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NY Times: Sam Altman’s Next High-Wire Act: Getting OpenAI to Make More Money (Apr. 24, 2026)
Sam Altman shifted OpenAI from fringe projects to revenue-focused work, cutting products like Sora, and prioritizing coding tools, a desktop super app, and ads. -
NY Times: A.I. Start-Ups From Canada and Germany Merge to Take On Silicon Valley (Apr. 24, 2026)
Canadian start-up Cohere is acquiring Germany’s Aleph Alpha in a trans-Atlantic merger backed by both governments, to offer a sovereign alternative to U.S. and Chinese A.I. firms. -
Simon Willison: An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (Apr. 24, 2026)
Anthropic found three harness bugs that degraded Claude Code’s performance, notably one that repeatedly cleared older session context, making the model seem forgetful, repetitive, and slow. -
Simon Willison: DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (Apr. 24, 2026)
DeepSeek released V4 preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and they are highly efficient, very low-cost versus frontier models. -
Anthropic: Anthropic and NEC partner to build AI-native engineering at scale in Japan (Apr. 24, 2026)
NEC will deploy Anthropic’s Claude to about 30,000 employees and build a large AI-native engineering team. They will co-develop secure, industry-specific AI for finance, manufacturing, and local government. -
NY Times: DeepSeek’s Sequel Set to Extend China’s Reach in Open-Source A.I. (Apr. 23, 2026)
DeepSeek’s V4, released open-source, excels at writing code, and helped fuel China’s push to share powerful, low-cost A.I. models worldwide. -
Silicon Continent: The task is not the job (Apr. 24, 2026)
AI may automate many white-collar tasks, but jobs are bundles, so displacement hinges on how cheaply components can be separated. -
WSJ: Oracle’s Deluge of AI Debt Pushes Wall Street to the Limit (Apr. 23, 2026)
Oracle’s $300 billion OpenAI deal has strained banks, as massive data‑center construction loans hit concentration limits, delaying financing and forcing some developers to lease to other tenants. -
WSJ: Behind Meta’s Huge Layoffs Is a Relentless Shift Toward AI (Apr. 23, 2026)
Meta is pushing AI into employees’ workflows, creating ultraflat teams, and planning to lay off about 8,000 workers, while rolling out software to record keystrokes to train AI agents. -
SSRN: The Jevons Paradox and Insatiable Humans: Why AI Won't Empty the Finance Suite by Eldar Maksymov :: SSRN (Apr. 6, 2026)
When spreadsheets cut costs, accounting jobs rose fourfold, showing cheaper tools increase demand. AI’s cost drop will expand finance work, creating services like real-time auditing, AI assurance, and many unforeseen tasks. -
SSRN: The Thermodynamic Efficiency Inversion (Feb. 20, 2026)
LLM text replies use less energy than loading ad-tech powered pages. -
WSJ: Musk’s Chip-Making Vision With Intel Is a Distant Prospect (Apr. 24, 2026)
Elon Musk’s Terafab aims for massive, vertically integrated chip production, but its ambitious timeline, technological hurdles, and Intel reliance make success unlikely soon.