The Brief: The Last Company Standing?
Google and Anthropic watermark, Nvidia mobilizes $500B for even more compute, SpaceXAI ships Grokbot
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Airtable, ZIRP and the New Math of AI Exits
What Airtable’s sale tells us about the accelerating clock of software.
The Brief
DeepSeek raises prices, Anthropic confirms in-house silicon team, and Google loses its AI stars.
What DeepSeek Isn't Doing
Notes from DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng's leaked investor call.
The Brief: The Heat of AI Summer 2026
The hottest week of AI summer 2026: a $1.3 trillion chip drawdown, frontier models hacking real companies, and three Chinese labs shipping major models in 24 hours
The Brief: Frontier Chips & Training Data
Multiple AI labs including Meta and DeepSeek are reportedly building their own chips. Plus: Cursor trained a frontier model on users' data
The Brief: Better Models or Better Systems?
This week: the bid for custom models from Thinking Machines and Palantir, OpenAI floats a 5% stake for the US govt, and Unitree takes humanoids public.
The Brief: Mythos Redeployed
Come join us at Strange sessions #5: loop engineering! Plus: OpenAI ships its own inference chip, memory shortage raises Apple's prices, and more
The Brief: Power Moves & /Goal
Two Transformer authors join the giants, Mythos turns up inside the NSA, and open weights reach the frontier.
Go Full Stack or Die
What xAI's $60B Cursor Bet Really Means