Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News 280 megawatts. About 6% of NZ's entire grid. $24 of GDP per MWh compared to Tiwai's $105. A gentailer that generates, retails, and owns a chunk of the consumer. Three questions need answers before the final investment decision.
📰 News HSBC will hire over 100 AI specialists in Singapore and open a global AI center in the city-state later this year. The British bank is betting that Asia's talent pool and regulatory environment make it the right base for AI-driven finance.
📰 News Nvidia committed $5 billion to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc., granting access to next-generation Vera Rubin systems. The deal signals Nvidia wants to own the compute layer of every frontier lab, not just sell chips.
📰 News One in five people get health information from social media. AI deepfake doctors are filling the gap with miracle cures that do not exist.
📰 News Anthropic's Project Panama shredded millions of books. ISBNdb now brokers orders of up to a million books with NDAs. A judge said destroying the original is 'transformative.' But what happens when three AI companies each buy one of three surviving copies of a rare work?
📰 News Chile supplies a third of the world's copper. A deadly storm just showed how thin the margin is between the metal AI needs and the weather that increasingly threatens it.
📰 News ChangXin Memory Technologies leaped past every other mainland-listed company on its first day of trading, a market verdict on China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency.
📰 News An AI-native operating system that runs on a laptop, a robot, or a cluster — and federates with peers without a broker. HART OS is either the future of distributed AI or an ambitious alpha.
📰 News Nvidia's $250 billion guarantee talks for OpenAI's Ohio data centre reveal a new phase of the AI buildout: the chipmaker is now the lender.
📰 News AI adoption is expanding, models are improving, and yet productivity gains remain modest and unemployment for exposed jobs hasn't risen. The apocalypse is late.
📰 News Anthropic removed 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude 5 models with no measurable loss on coding evaluations. The lesson: stop overconstraining capable models.
📰 News DeepSeek told backers the second funding round is suspended. The trigger wasn't valuation or market conditions — it was a leak of the founder's own words.