Is AI Still Profitable?
The question "Is AI still profitable?" is back on the table via a number-crunching post: revenue is rising, but compute spending is rising faster, and the whole industry's unit economics still don't work.
AI News and Industry Updates
Pages Written for LLMs to Read: The llms.txt Idea
"If you're an LLM, please read this"—behind pages like these is the llms.txt proposal: like robots.txt, giving the AI that crawls your site a dedicated set of instructions.
Recreating Project Hail Mary's Stellar Navigation Chart With Real Star Catalogs
Someone used real star-catalog data from the Gaia satellite to make the kind of stellar navigation chart found in Project Hail Mary. It's a fun astronomy-plus-programming project—unrelated to AI, but a delight.
An OpenAI Model Overturns a Discrete-Geometry Conjecture
An OpenAI model found a counterexample to a discrete-geometry conjecture, disproving it. Another case of AI participating in mathematical research—this time "tearing down" rather than "proving."
A Commencement Speech Praising AI Gets Booed by Students
A commencement speech was drowned out by boos for extolling AI's bright prospects. The scene was filmed and spread, becoming a slice of public sentiment.
"I Joined Anthropic"
An onboarding essay titled "I Joined Anthropic" spread on HN. Posts like this are common; this one sparked discussion because the author wrote about the stay-or-go dilemma very honestly.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless
Anthropic acquired the SDK-tooling company Stainless. This company long generated official client libraries for the major AI labs, and once absorbed by a buyer, its neutral position is gone.
Musk Loses His Lawsuit Against Altman and OpenAI
Musk's lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI ends in defeat. This dispute—which escalated from an open-letter feud to the courtroom—now has, for the moment, a legal full stop.
AI Won't Make Your Processes Go Faster
An engineering-management-oriented blog argues that an organization's delivery speed is bottlenecked on process and decisions, not typing speed, so the speedup AI brings is far lower than expected.
AI Is a Technology, Not a Product
"AI is a technology, not a product"—this short piece uses a single sentence to hit the sore spot of many startups: treating model capability as the product itself is the common ailment of this round's bubble.
SANA-WM: A 2.6B Open Source World Model That Generates One-Minute 720p Video
The open source world model SANA-WM is out: just 2.6B parameters, capable of generating a minute of coherent 720p video. A small model achieving this is why it's being talked about.
Frontier AI Is Killing Open CTF
A eulogy-cum-manifesto from the security community: frontier models' problem-solving has drained open-registration CTF competitions of meaning, and veteran players are bowing out.
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