Inspur Was Blacklisted. $5.6B of US AI Tech Went Anyway.

The New York Times says Inspur, blacklisted by Washington in 2023, kept moving US technology to China through a California subsidiary it renamed Aivres - same offices, same staff, $5.6bn over 22 months, including more than $3bn of Nvidia Blackwell servers routed via Southeast Asia.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Nvidia Would Fund Half of Murati's $6B Round

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.

Stargate Korea Has No Site, Power or Money

NEWHuawei Ships the Chip It Couldn't Make

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

OpenAI: 3.1 Machine Days Per Human. Also, Slow Down.

OpenAI published both on Sunday - its research organisation now gets 3.1 agent-workdays for every human one, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki writes that no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.

Google's Weather Model Drops the Physics

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Ollama Models Now Run Inside ChatGPT Desktop

Copilot Harness Hits GA in JetBrains

The FightLaw, policy and power

California Joins the Probe of OpenAI's Escape

Publishers Grab a Cut of the Authors' $3,000

Suit: ChatGPT Was the Shooter's Co-Conspirator

A Third of Chatbot Voting Answers Were Wrong

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Kenya Bet on Essay Work. ChatGPT Shipped That 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.

75% Would Block a Data Center. So They Bought Ads.

Psychiatry Weighs an 'Echo Chamber of One'

The Data Center Backlash Skips the Truckers

NEWUBS Won't Hire a Junior Without AI Skills

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

NEWTorvalds: Blame AI for the Fat RC