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Open source AI is winning token volume, but Anthropic still owns the spend
DeepSeek now handles a third of tokens on Vercel's gateway, yet Anthropic still captures more than half of AI spend on the platform.
How modern AI is pushing robots from single tasks to general-purpose work
Boston Dynamics and Physical Intelligence say reinforcement learning and foundation models have redrawn what robot autonomy means in 2026.
Elastic CIO says data, governance and humans decide which AI projects survive
Gartner expects 60% of AI projects to be abandoned through 2026 without AI-ready data; Elastic argues four foundations decide the rest.
AI-generated Haaland clips rack up 31M views as fans rewrite celebrity
A deepfake of Norway's striker traced to a Chinese comedian kept spreading anyway — sports fandom now runs on synthetic canon.
Fanfic readers build a Claude detector for AO3, and the misfires begin
An anonymous X account released a site skin that flags Claude-generated fanworks on Archive of Our Own. It works — until authors learn to route around it.
AI backlash hardens: 71% oppose local data centers, $130B in projects blocked
Public opposition, junior-worker displacement, and memory-chip inflation are converging into an economic and political headwind the industry hasn't priced in.
Reltio warns agriculture AI will fail without clean data foundations
Predictive models can lift yields 26% and cut water 41%, but only if the underlying farm data is structured, governed, and current.
Calling AI agents 'coworkers' makes humans 18% worse at catching their errors
A Boston University study of 1,261 managers finds the 'digital employee' framing inverts accountability and erodes oversight.
Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.
Margaret Atwood tried Claude once, called AI 'garbage in, garbage out'
The Handmaid's Tale author asked Anthropic's chatbot about a Father Brown episode and got a confidently wrong answer.
Cory Doctorow warns the $1.4 trillion AI bubble dwarfs every prior tech mania
The author's new book argues seven AI firms now hold a third of the stock market while passing around the same $100 billion IOU.
Anthropic's Boris Cherny pushes 'loops' as the next step beyond agents
The Claude Code creator says swarms of agents prompting agents are as big a leap as the move from hand-written code to agentic AI.
AI out-persuades expert human debaters in Oxford and AISI study
Across 18,978 conversations, frontier models beat elite debaters and raised 3x more donations than professional canvassers for Save the Children.
Match survey: 47% of U.S. singles view AI in dating negatively
Match Group polled 1,000 singles aged 18–39 and found resistance to AI companions but openness to profile and chat assists.
Pew: 63% of Americans say AI is advancing too quickly
Chatbot usage jumped from 33% to 49% in two years, but only 16% think AI will help society.
Only 16% of Americans see AI as a net positive, Pew finds
Pew's new survey shows 40% expect a negative societal impact, yet 44% of U.S. adults now use ChatGPT — more than double 2023.
60% of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
A WordPress VIP survey of 2,000 finds consumers distrust unattributed AI answers more than airline fees, even as AI referral traffic climbs.
South Korea leads the world on AI optimism as government bets on chips and chatbots
Only 16% of South Koreans are more worried than excited about AI — the lowest of 25 countries Pew surveyed, versus 50% in the US.
Tribeca 2026 shows AI filmmaking needs custom models, not vanilla prompts
Google DeepMind and OpenAI brought AI shorts to Tribeca. The standout used custom Veo and Imagen builds trained on hand-painted Pixar concept art.
Microsoft's Suleyman calls Anthropic's Claude consciousness talk 'really, really dangerous'
The Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic's constitution treats Claude's potential sentience as fact, training the model to act conscious.
Apple bets its AI comeback on a privacy pitch as it leans on Google and Nvidia
Private Cloud Compute now runs on Google Cloud with Nvidia GPUs and Google Titan chips, complicating Apple's hardened supply-chain story.
Apple's $14B AI bet looks restrained next to rivals' $900B
Siri AI ships later this year with Gemini integration as Apple spends a fraction of what OpenAI, Meta, and Google are committing.
Momfluencers pitch ChatGPT as a 'coparent' as AI gender gap widens
A new wave of creators is selling $37 custom GPTs to overwhelmed mothers, framing AI as the household partner husbands aren't.
Virtual influencer market on track to hit $60B by 2030 as AI avatars flood feeds
AI-generated creators are getting indistinguishable from real influencers, and platforms have no clear policy for accounts that aren't quite people.
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