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Kantrowitz: OpenAI Will Cut Prices to Leverage Infrastructure Scale Against Anthropic
“I think they will. I mean, I think that there's, if you think about it strategically, right? Anthropic has been winning. It's also, it's like part of this is about lifetime value, right? Anthropic has been winning over a lot of these enterprise customers with …”
Siegler: Pichai admitted Google is behind competitors in AI coding
“You even heard Sundar Pichai was on you know, with Casey Newton and Kevin Ruse on their podcast, and he explicitly said, like, just straight up, like that they're a little bit behind in, in coding, you know, with regard to AI and everyone knows that this is so…”
Siegler: Zuckerberg Acknowledged Meta Could Launch Cloud Infrastructure For Outside Businesses
“Zuckerberg, even this week or this past week was in the news again saying, like, basically acknowledging that with all the capex spend, if they need to, they can roll out a cloud, right? They can roll out a cloud that other businesses can use.”
Siegler: SpaceX Will Go Public Within Days
“That a lot could change in between now and the time that they would go out, but SpaceX is going to go public, you know, this week, the end of this week or early next. And so or maybe the 11th, you know, at the latest or whatnot.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Raised $65B at a $900B Pre-Money Valuation
“It is going to, it raised sixty-five billion dollars in financing that values it at nine hundred billion pre-money.”
Kantrowitz: Robinhood is launching AI agent trading and purchasing integration
“Robinhood is launching a new feature that lets customers hand their trading and credit card purchasing decisions to their favorite artificial intelligence tools. Robinhood users can link an AI agent like Anthropics Cloud or the Coding Agent Cursor to separate …”
NVIDIA's El Hallak: OpenClaw is the fastest-growing GitHub project in history
“And OpenClaw became the fastest growing GitHub project on GitHub. Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right?”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reported a -122% adjusted operating margin in Q1
“OpenAI told investors that its adjusted operating income margin was -122% in the first quarter. That means for every dollar of revenue the company generated, it lost one dollar and 22 cents, even after excluding some large items such as stock based compensatio…”
Kantrowitz: WSJ reports Anthropic will generate $10.9B in Q2, reaching profitability
“So they're going to make 10.9 billion In the second quarter, and the journal says it's an explosive rate of growth that will help it turn an operating profit for the first time.”
Roy: SpaceX is targeting a $40B to $80B IPO raise
“Again, like SpaceX is targeting a raise between 40 and eighty billion dollars.”
Roy: SpaceX S-1 shows Anthropic committed to $1.25B monthly spend
“In the SpaceX S one document, they talk about how Anthropic has agreed. And this is one of the big, like revenue boosters for them. To spend 1.25 billion dollars per month through May 2029. But they explicitly say in May and June, 2026, it is at a reduced fee.”
Kantrowitz: Blue Origin filed FCC plans for 51,600 orbital data centers
“Blue Origin, which is his space company, recently submitted plans to the FCC to send 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit as part of an initiative dubbed Project Sunrise.”
Dolen: Construction industry is 500,000 workers short for data center buildout
“A couple of construction companies were saying that they are roughly 500,000 people short of workers to build the requisite data centers and some of the infrastructure as necessary.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud Platform Soon
“And I anticipate, and you know, given my conversations that I've had with Thomas Curry and the head of Google cloud platform, that it will come to Google fairly soon as well. He wants it there.”
Kantrowitz: Microsoft has secured OpenAI IP rights through 2032
“And basically Microsoft has access to OpenAI's IP till 2032, and that is the state of the partnership today.”
Siegler: OpenAI owes Microsoft rev share even on AWS and Google
“While Microsoft no longer has to pay revenue share back to open AI still has to pay it to Microsoft and they have to pay it even when they're using AWS or potentially Google in the future.”
Siegler: OpenAI products must ship first on Azure under deal terms
“Microsoft remains open as primary cloud partner. And open AI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities.”
Alex Kantrowitz predicts Elon Musk will fail to oust OpenAI leaders
“Now, I know Musk is trying to get Musk and Sam Altman, sorry, he's trying to get Sam Altman and Greg Brockman removed from the top of opening. I don't think that's going to happen.”
U.S. Senate unanimously votes to bar senators from prediction market trading
“The U.S. Senate unanimously. How rarely do we see something along bipartisan lines barring senators from trading on prediction markets?”
Brockman: OpenAI cuts intelligence prices tenfold to hundredfold year-over-year
“We have dropped prices on the same level of intelligence year over year, sometimes by literally a factor of a hundred, right? It's like at least in order of magnitude year over year, sometimes literally a hundred.”
Véliz: The Markup found mortgage algorithms denied Black applicants with identical profiles
“The markup had a very long story a few years ago about how two people who had applied for a mortgage had been denied, and when the markup investigated, their file looked exactly the same or very similar to other two people who happened to be white, and they, a…”
Véliz: The safest countries globally are not the most surveilled
“The safest countries in the world are not the most surveilled ones. So Spain is one example. It has some of the lower statistics for any kind of crime, including homicide and so on, violent crimes. And it's not better surveilled Than the US or the UK. And in f…”
Véliz: People posting under real identities online are actually more aggressive
“Even though it's very intuitive to think that way, when you look at the empirical data, it shows that people who are identified online tend to be more aggressive, and then they tend to be more followed and more successful in that aggression.”
Véliz: HBR study shows AI makes workers less productive
“There was a paper recently at the Harvard Business Review that suggested that even when people think they're being more productive with AI, when you have researchers look at it, they're being less productive because they're spending a lot of time fixing what t…”
Véliz: Politicians Bet on Themselves to Manipulate Prediction Markets
“If you want to influence public perception and you have enough money, you can bet heavily on something or someone to make it look more popular, and we already have examples of politicians betting on themselves.”
Kantrowitz: Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO, John Ternus succeeds him
“Tim Cook has stepped down as the CEO of Apple and John Ternus is going to replace him as of September first.”
Kantrowitz: Gemini and Claude were trained on TPUs and Trainium, not NVIDIA
“If you look at the TPU, which is the accelerator that Google has been, has put out and Tranium, which is Amazon's version of it you know, two of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini were trained on it”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Meets Susie Wiles at White House
“Anthropics CEO Dario Amadei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, a breakthrough in his effort to resolve the company's bitter AI fight with the Pentagon.”
Michael: Pentagon AI systems require human authorization, not an autonomous 'Skynet'
“It's not like, it's not a Skynet thing, like, no. It is a tool like any other tool that you might have on your computer, or in your war room, or with your team, except it's on your computer, visualized where, but you still have Checks and balances. You still h…”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic cannot shut off Claude models hosted in third-party clouds
“Claude, I mean, Anthropic wouldn't have the capability to turn that off if it's hosted somewhere else.
Maybe upgrade it, in which case you flip them out, but to turn it off, they don't really have that capability.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Is Giving Microsoft Mythos Only to Test, Not Resell
“Anthropic isn't giving Microsoft mythos to sell through Azure. It's giving Microsoft mythos to test.”
Roy: Stanford Meta-Harness Research Shows 6x Performance Gap on Fixed Models
“Now, Stanford came up with the idea of a meta harness. It's a harness over other harnesses. It's the idea that like the that you can change the harness around a fixed model and see a six x performance gap on the same benchmark model.”
Meta Intranet Leaderboard 'Claudeonomics' Ranked Token Usage for 85,000 Employees
“The ranking set up by Meta, by a Meta employee on its intranet, use company data, measure how many tokens employees are burning through, dubbed Claudeonomics after the flagship product from Anthropic, the leaderboards, leaderboard aggregates AI usage from 85,0…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is developing a coding, ChatGPT, and browser super app
“They're making this super app, which is going to combine coding and chat CPT and a browser.”
Brockman: North Dakota Utility Rates Decreased Following Local Data Center Construction
“We've seen, for example, in North Dakota that people's rates have gone down because a data center has shown up and has helped with improving the utilities for everyone.”
OpenAI plans desktop superapp unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and browser
“OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform codex, and browser into a desktop super app, a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and business customers.”
Citadel data shows software engineering job postings are rising on Indeed
“Citadel, that put out the fact that, like, people are talking about how software engineering is gonna be wiped out by this stuff, and meanwhile, the jobs on Indeed are going up.”
ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x
“If you look at the gap between them and the number two Gemini on web, it's about still two and a half, three X. The gap between them and something like a Claude is closer to, like, 30 X. So even though a lot of these other apps are getting more attention, Chat…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI burned $8B in 2025 and expects $57B burn in 2027
“Last year, the company burned eight billion dollars in cash. However, the company expects to burn twenty five billion this year and fifty seven billion next year. About thirty billion more than the total previously predicted.”
Huang says Nvidia's investment in OpenAI might be its last
“Jensen Wong said the thirty billion dollars that he and NVIDIA invested in OpenAI might be the last. Why? Is it because he doesn't trust Sam Altman, or is it because, you know, he doesn't believe in the technology? No. He says the reason for that is because th…”
Kantrowitz: Scale AI shifted majority of training to reinforcement learning
“I just did the story for with about scale AI saying that the majority of their training has moved to reinforcement learning where they train models to act in specific environments like filling out forms, and then they baked those capabilities back Into the mod…”
Horowitz: Anthropic was first frontier AI lab doing classified defense work
“If you look at the relationship between Anthropic and the Pentagon, Anthropic was the first frontier AI lab willing to do classified work. To support American national security.”
Horowitz: Anthropic tech integrates into the Pentagon via Palantir Maven
“And that's because the way that Anthropic's technology is often integrated within the Pentagon is through a Palantir product called Maven Smart System.”
Siegler: Amazon is investing $50B in OpenAI across two tranches
“Fifty billion dollars. Yes. It's over like two tranches. It sounds like, you know, 15 and then 35, but still fifty billion dollars that, that Amazon is investing”
OpenAI expands its AWS agreement by $100 billion over eight years
“OpenAI said it's expanding its existing thirty-eight billion dollar agreement with Amazon Web Services by one hundred billion over the next year, eight years.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is charging a $60 CPM for conversational advertising
“One of the interesting things about open AI is advertising. Now they've taken a lot of flack for it, maybe with good reason, but one of the interesting things about it is it's so high touch and that's why they're charging like a 60 dollars CPM, which is insane…”
Kantrowitz: Amazon experienced outages after an AI agent deleted its files
“There was just the story in the FT that Amazon had lots of had outages because The agent was like, you know what I'm going to do to fix this problem? Just erase everything.”
Manyika: Google Willow chip solved 10-septillion-year benchmark in under five minutes
“Our Willow chip, for example, hit a big milestone. It was a big enough deal about a year, year and a half ago where, you know, it was able to do in, you know, a computation, a benchmark computation called RCS, which would take a classic frontier supercomputer,…”