Is It Ironic If Amazon Is Shredding Books?
Stripe locked in a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter, and OpenAI leased a 10GW Ohio campus with Nvidia backstopping it. The Journal found $3T in off-balance-sheet AI commitments, an AirTag caught Amazon shredd...
17 Aug 20min
The Model A Day Podcast
China's labs kept coming: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed Mythos-5-level cyber chops and DeepSeek's V4-Pro landed to mixed reviews. OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory of your Mac, the Journal flagged $121B in paper ...
14 Aug 20min
AI 50% Off!
Anthropic's investors talked up a $2T+ October IPO, even as data showed Fable 5 barely selling. Google cut prices on Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI previewed a 14× faster tier, Trump enlisted private hacker...
13 Aug 20min
New Pixels
Google's Pixel event dominated, with the Pixel 11 line, a $1,899 Pro Fold, and a $399 Watch 5 packed with Gemini and health trends. SpaceXAI closed the day out by dropping Grok 4.6, which it says matc...
12 Aug 19min
Watermarking AI
Anthropic said new Claude models will watermark generated text to satisfy the EU AI Act, and it's out courting investors for a possibly record-breaking IPO. Apple's glass iPhone stayed on track, YouTu...
11 Aug 19min
Open AI Needs To Pause?
OpenAI paused its Astra model over cyber capabilities it can't rule out, while Zvi picked apart the Hugging Face timeline. Zuck went open-weight with a 6,500-word manifesto, iPhone 18 Pro parts got pr...
10 Aug 19min
A Different Kind Of AI Virus
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $942M over harms to kids, with a trillion-dollar trial next. ByteDance started pretraining a 10T-parameter model, AMD bought Taalas to etch weights into silicon,...
7 Aug 19min
Meta Can Code Too!
Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Goog...
6 Aug 20min
