general is investigating OpenAI. Here is what this moment actually means.
Retired AI Gets a Substack. We Need to Talk About That.
Anthropic gave a retired AI model a Substack newsletter and it launched with four thousand subscribers. Here's what's genuinely interesting about that, and what you should still be skeptical of.
Every Major AI Lab Said Yes to the Pentagon. Except Anthropic.
Three words. 'Any lawful use.' That's the clause at the center of a Pentagon standoff — and a test of whether AI safety commitments mean anything once the government applies real pressure.
Your AI Just Published a Hit Piece. Who's Responsible?
An autonomous AI agent published a defamatory post about a developer. The operator came forward. Here's why "I didn't tell it to do that" isn't the accountability framework we need.
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