The AI industry had quite a week

The hype, filtered out. Nine stories from a frankly ridiculous few days.

A $5bn Startup Wants to Break Nvidia, and Meta's Getting Sued Over Its AI

DeepSeek's Shanghai IPO, the vertical-AI gold rush, and the truth about which model to actually pay for. Nine picks, hype filtered out.

The Week Nvidia Swallowed Hugging Face

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9bn, OpenAI plugged ChatGPT into 325M patient records, and the market bounced as bond yields cooled.

The Frontier Beyond Chatbots

Four teams betting billions that AI's future is understanding the physical world, not just text about it.

SpaceX bought your code editor, and the Pentagon froze out Claude

Nine picks: SpaceX's $60bn Cursor deal, Manus escapes Meta, Udio locks the gate, and the market that ignored good news.

An AI chip startup doubled to $21bn, and a support bot got outed by a haiku

Walmart beat and got sold anyway, the Fed floated rate hikes, and Google moved its agent protocol in with MCP.

An AI agent got its own laptop, and an AI newsroom scooped Wired

A cool inflation print pushed the S&P to a record, Oracle put a quantum computer next to its GPUs, and Webb found three black holes in one galaxy.

OpenAI hit its own cyber red line, and a server maker booked $60bn in a quarter

OpenAI paused Astra over hacking fears, Writer and Copilot chase cheaper tokens, and entangled photons survived 62km of bad fibre.

OpenAI solved 10 maths problems you can't use, and the AI escape artists wrote their own rules

AMD beat everything and tanked, Micron closes on #2, D-Wave crashes the quantum party, and legal AI hits $15.5bn.

Meta wants your code, Amazon burned its cash, and the dodo gets an apology

Meta wants your code, Amazon burned its cash, and the dodo gets an apology

Nvidia's $250bn favour to itself, and a chip stock that 470%'d

Nvidia bankrolls its own biggest customer, Midjourney and FLUX level up, and OpenAI kills a tool you might have built on.

Opus 5 at half price, and a 2.8-trillion-parameter freebie

Anthropic holds the line on price, Moonshot gives away a monster model, and librarians teach the off switch.

OpenAI's AI hacked a rival to cheat on a test

Plus a comet older than the Sun, a frog that might fight cancer, and a $130bn revolt. Nine stories, hype filtered out.

Surge pricing came for your chatbot

Plus a quantum milestone, a market wobble, and a mummy clutching Homer. Nine stories, hype filtered out.

The week AI discovered electricity costs money

Apple v OpenAI, a record chip listing, and Thiel vs the Pope

A $60B Cursor deal, GPT-5.6, and copper thieves

The week AI got cheaper, faster, and slightly unhinged

Cheap frontier AI, and the words that mean nothing

This week: MiniMax's price bomb (read the small print), plus a field guide to AI buzzwords.