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🗞️In this edition
Google Paid $2.7B to Get Him Back. He Just Left for OpenAI.
The Anthropic Shutdown Is a Warning Nobody Should Ignore
An AI Godfather Just Called xAI a Failure to Musk's Face
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The Chinese AI Nobody Was Watching Just Beat GPT-5.5 for a Sixth of the Cost
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The man who helped invent modern AI just switched sides. The company having the best year in AI got humbled in a single evening. And one of the field's founding fathers just torched an entire empire on live television.
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He co-wrote the paper that made modern AI possible.
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Anthropic was having the best year in AI right up until 5:21pm last Friday.
Every xAI founder but Musk is gone.
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The Chinese AI Nobody Was Watching Just Beat GPT-5.5 for a Sixth of the Cost – Days after the US cut off access to Claude, a Chinese lab open-sourced a model that beats GPT-5.5 for a fraction of the cost. The timing was no accident.
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Google paid billions to keep him and lost him anyway. Anthropic's best year collapsed into its hardest weekend in the time it takes to send one email. And the people who built this industry are now the ones questioning whether it holds together.
The AI era isn't slowing down. It's starting to crack.
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