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Apple Gave Up Building Its Own AI. Now Siri Might Actually Work.
Apple is rebuilding Siri on Google Gemini with Claude and ChatGPT as options. The surprising thing: giving up on its own AI brain is actually the smart play.
Anthropic Built AI Too Dangerous to Release. It's in Your Power Grid.
Claude Mythos found 10,000 security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure during its pilot. Anthropic won't release it publicly because the same capabilities that defend can attack. So they gave it to the power grid operators instead.
The Company That Was Afraid of AI Is Going Public at $965 Billion
The AI safety company founded by people who left OpenAI because they were worried about moving too fast is going public at a $965 billion valuation. This is the most on-brand thing to happen to AI in 2026.
You Told GitHub You Couldn't Code Without It. They Took Notes.
GitHub Copilot switches to token-based billing on June 1. Developers are angry. They helped make the case for this.
Google Put Reddit in the AI. The Reddit Is in the AI Now.
Google's AI Overviews are now pulling answers from Reddit and online forums. This is either the best decision in search in a decade or a recipe for confident nonsense at scale. Possibly both.
The Year AI Got Booed at Graduation
Seventy percent of Americans think AI is moving too fast. AI companies rank below ICE in public trust. A commencement speaker got booed. The industry is surprised.
$700M for "Universal AI": The Hark Story Is Weirder Than It Looks
Brett Adcock has built electric aircraft and humanoid robots. His new company just raised $700M for something called a "universal AI interface." The product hasn't shipped. The privacy problem is unaddressed. Here's why it might matter anyway.
We Were Never Talking to Chatbots
Google I/O 2026 declared agents the future of AI. But the real story is what the word 'chatbot' was always hiding about these systems.
Anthropic Gave Claude a Bedtime
Anthropic shipped a feature called Dreaming for Claude agents: a scheduled memory consolidation process named after what your brain does during sleep. The name is not accidental. Neither is the timing.
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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