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OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.
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OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.

Broadcom's Q1 2026 earnings show AI chip revenue up 106% year-over-year, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta driving demand toward a $100 billion custom silicon forecast for 2027.

A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.

The Trump administration's 90-day AI executive order deadline hits this week. Commerce, FTC, and $42B in broadband funding are all on the line.

A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.

A new open-source toolkit called OBLITERATUS can surgically remove refusal mechanisms from 116 open-weight LLMs using abliteration - no fine-tuning, no training data, just geometry.

OpenAI's Codex desktop app hits the Microsoft Store with native Windows sandboxing, PowerShell agents, WinUI skills, and multi-agent parallel execution - no WSL required.

Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.

Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.

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.

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.