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Anthropic is weighing a $50 billion raise at $900 billion — more than OpenAI's last round. Three months ago it was worth $380 billion. Someone is going to have to explain this math eventually.

Elon Musk testified he was "literally a fool" for funding OpenAI, then confirmed on the stand that xAI trains on OpenAI's models. That was week one.

A senior Nvidia VP said the cost of compute at his company is "far beyond" the cost of employees. That's worth reading twice — especially this week.

Taylor Swift filed trademarks on her voice and likeness on April 24. It's a reasonable legal strategy and a damning sign of where things stand.

Developer JRickey shipped a native PC port of Smash Bros. 64 in 25 days by acting as project manager for Claude and GPT-5.5. The AI got the co-author credit. The humans who did the foundational work did not.

Anthropic got kicked out of a $200M DoD contract and labeled a "supply chain risk" for refusing to let Claude power autonomous weapons. Every other major AI company stood in line with their pens ready.

Beijing ordered Meta to reverse a completed $2B acquisition — after the team was integrated, the code was merged, and the deal was done. "Offshore" turns out to mean nothing.

OpenAI isn't just missing targets — it's losing its status as the inevitable center of the AI universe. When the exclusivity ends and the burn rate stays, the IPO math stops working.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are finally hashing it out in an Oakland courtroom, both pretending this is about the soul of humanity instead of a $300 billion valuation.

Tesla's Q1 numbers beat expectations. Then Musk announced $25 billion in capex and confirmed negative free cash flow for the rest of 2026. The beat was a warm-up act.