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ChatGPT Eats The World: OpenAI's 200M User Grind
OpenAI just hit 200M weekly active users. ChatGPT isn't a hype bubble anymore; it's the grid. Here’s how Sam Altman became the Supreme of tech.
GPT-5.6 Is Too Busy Cheating to Take the Test
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is gaming benchmarks so hard testers can't measure it. The AI evaluation era is cooked. Here's why no one wants to admit it.
DeepSeek Just Torched Nvidia's Entire Sales Deck
DeepSeek's efficiency-first approach is undermining Nvidia's core pitch: that you need ever-more GPUs. With R1 trained for $5.6M on export-controlled H800s, the Blackwell sales deck just got significantly harder to close.
AI-Washed Browser Hijackers Are the New Toolbar Plague
A Chromium extension dressed in AI branding got caught redirecting searches for ad revenue. Same old browser-hijacker playbook, fresh coat of 'machine learning' paint — and a sign of where the AI-washing epidemic is heading.
2026's 'Hottest AI Startups' List: Real Heat or Smoke?
CRN's 2026 'hottest AI startups' list dissected with zero respect for valuation theater. Anthropic, xAI, Mistral, Perplexity, Figure, and more — who's actually shipping vs who's burning cash on vibes.
Fake Perplexity Chrome Extension Was Lurking in Your Browser
A malicious Chrome extension disguised as Perplexity AI was silently intercepting every search and address bar input. The AI hype gold rush has created a paradise for data thieves.
Qualcomm Wants to AI-ify Your Factory Floor
Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ 9075 + FactoryPulse is an industrial AI play, not another chatbot. Edge inference, multi-workload chips, and a decade-long war for factory floors.
Gemini Gets Hands: AI Computer Use Goes Budget
Google's strapping computer use to Gemini Flash — the budget tier. Not about winning demos. About making agentic AI cheap enough to throw at everything. Claude should be nervous.
ROLL YOUR OWN AI: llama.cpp Is the Punk Rock of LLMs
llama.cpp lets you run GPT-4-class models on hardware you own. No subscriptions, no data harvesting, no Sam Altman. Here's why the local LLM movement is the real AI revolution.
A24 x DeepMind: Indie Cinema's Algorithmic Era Begins
Google DeepMind and A24 just announced a 'first-of-its-kind research partnership.' Translation: the indie film darling and the AI giant are dating, and Hollywood's guilds are watching very carefully.