📰 News OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%
OpenAI's $100 billion ad revenue forecast is outpacing reality by 90%. The entire chatbot ad market may be worth less than $5.41 billion by 2030.
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📰 News Samsung Threatens to Delete Your Health Data If You Refuse AI Training
Samsung's new AI training consent toggle blocks cloud backups and threatens permanent data deletion for users who opt out. A corporate first in coercive AI data harvesting.
📰 News Zig's Creator Calls Out Anthropic's AI Rewrite Narrative as 'Smoke'
The Zig creator's blunt takedown of Anthropic's Bun rewrite narrative has the developer community choosing sides in a fight that's really about AI's credibility.
📰 News Claude Code Sends 33,000 Tokens Before You Type a Word — OpenCode Sends 7,000
Claude Code burns 33K tokens of system overhead per request. OpenCode burns 7K. With production configs, both hit 75K+ — and subagents multiply the cost 4.2x.
📰 News DoorDash, Siemens, and Airbnb Are Quietly Switching to Chinese AI Models
FT reports DoorDash, Siemens, and Airbnb are using Chinese AI models to cut costs. A coding session that costs $10 on Claude runs 50 cents on DeepSeek.
📰 News George Hotz Loves LLMs, Hates the Hype — and Bets Frontier Labs Can't Capture the Value
George Hotz: AI is the continuation of the computer revolution. He loves it. But he bets everything he has that the 'flash of light in the sky' singularity won't happen, and frontier labs won't capture the value they claim.
📰 News Hyundai Workers Strike Over AI Robots Taking Their Jobs — and the Bonus Gap
Hyundai workers are striking for bigger bonuses following semiconductor deals, and demanding guarantees that AI and robots won't take their jobs.
📰 News Software Engineers Are Reviewing AI Code They Didn't Write — and It's Breaking Them
Google says 75% of its code is now AI-written. Engineers earning $200K+ are being told to use AI more. The profession is fracturing between those who adapt and those who can't.
📰 News Fields Medalist Terry Tao 'Vibe Coded' Math Applets With AI in Hours What Took Months by Hand
One of the world's greatest living mathematicians spent a weekend 'vibe coding' with AI agents. The result: 24 ported applets, new interactive tools, and a net wash on code quality.
📰 News An AI 'Actor' Is Getting a Feature Film. Hollywood Should Be Worried
Tilly Norwood isn't human. She's an Instagram avatar getting a feature film. The industry that banned AI actors at the Oscars is watching.
📰 News Australia's Copyright Battle With AI Giants Reaches Boiling Point — and New Zealand Should Be Watching
A leaked proposal would trade Australian copyright protections for $50B in datacentre investment and a $350M/year creative fund. Artists are outraged, Labor is divided, and the PM speaks Wednesday.
📰 News Gemini 3.5 Pro Leaks Point to July 17 Launch — 2 Million Token Context and a Reasoning Mode Locked Behind a Paywall
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Pro is rumoured for July 17 with 2M tokens and Deep Think reasoning. But the reasoning mode behind a $250/month paywall raises questions about who gets frontier intelligence.