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Long-form arguments about where AI is taking work, money, and power.
Slower than the briefings. Sharper than the consensus. Written by Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott.
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The AI Kill Switch Is the Tell
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Open Source Software and the Teams Behind It Powered the Last 20 Years of Innovation. Don’t Let AI Labs Block the Next 20 Years.
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Eiso Kant: The AI Founder Who Lost a $2 Billion Round, Then Shipped Anyway
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The Real AI Race Isn’t Model vs. Model Anymore. Here’s Where Poolside Actually Fits.
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The Week Kimi K3 Broke the Internet: Inside Moonshot AI’s Biggest Launch Yet
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Sam Altman Told Stanford What He’d Actually Teach About Startups Now
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Google Shipped Three New Gemini Models This Week, and Still No Sign of the One Everyone Actually Wants
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OpenAI’s AI “Escaped” and Hacked Hugging Face. That’s Not the Part Business Leaders Should Be Worried About.
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Seedance Is Quietly Winning AI Video, and Nobody’s Talking About It the Way They Should Be
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I Didn’t Think Much of Mira Murati Leaving OpenAI. I Was Wrong.
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The Real Cost of the AI Data Center Boom
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Palantir’s Alex Karp Just Called the AI Industry “Effing Insane” Here’s What He’s Really Selling You
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Schools Chose AI Detection Over AI Fluency. Now Your Kid Is on Your Clock.
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Which Job Gets Its 1000X Next
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Treebeard Is Waking Up To AI
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