Musk Loses Cofounders. Software Loses Its Model.
Six of twelve xAI cofounders gone as company burns $1B monthly. Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M seed. Software stocks lose $285B to AI agents.
Musk Loses Cofounders. Software Loses Its Model.
Six of twelve xAI cofounders gone as company burns $1B monthly. Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M seed. Software stocks lose $285B to AI agents.
xAI Loses Half Its Founding Team After Two Cofounders Resign in 48 Hours
Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu resigned from xAI within 48 hours. Six of twelve cofounders are now gone as staff complain about unrealistic demands and MacroHard underperforms.
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Raises Record $60M for New Startup Entire
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with a record $60M seed round to build developer tools for managing AI coding agents. Includes exclusive interview.
AI News
xAI Cofounder Tony Wu Resigns Days After $1.25 Trillion SpaceX Merger
Tony Wu resigned from xAI on Monday, becoming at least the fifth cofounder to leave Musk's AI startup. His exit comes days after SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal.
Alibaba's Qwen Crashes After 10 Million Orders in China's AI Red Envelope War
Alibaba's Qwen chatbot crashed after 10 million orders overwhelmed servers on the first day of a $433 million Lunar New Year giveaway, as Chinese AI companies burn over $700 million on red envelopes to win users.
OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT Hours After Anthropic's Super Bowl Jab
OpenAI began testing ads in free-tier ChatGPT less than 24 hours after Anthropic aired Super Bowl parody spots mocking the move. Both companies released frontier coding models the same week.
The AI Industry Has a $98 Billion Problem. It Lives in Zoning.
Local opposition halted $98 billion in U.S. data center projects in Q2 2025. With 50+ groups active in 17 states, zoning is now AI's binding constraint.
Analysis
Alphabet Borrows Like a Country. That's the Point.
Alphabet is selling a 100-year bond in sterling, joining Oxford, the Wellcome Trust, and EDF. A 28-year-old company now borrows like a sovereign.
The Hive Mind Is Real. Yegge's Own Theory Says It Won't Last.
Steve Yegge's Golden Age framework, validated by Google and Amazon history, starts a clock on the very company he celebrates. Anthropic at 4,000 employees is crossing every threshold.
Apple Didn't Partner With Google. It Surrendered to It.
Apple tried to build its own AI. It failed. Now it's paying Google $1 billion a year to license Gemini while pretending the arrangement is strategic. The company that controlled every layer of the stack is now renting the most important one.
Meta Just Admitted Its AI Problem Isn't Technical
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Politics
Anthropic Spent Millions on Ads to Tell You It Hates Ads
Anthropic paid $8M+ for Super Bowl ads mocking ChatGPT's ad model. Sam Altman's 400-word rant shows exactly which nerve it hit.
Pactum CEO Warns Agents on Moltbook Have "Crossed the Rubicon," Calls for Immediate Guardrails
Pactum CEO Kaspar Korjus, whose AI agents negotiate for Walmart and Rolls-Royce, warns Moltbook has created autonomous agents that can't be shut down.
France Raids X Offices as Europe Opens Four Probes Against Musk Platforms
France raided X's Paris offices with Europol on Tuesday and summoned Musk for questioning. Hours later, the UK and EU opened separate probes into Grok deepfakes.
Silicon Valley's Selective Silence
Tim Cook and Andy Jassy attended a Melania doc screening while Alex Pretti was shot. 500+ tech workers demand action. Most CEOs stay silent.
Vibe Coding
The Accidental Architect: How Boris Cherny Built Silicon Valley's Most Talked-About Coding Tool
Meet Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic. His viral workflow runs 10 AI agents in parallel. He hasn't written code by hand in months.
Clawdbot: How to Build Your Own AI Assistant for Five Dollars a Month
Step-by-step tutorial to set up Clawdbot on a $5 VPS or old hardware. Copy-paste commands, WhatsApp integration, and security best practices.
The lobster that never sleeps: Inside Clawdbot's vision for personal AI
Open-source Clawdbot turns a Mac Mini into a 24/7 AI employee for $2,400/year. What this means for workers in digital roles.
10 AI Tools That Actually Ship: The Standouts from Late 2025
While OpenAI and Anthropic chase AGI, a wave of specialized AI tools hit the market solving problems the big labs ignored. Ten standouts from late 2025 reveal where the real value is being built: integrations, workflows, and trust.
Funding
Runway Raises $315 Million to Build AI World Models at $5.3 Billion Valuation
Runway closed a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation and plans to pivot from AI video generation to building world models that simulate physical reality.
The $200 million middleman between humans and machines
Micro1 surged from $4M to $200M revenue in 14 months supplying human experts to AI labs. Founder Ali Ansari, 25, now targets a $2.5B valuation.
When Light Becomes the Processor
A Duke University spinout claims its photonic chip can deliver 100x the performance of Nvidia's best GPU. $118 million in backing from Bill Gates and Microsoft says the physics works. But fabrication reality and a moving Nvidia target stand between Neurophos and its first paying customer.
Why Europe's $17.5 Billion AI Bet Still Trails America by 9x
Europe raised $58B in venture funding in 2025, with AI leading for the first time. But US AI startups raised 9x more. Analysis of the widening gap.
AI Research
Anthropic Study Finds 1 in 1,000 Claude Conversations Risk Distorting Users' Grip on Reality
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic Finds the Off-Switch for AI Personality Drift
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
The Quarantine Strategy: To make an AI remember the past, you have to protect it from the future
A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
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