Alibaba’s earnings report this week reads as two companies stapled together. One is dying slowly. The other is eating everything in its path. The headline numbers look contradictory. Net income collapsed 76% year-over-year to 10.54
Every major AI lab ships a model with a safety card, a red-teaming report, and a usage policy nobody reads. Schools got none of that. There’s no changelog. No patch notes. No onboarding flow for
Relay shut down this week. Automation startups fold constantly, so that part isn’t news. What deserves attention is where its founder landed: not another startup, not a stealth AI lab, but Google’s Chrome team. That
Wynd Kaufmyn spent her last free evening tailoring an old pair of jeans. It was her 69th birthday. The next morning, she walked into San Francisco’s Hall of Justice. She turned herself in to serve
Everyone keeps calling China’s open-weight AI models “generous.” That framing misses the point entirely. At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this year, Xi Jinping pitched low-cost, open-source AI as a gift to the
Every AI provider racing to comply with the EU’s new transparency rules faces the same design puzzle. How do you tag machine-generated text without wrecking the writing itself? Anthropic answered that question in a company
A tech founder in Los Angeles stands next to himself. Not a photo. Not a video call. A hologram, built from his own recorded voice and mannerisms, that answers questions at trade show booths while
xAI didn’t just ship another chatbot update this week. On August 11, 2026, the company launched Grok Bot in early beta. The framing tells you where the agent wars are actually heading. This isn’t a
An employee pastes a client contract into ChatGPT to summarize it. Nobody told them not to. Nobody told them they could, either. That gap — the space between what employees actually do with AI and
A phrase is circulating in medical education circles this year that deserves more attention: never-skilling. Not deskilling — that implies a doctor who once reasoned clearly and has since gone soft. Never-skilling is worse. It