The Information now puts Thinking Machines' raise at $5bn to $6bn on a pre-money of at least $40bn, with Nvidia supplying roughly half - the chip vendor bankrolling a lab that will spend the money on its chips.

Build American AI, funded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and reportedly bankrolled by a $100m super PAC, is spending millions in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas to call the opposition a psy-op - as that opposition climbs from 42% to 75% in a year.

Kenya adopted a ten-year plan to move graduates into online outsourcing the same year ChatGPT launched; the Nairobi essay trade that paid at least 40,000 people has shrunk to almost nothing, and the work left is editing AI text to pass as human.