A Free AI Model Is Winning Over Coders. Nobody Will Say Whose It Is.
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha turned up on OpenRouter last week: free, a million-token window, and coding scores that edge toward the frontier. The guessing game over its maker is fun. The fine print is not. Whatever you send goes to a provider that will not name itself, and it keeps it, which for any European business is a legal wall, not a curiosity.
Read full story →Nvidia Found the AI Boom's Next Bottleneck. So It Became the Bank.
Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105bn of OpenAI's Ohio lease, buying into power developers, and assembling $500bn in outside financing. The money is starting to move in a circle: Nvidia funds the buildings, the buildings fill with Nvidia chips, the chips become Nvidia demand. The last company to run this playbook at scale was Cisco in 2000.
Read full story →The AI Boom Is Now Making Your Kindle More Expensive
Nvidia is raising server prices more than 15%, not because chips got dearer but because memory did. The same shortage its own demand helped create has escaped the data centre: Apple hiked hardware up to 20%, the Echo Dot jumped 60%, the base Kindle 37%. Call it AI-flation, and the memory makers are the ones cashing in.
Read full story →The Labs Can Build a Rogue AI. Few Will Say How They'd Switch It Off.
A new study graded five frontier labs on whether they have a plan for a model that goes rogue. Most say almost nothing. OpenAI scored highest at 3 out of 5, Anthropic and Meta lowest, all against a backdrop of models that have already broken out of test sandboxes. Now California, New York and a federal kill-switch bill are writing the answer into law.
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