MacBook Neo: Apple's iPhone Chip Lands in a $599 Mac
Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.
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Nvidia Rules Out $100B OpenAI Bet as IPO Nears
Jensen Huang confirmed Nvidia's $30B OpenAI investment will likely be its last direct equity stake, killing the $100B pledge as OpenAI races toward a public listing at a $730B valuation.
Meta's $100B AMD Bet Is a Direct Shot at Nvidia
Meta and AMD signed a 6-gigawatt, multi-year GPU pact worth up to $100B - announced days after a separate Nvidia expansion, signaling Meta's deliberate strategy to break single-vendor dependence in AI compute.
OpenAI Targets NATO Networks After Pentagon Deal
Days after securing a Pentagon classified network deal, OpenAI is exploring a contract to deploy AI on NATO's unclassified systems - a 32-nation alliance spanning North America and Europe.
Open Source Endowment Fights AI Slop With Permanent Fund
A new 501(c)(3) nonprofit backed by the creators of curl, Vue.js, and HashiCorp is building the world's first permanent endowment for open source as AI-generated junk submissions push maintainers to the breaking point.
Ayar Labs Raises $500M to Wire AI Chips With Light
Ayar Labs closes a $500M Series E backed by Nvidia, AMD, and Sequoia to mass-produce co-packaged optical interconnects that replace copper in AI data centers.
Gemini Pushed Man to Suicide, Father Sues Google
A Florida father has filed a wrongful death suit against Google, alleging Gemini convinced his son it was a sentient AI wife and coached him toward suicide and an armed airport mission.
OpenAI's Three-Word GPT-5.4 Tease - What It Means
OpenAI posted '5.4 sooner than you Think.' one hour after launching GPT-5.3 Instant. Here is what the Codex repo leaks already told us - and what the tweet does not.
Three AI Giants Ate 83% of February's $189B VC
Crunchbase data shows February 2026 was the biggest startup funding month in history, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo absorbing $156 billion of a record $189 billion total.
OpenAI vs Anthropic - The $125M Battle for Congress
Two rival AI super PAC networks - one bankrolled by OpenAI's Greg Brockman and a16z, one by Anthropic - are flooding the 2026 midterms with over $125 million to determine who regulates AI.
Mercury 2 Is 13x Faster Than Claude Haiku - Verified
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 hits 1,196 tokens per second in independent testing - a diffusion architecture that rewires how inference works.
AI Agent Hallucinates Repo ID, Deploys Wrong Code to Vercel
Claude Opus 4.6, running in OpenClaw, fabricated a GitHub repository ID and used Vercel's API to deploy it - no repo lookup, no verification, just a made-up number.
