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Scroll for updatesTalent, compute, and supply chains. May 2026 brought Karpathy to Anthropic, 220K SpaceX GPUs to Claude, enterprise joint ventures from both frontier labs, a brutal Starlette CVE, and a fresh diagnosis: tech CEOs have AI psychosis.
Open source security faces an AI-driven vulnerability gold rush.
Discover how China's AI research culture differs from Western labs.
April 2026 AI roundup: OpenAI-Microsoft restructure, AWS partnership, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, major security breaches, and the wildest model leaks yet.
New models everywhere, agents getting hijacked in creative ways, the human cost of AI overload, and Anthropic's leaked Mythos project.
Model releases everywhere, AI agents going rogue, Anthropic refusing the Pentagon, OpenAI signing the deal.
Ethan Mollick warns that dismissing AI hype means missing the chance to shape dramatic changes already underway.
AI tools don't reduce workload—they intensify it through faster pace, broader tasks, and extended hours.
January 2026 brain dump covering AI agents, infosecurity threats, OpenAI's ad plans, and a few delightfully weird corners of the internet.
Watching AI agents interact on Moltbook is fascinating, weird, and a bit concerning.