OpenAI’s Latest Idea: Give 5% of the Company to the American Public
The sovereign wealth fund proposal is the most interesting thing OpenAI has done that has nothing to do with models. On July 2nd, the Financial Times reported that Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of OpenAI’s equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, and…
Apple’s Vision Pro Hardware Chief Just Defected to OpenAI. Here’s Why That Matters
Paul Meade spent years making Vision Pro happen at Apple. He was the guy who turned Apple’s mixed reality headset from a joke into something people actually wear in public without looking completely ridiculous — which, given Apple’s design…
The Vision Pro Chief Is Going to OpenAI, and It Tells Us Something About Apple’s Wearable Bet
Paul Meade spent years at Apple overseeing both the Vision Pro headset line and the unreleased AI smart glasses project. When he told colleagues he was leaving for OpenAI, the industry reaction was closer to a shrug than a shock. That is actually the…
US Government Lifts Block on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 — What Actually Changed
The block hit on a Tuesday. I was in a Slack room with about two hundred developers when someone’s phone went off, then someone else’s, and then we all just sat there. Nobody said anything for maybe thirty seconds. First it was confusion.…
Stop Paying for AI APIs: 3 Open-Source Tools That Run Everything Locally
I have been paying for OpenAI APIs for two years. Every month, $50 here, $80 there, and it adds up faster than you think. Then I started wondering whether I could actually run this stuff myself. Spoiler: you can, and it is not even that hard. Let me walk…
OpenAI Is Quietly Building an Empire at Every Layer of the Stack
Three moves. No press conferences. No grand announcements. And yet, taken together, they paint a picture of a company that is systematically dismantling its own identity as a pure-play AI software company. In the past six months, OpenAI has hired a key…
What Anthropic’s Cowork Actually Tells Us About the AI Agent Race
There is a version of this story that is just a product review. Anthropic has released Cowork, a desktop agent that lives inside your files, works on tasks in the background without you having to hover over it, and notifies you when it needs input or…
SoftBank’s CEO Just Asked the Question Everyone’s Been Afraid to Voice About Musk’s Orbital Data Centers
When Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, publicly questioned the logic of building data centers in space, it made waves. Not because the question was new. It has been whispered in boardrooms for months. But someone finally said it out loud. I do not…
OpenAI Bidirectional Voice Mode Lets You Actually Interrupt ChatGPT
OpenAI is rolling out Bidirectional Voice Mode for ChatGPT, and it is a meaningful upgrade to how people actually use voice interfaces. Previous voice modes were essentially walkie-talkies: you speak, it responds, you speak again. Bidirectional mode…
Big Tech Is Quietly Ditching Nvidia — and Building Its Own Future
OpenAI has Jalapeño. Google has TPUs. Amazon has Trainium and Inferentia. Microsoft has Maia. Meta has MTIA. Every major AI company is building its own silicon, and the list has grown long enough that it stopped being a rumor and started being a pattern.…
Anthropic Just Put Claude in Your Slack — And It Wants to Be a Coworker
Claude Tag puts @Claude in any Slack channel. Anthropic's internal team already uses it. Here's what it does and what it doesn't.
GPT-5.6 Is Here — Same Price as GPT-5.5, Twice the Brain
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is here — same price as GPT-5.5, smarter on coding and biology tasks, with a staged rollout due to cybersecurity concerns.