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Genspark's $250M ARR; Google's 15x cheaper AI; Abridge saves 20 hrs
Genspark hits $250M ARR with AI-written code; Google offers 15x cheaper AI; Abridge saves doctors 20 hours weekly.
The 6-week double: Anthropic’s growth and the GPT-5 physics proofs.
Anthropic's revenue reportedly doubles every six weeks, while Google shutters Projects due to high compute costs. This split signal highlights the new battleground for AI value.
Mediocre is easier than ever. CoreWeave’s RL pivot and the $50B silicon bet.
Generative AI makes "pretty good" ubiquitous, forcing re-evaluation of what stands out. Human
Anthropic Passes OpenAI Revenue. Safety Cuts Capabilities.
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in annualized revenue run rate, hitting $30 billion as new research reveals AI safety training weakens model capabilities. This and more on the dual-lane AI economy.
AI Was Supposed to Accelerate Diligence. It's Killing Deals.
Despite enterprise AI driving significant productivity gains and augmenting platforms like ServiceNow, public backlash escalates into hostility, fueled by economic anxieties and industry rhetoric.
The Ghost in the Codebase: OpenAI’s 1M LOC and Meta's Closed Pivot
OpenAI’s Frontier team just built a 1M+ line codebase with zero human code. While Anthropic’s Mythos model finds 27-year-old flaws, human attention is the new b
The Ghost in the Codebase: OpenAI’s 1M Lines of Code and Meta's Surprising Closed Pivot
AI agents are writing entire codebases, but the unseen bottleneck isn't models or tokens—it's the foundational tools struggling to keep up. This means a re-evaluation of how software is built and maintained.
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