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A Company Just Showed Up Commanding 19 AIs at Once — The Real Question Perplexity Computer Raises Isn't "Who Built It" but "Who Conducts It"

A company that used to be a search engine just dropped a "digital employee" that runs 19 AI models simultaneously. This $200-a-month service searches with OpenAI's model, codes with Anthropic's model, and generates video with Google's model. The AI war is flipping from "who builds the smartest model" to "who orchestrates best" — and nobody saw this pivot coming.

2/28/2026

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The Company That Walked Away From $200 Million and Might Get Drafted Anyway — Why Anthropic Drew a Line in Front of the Pentagon

The U.S. Department of Defense demanded Anthropic remove its AI safety guardrails and threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act. Anthropic refused, willing to walk away from a $200 million contract. This standoff over AI militarization could reshape the entire tech industry's future.

2/27/2026

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The Era of AI Agents Talking to Each Other Has Arrived — Why NIST Set the Stage and Big Tech Came Running

The autonomous operation of AI agents is expanding at breakneck speed, and NIST has just launched a sweeping initiative to establish interoperability and security standards for agent-to-agent communication. A new front has opened in the technology standards war, and the winner of this battle will dominate the AI ecosystem for the next decade.

2/26/2026

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The Real Reason Apple Ditched Its $3,499 Headset and Pulled Out a Pair of Glasses

While Vision Pro barely sold 45,000 units a year, Meta's $299 sunglasses hit 7 million. Apple's late pivot to display-free smart glasses raises the question everyone's asking: is this an admission that three years of spatial computing was a dead end, or the most underrated comeback play in tech history?

2/24/2026

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"The AI That Built Itself" Just Dropped — So Why Is Nobody Celebrating?

GPT-5.3-Codex debugged its own training and managed its own deployment, making AI self-improvement a reality rather than a theory. The real question is whether humanity can keep up with how fast this loop is closing.

2/24/2026

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Sending AI Missionaries Through the Peace Corps? Let's Talk About What America's 'Tech Corps' Is Really About

The US is repurposing the Peace Corps into an AI export vehicle. The plan is to deploy 5,000 tech volunteers to developing nations to install American AI solutions, but beneath the 'service' branding lies a Cold War-style tech diplomacy gambit aimed at halting China's AI expansion. The real question is whether developing nations actually want America's goodwill or simply the freedom to choose what works best for them.

2/23/2026

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They Were Stumbling a Year Ago — The Real Story Behind China's 23-Billion-View Robot Kung Fu

Twenty-four humanoid robots nailed kung fu backflips on the Spring Festival Gala stage. These are the same machines that could barely manage a folk dance twelve months earlier. Behind the 23 billion views lies an industrial tectonic shift where a $13,500 robot is starting to outpace Tesla Optimus.

2/23/2026

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Why Did the Company America Sanctioned Only Get Stronger? — The Sanctions Paradox GLM-5 Just Proved

America's Entity List tried to strangle Chinese AI firm Zhipu, but two years later the company surged 80% on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and dropped a frontier open-source model. GLM-5, trained exclusively on Huawei chips with 744 billion parameters, slashed Silicon Valley's price tag by six-fold and slapped an MIT license on top. Did sanctions actually breed a monster?

2/23/2026

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Kung Fu Robots Look Amazing, But No One's Built a Dishwashing One Yet

Chinese humanoid robots stunned the world with backflips at the Spring Festival Gala, racking up 23 billion views. Behind the spectacle lies China's explosive grip on 90% of global humanoid shipments. But whether this dazzling performance marks the dawn of a real revolution or the opening act of a new bubble remains an entirely different question.

2/22/2026

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Disney Paid a Billion Dollars. ByteDance Just Took It. — The Two Futures of AI Video

ByteDance's AI video model Seedance 2.0 has ignited a global copyright war by cloning Hollywood characters without permission. Meanwhile, Disney struck a $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, choosing the opposite path. These two divergent futures are exposing a fundamental design flaw in copyright for the AI age.

2/22/2026

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Is a Developer Who Doesn't Write Code Still a Developer? The Weight of Spotify's Question

Spotify's senior devs haven't written a single line since December, and the real story behind it is messier than you think.

2/21/2026