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Strava Charges $11.99 Monthly Fee To Stop Zero-Code AI Scrapers

Strava closes anonymous access and introduces a flat developer subscription to manage a 448 percent surge in automated requests ahead of its IPO filing.

Jun 1, 20263 min read
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AI Savings Misses Should Alarm Executives, Bain Warns

Only 31% of CFOs report satisfaction with AI deployments, yet 83% plan to raise enterprise spending by over 15%. The growing gap between capital allocation and realized returns demands immediate executive attention.

Jun 1, 20263 min read
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SoftBank Pledges €75 Billion for Five Gigawatts of French AI Infrastructure

SoftBank Group is deploying €75 billion to build five gigawatts of AI data centers in France, locking in a major European infrastructure play tied to sovereign compute goals.

May 31, 20263 min read
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AI Is Turning Summer Internships Into Hyper-Competitive Gauntlets

Traditional entry-level pipelines are fracturing as generative automation collapses routine tasks. Students must now prove AI-fluency and high-judgment just to secure a placement.

May 29, 20263 min read
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Corporate Performance Reviews Now Track AI Usage Targets

Major firms embed AI usage targets directly into annual reviews and promotion criteria, shifting algorithmic fluency from optional training to contractual requirement.

May 27, 20262 min read
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Intuit Cuts 17% of Staff to Strip Complexity and Scale AI

Intuit is eliminating 17 percent of its global workforce to prune management layers, consolidate acquisitions, and redirect capital toward an AI-native financial platform.

May 26, 20263 min read
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Frontier Labs Are Betting on a Market That Doesn't Exist Yet

The biggest AI labs spend like utilities and price like startups. Every funding round is a wager that today's losses are buying a market that hasn't formed.

May 25, 20263 min read
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In the AI Boom, the Margin Lives in the Middle

The companies selling compute and chips into the AI race capture the steadiest profit. In a gold rush, the reliable money is in picks and shovels.

May 25, 20262 min read
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Building on Someone Else's Model Is a Rented Moat

The app layer is where AI meets users — and where defensibility is hardest. When your core capability is an API call, your moat is rented.

May 25, 20262 min read
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Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha to build a $20B 'sovereign AI' bet — mostly for Europe's benefit

Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are merging into a ~$20B transatlantic 'sovereign AI' champion, anchored by a $600M Schwarz Group commitment. But the 90/10 ownership split tells the real story: this is an acquisition wearing the costume of a European merger.

May 25, 20263 min read
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DeepSeek makes a 75% price cut permanent — and turns cheap inference into a weapon

DeepSeek's flagship V4-Pro now costs a quarter of last week's price — and a fraction of what US labs charge. Permanent, not promotional. The AI price war just reset the floor for inference, right as OpenAI and Anthropic price their IPOs on the opposite assumption.

May 25, 20263 min read
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An OpenAI model disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture — a new kind of milestone

OpenAI says one of its reasoning models overturned the planar unit-distance conjecture, open since Erdős posed it in 1946, finding an infinite family of constructions that beat the assumed answer — externally verified. AI just crossed from solving known problems to disproving believed ones.

May 25, 20263 min read
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The new engineering job is verifying AI — and the micromanager is built for it

AI coding agents quietly inverted the senior-engineer job — less writing code, more verifying it. Stefan Wolpers names the new role, the Verification Architect, and nominates an unlikely candidate: the micromanager twenty years of agile coaching couldn’t fix.

May 22, 20264 min read
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Google didn't acquire Contextual AI. It took the team and the tech — the new playbook.

Google DeepMind is paying ~$80–90M to hire 20+ Contextual AI researchers (incl. Douwe Kiela) and license the tech — without acquiring the company. The same antitrust-dodging acqui-hire it ran with Windsurf, Character, and Hume.

May 22, 20263 min read
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OpenAI turned ChatGPT into an ad platform. The numbers say it’s harder than it looks.

OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager in ChatGPT — no minimum spend, $100M in six weeks, a $2.5B target. But it already swapped CPM for CPC as rates fell from $60 to $25. The answer engine is becoming an ad business.

May 22, 20263 min read
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Anthropic is about to post its first profit — in the two months its compute bill is discounted.

Anthropic told investors it expects a $559M operating profit on $10.9B Q2 revenue — its first ever. The catch the headline skips: those are the exact two months its $1.25B/month compute bill is discounted.

May 22, 20263 min read
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Nvidia beat everything — and the stock fell. The market stopped grading the quarter.

Record $81.6B revenue, data center up 92%, a $91B guide, an $80B buyback — and Nvidia's stock slid. When you're priced for perfection, the question isn't the quarter. It's the half-life of the AI buildout.

May 22, 20263 min read
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Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. The capex is the real headline.

Meta is laying off ~8,000 people and canceling 6,000 open roles while its 2026 AI capex climbs toward $145B. The layoff isn't the story — the trade between headcount and compute is.

May 22, 20263 min read
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Google's $100/month AI tier is the real story from I/O — the bundle war begins.

Buried in Google I/O was the number that matters: $100/month for AI Ultra and the always-on Gemini Spark agent. Google isn't selling a chatbot — it's selling a bundle OpenAI can't match.

May 22, 20263 min read
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OpenAI files to go public. The AI era is about to get a market price.

OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO targeting a ~$1 trillion September listing. The real story isn't the first-day pop — it's that an S-1 finally puts numbers under oath on the most capital-intensive software ever built.

May 22, 20263 min read
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Google's I/O 2026 bet: don't win the model race, own the rails agents run on.

Gemini 3.5 was the headline; the strategy was everything around it — Antigravity, Managed Agents, and WebMCP. Google isn’t racing to the best model. It’s making sure agents run on its browser, OS, and cloud.

May 22, 20263 min read
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AI writes most of the code now. Socket just raised $60M on the part nobody reviews.

Socket hit a $1B valuation selling supply-chain security to the same AI labs flooding the supply chain. When generation gets free, verification gets valuable — the fight is over who owns the door.

May 22, 20263 min read
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ServiceNow isn't fighting Cursor and Copilot. It's selling the layer above them.

ServiceNow made its Build Agent run inside every major AI coding tool. The bet: the coding agent is a commodity, so the moat moves to context and governance — who controls what ships.

May 22, 20263 min read
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siliXon wants you to design circuit boards by describing them. It just raised $1.5M.

A UK startup co-founded by Romanian engineer Mihai Mesteru turns a sentence into a production-ready PCB. The pre-seed is in; the hard part is whether the boards actually work.

May 22, 20263 min read
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AI writes most of the code now. The job that’s left is harder, not smaller.

Google says 75% of its new code is AI-generated, Microsoft 20–30%, Anthropic nearly all. That doesn't shrink engineering — it moves the job up the stack to architecture, review, and security.

May 21, 20264 min read
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Introduction to Machine Learning

What Is Machine Learning? Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn patterns from data without being explicitly programmed for every scenario.…

May 21, 20262 min read
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Getting Started with Hugging Face

The Hub for Open-Source AI Hugging Face has become the go-to platform for sharing, discovering, and using pre-trained machine learning models. Their Transformers library makes it possible to use…

May 21, 20263 min read
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Ethical Considerations in AI

The Responsibility Behind the Algorithm As AI systems become more powerful and pervasive, the ethical questions surrounding them have moved from philosophical debates to urgent practical concerns.…

May 21, 20263 min read
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Building Your First Neural Network

From Perceptrons to Deep Networks Neural networks mimic the structure of the human brain — interconnected nodes (neurons) that pass signals to one another. Despite the biological metaphor, they are…

May 21, 20262 min read
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AI in Production: Challenges and Best Practices

From Notebook to Production Training a model in a Jupyter notebook is one thing. Deploying it reliably in production is another. The gap between experimentation and production is where many AI…

May 21, 20262 min read
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Computer Vision: Applications and Techniques

Seeing the World Through Code Computer vision (CV) enables machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world. From facial recognition to autonomous vehicles, CV is one of the…

May 21, 20262 min read
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Natural Language Processing Basics

What Is NLP? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. From search engines and virtual assistants to…

May 21, 20262 min read