Washington Gates Its Best AI. China Just Gave Its Own Away.
OpenAI agreed to release GPT-5.6 only to government-approved customers, one at a time, two weeks after Anthropic's top models were pulled offline. But the day after that order, China's Z.ai gave GLM 5.2, a near-frontier model, away for free. Delay the US frontier and you don't slow it, you hand it to China.
Read full story →The Spend-At-All-Costs Era of AI Is Quietly Ending
One startup halved its AI bill overnight by switching off Claude and onto a cheaper Chinese model. Uber burned a year's AI budget in four months and started rationing. As OpenAI and Anthropic race toward trillion-dollar IPOs, their best customers are learning to spend less.
Read full story →Nvidia Says It Solved AI's Water Problem. It Solved the Easy 7 Percent.
Nvidia unveiled a data-center design that uses almost no water and declared the thirst problem fixed. But cooling is only 7 percent of the total. The other 211 billion gallons a year evaporate at the power plants that feed the machines, where a sealed cooling loop never reaches.
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