Jodie Foster Looked at Brad Pitt’s “F1” and Asked If a Computer Made It
“Wasn’t it?” Jodie Foster’s jab at Brad Pitt’s F1 is the perfect distillation of Hollywood’s new anxiety — that the polished blockbuster now feels machine-made.
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion — the Biggest Startup Acquisition Ever
Days after the biggest IPO in history, SpaceX is spending $60B in stock to buy Cursor. It’s the largest startup acquisition ever — and a very Musk kind of vertical integration.
GPT-5.6 Is Here: Sol, Terra and Luna — and Terra Is Aimed Straight at Claude Sonnet 5
GPT-5.6 went public in three tiers. Sol is the coding flagship with a subagent “ultra” mode; Terra is priced to punch Claude Sonnet 5 in the mouth. What to actually use.
The AI Boom Has a Crime Subplot: Thieves Are Now Robbing Data-Center Sites for Copper
The AI boom is so big it has organized crime rings now. Thieves are hitting data-center supply chains for copper and gear — and shipping it to exactly where you’d guess.
Quantinuum’s $1.68B Nasdaq IPO Tested the Quantum Rally — and Closed Flat
The biggest pure-play quantum IPO yet raised $1.68B — and closed flat on day one. A market watcher’s read on what Quantinuum’s debut says about quantum stocks.
Anthropic Is Talking to Samsung About Building Its Own AI Chip
Anthropic is reportedly in early talks with Samsung to build a custom AI chip on a 2nm process. Everyone’s trying to escape the Nvidia tax — few will pull it off.
Microsoft’s $2.5B “Frontier Company”: the Pivot From Selling Models to Deploying Them
Microsoft is putting $2.5B and 6,000 people into embedding with customers to actually deploy AI. It’s the clearest sign yet that the money is moving from models to implementation.
Quantum Computing’s “Transistor Moment”: Willow, Neutral Atoms and Washington’s New Push
Error correction crossed real thresholds, a supercomputer set a 50-qubit simulation record, and Washington started treating quantum like a strategic industry. The state of quantum in 2026.
Polymarket Paid Teenagers to Fake $1.9M in Winning Bets. The Bets Would’ve Lost.
140 million views of fake wins, filmed on cloned websites by teenage “clippers.” The Polymarket scandal is a perfect parable for the everything-is-fake internet economy.
Palantir’s CEO Had a “Televised Nervous Breakdown” on CNBC — and Some of It Was Right
“This is the voice of American business being channeled through me!” Alex Karp’s CNBC meltdown was unhinged television. It was also, annoyingly, half correct.