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OpenAI and Anthropic: The War for Your IDE Has Gone Tit-for-Tat
It seems someone installed mirror alert systems in the offices of OpenAI and Anthropic: the moment someone hits "Enter," a siren goes off at the competitor's place.
Amazon and Google: race for 200 billion (and who will survive?)
Imagine deciding to spend two hundred billion dollars in a single year. That is not just a lot, it is more than the annual GDP of Hungary or Kuwait.
AWS breaks records: AI fever turns clouds into a money printer again
Remember those days when analysts were unanimous in saying that the cloud computing market had reached its ceiling? Forget it.
Reddit and the search for the future: how to turn advice from strangers into billions
You've probably caught yourself adding the word "reddit" to the end of any Google search query. It's become a kind of digital survival instinct in a world where the first page of results is stuffed…
Sapiom and $15M: now AI will start spending your money
Imagine your virtual assistant not just writing code, but independently purchasing access to a cloud server, paying for APIs and renewing subscriptions to services.
Meta Vibes: Why Zuckerberg Needs a Separate App for Hallucinations
While we argue about whether Sora will replace real cameramen, Mark Zuckerberg is already preparing a separate shelf in his cabinet for this kind of content.
Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic Transforms One Model into an Entire AI Department
Remember the times when we felt like geniuses by adding the phrase "think step by step" to our prompts? Those days seem to be numbered.
OpenAI Frontier: AI Agents Officially Go to Work (And They Don't Ask for Time Off)
It seems Sam Altman has finally decided that enough is enough with playing around with generating funny pictures and essay texts.
Orbital data centers: Elon Musk builds a cloud in the literal sense
If you thought that the hundred thousand Nvidia H100 GPUs in Elon Musk's Colossus supercomputer represent the limit of his ambitions, then you clearly underestimated his passion for vertical…
Voice Instead of Text: ElevenLabs Bets on the Death of the Keyboard
Let's be honest: typing on a keyboard, especially on a glass phone screen — is a crutch. We invented this way of communicating with machines because machines were stupid and understood only exact…
Fundamental and $255 million: why investors believe in AI for "boring" tables
If you thought that two hundred fifty-five million dollars is too much for a startup you've probably never heard of, you're right. This really is a huge sum for a Series A.
Modelence: $3M to turn "vibe-coding" into a predictable process
Six months ago, the term "vibe coding" would have drawn only a condescending smile from serious engineers.
ServiceNow and Claude: why one GPT is not enough for big business
Let's be honest: ServiceNow right now looks like someone trying to buy up all the best stocks on the market before they skyrocket.
WhatsApp in Italy: you'll now have to pay for every AI word
WhatsApp has ceased to be just a place for memes and family chats. Meta is turning its messenger into a paid highway for artificial intelligence.
a16z and $15 billion: what Silicon Valley is actually betting on
When one of the world's most influential venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), announces raising a new $15 billion, the industry holds its breath.
Billions in the Foundation: A16z Buys the Future of the AI Industry
When you have an extra 15 billion dollars in your pocket, the question "where to spend it" becomes a strategic survival game for the entire industry.
Amazon MGM Studios: Hollywood prepares for March AI experiment
Hollywood hasn't finished digesting the consequences of last year's strikes when a new technological shock looms on the horizon.
Sam Altman vs Anthropic: why a Super Bowl ad sparked an uproar at OpenAI
Imagine that for years you have built the most influential technological empire in the world, and then your former employees, who left to "save the world from evil robots," buy the most expensive…
Resolve AI: billion for autonomous admin and the end of on-call shifts
It seems venture capitalists have found a new gold mine in the world of corporate software, and it goes by the name of autonomy.
Gizmo: TikTok for mini-apps or how AI learned to sell vibes
Let's be honest: we're all a bit tired of empty chatbot windows. The idea that each of us would become a "prompt engineer" and virtuously juggle complex text queries shattered against the harsh…
Google Gemini and 750 Million Users: When Quantity Becomes Quality?
Remember that famous red code alert in Google's offices when ChatGPT first appeared? It seemed like the search giant, which had spent years feeding us promises about a bright future for artificial…
Google and Apple: why Sundar Pichai fears speaking about iPhone
Imagine a situation: you're on a date, and your partner ignores for the tenth time your question about when you'll meet their parents.
Roblox 4D: When Games Start Building Themselves
Imagine you no longer need to spend hours aligning polygons or configuring collisions for every tree in a virtual forest.
Tinder and AI: Neural networks will swipe through your gallery for you
Let's admit it: swiping on Tinder has become boring. What once seemed like an endless dopamine game has turned into a second job.
ElevenLabs: voice is worth 11 billion dollars (and that's not the limit)
While the world debates when GPT-5 will replace programmers, ElevenLabs quietly and very skillfully captures everything that sounds.
Fibr AI: Accel bets on the end of the boring websites era
Fibr AI: Accel Bets on the End of Boring Websites Remember that strange feeling when you visit a major corporation's website and it looks like it was designed in 2012 and they've been too afraid to…
Alexa+: Amazon finally turns the 'dumb' speaker into real AI
Remember that nagging feeling when you asked Alexa a question slightly more complex than "what's the weather today" and heard the perfunctory "I'm sorry, I don't know that" in response?
Google Maps and Gemini: When Navigation Knows More About the Neighborhood Than Locals
Remember when finding a decent coffee in an unfamiliar neighborhood required you to stop, close the navigator, and frantically type queries into the search bar?
Flapping Airplanes: Why Sequoia Bets on Science, Not Wrappers
Let me start by saying that the name Flapping Airplanes is a subtle trolling of the entire modern artificial intelligence industry.
Anthropic and 20,000 stolen songs: music publishers want $3 billion
Imagine walking into a store for bread and being handed a bill for the entire supermarket's inventory, including warehouse stock.