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AI and Finance

Korea Just Made AI a Public Utility, Free for Everyone

Aug 31, 2026

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6 min read

Korea Just Made AI a Public Utility, Free for Everyone

Free, unlimited AI for an entire nation: inside Seoul's plan to treat intelligence like electricity

Julia Huang, +1

Community

🎓 DataCamp and the $40 Million Tutoring Bill

Aug 30, 2026

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20 min read

🎓 DataCamp and the $40 Million Tutoring Bill

The open model wins their own evals, so why do 300,000 learners still run on frontier APIs? Exclusive Interview with with Jonathan Cornelissen, co-founder and CEO of DataCamp, and Yusuf Saber, the company's Chief AI Officer, about running an AI tutor at scale.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

DeepDive

Aug 29, 2026

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17 min read

The Orbit Charges Twice

Everyone is arguing about whether training or inference belongs in space. They are really arguing about which cable they are paying for.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Politics

Aug 28, 2026

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5 min read

🦆 The $399 Robot You Can Retrain

Microduck puts a real robot-training lab on your desk for $399, and Nvidia just moved to buy its parent company Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Longevity

🐉 China Strikes Back With Two Open Models

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

🐉 China Strikes Back With Two Open Models

China Strikes Back: two Chinese labs, one day, two open models within points of the frontier at a fraction of flagship prices. Plus: Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

Aug 26, 2026

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6 min read

🌶️ OpenAI's Chip Just Outran Nvidia

OpenAI's first custom chip posts its first public results: up to 1.9x more AI work per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency than Nvidia's flagship systems, on a public benchmark

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

Aug 25, 2026

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7 min read

🛰️ Musk's Next Data Center Is in Space

SpaceX and Nvidia have designed a server rack for orbit, while a new chip aims at the work AI agents do between model calls.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Finance

Aug 24, 2026

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6 min read

🤗 Hugging Face Eyes A $13 Billion Exit

The neutral home of open-source AI hires a bank and tests an exit at three times its last valuation

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Community

Can you switch your inference on a random Tuesday? (An Exclusive with PandaOS on what European AI sovereignty actually costs)

Aug 23, 2026

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20 min read

Can you switch your inference on a random Tuesday? (An Exclusive with PandaOS on what European AI sovereignty actually costs)

Superintelligence spoke with Marco Szeidenleder and Philipp Türker, co-founders of PandaOS, about the Anthropic shutoff, why a European postcode does not make an American model sovereign, and the one test that tells you whether your AI stack is really yours. Interview by Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum.

Julia Huang, +1

DeepDive

Aug 22, 2026

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19 min read

Nobody Knows How Big the Biggest Run Is

The AI clusters grew tenfold, the disclosures vanished, and the laws meant to govern frontier training are written in a unit no government measures. A DeepDive into how pretraining actually works, and why the outside world just lost the ability to see its scale.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Politics

🏗️ $130 Billion Of Data Centers Hit A Wall

Aug 21, 2026

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7 min read

🏗️ $130 Billion Of Data Centers Hit A Wall

Community opposition stalled 75 projects in a single quarter, organized groups now operate in 49 states, and Senate Republicans are warning AI companies it could cost them Ohio.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Longevity

🧬 A Cancer Vaccine Designed With AI Just Made Medical History

Aug 20, 2026

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7 min read

🧬 A Cancer Vaccine Designed With AI Just Made Medical History

Moderna and Merck post the first Phase 3 win for an mRNA cancer therapy, built around as many as 34 targets an AI model picked out of the patient's own tumor.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

Aug 19, 2026

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8 min read

⏸️ OpenAI Hits the Brakes on Itself

For the first time, OpenAI has slowed its own scaling to let safety catch up: a two-week pause on RL training, its largest frontier run on hold, and a 20% monitoring tax on the compute it watches.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

Aug 18, 2026

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7 min read

🔥 Cursor Just Made GitHub Optional

Origin puts repositories, pull requests and agents in the same place, and quietly turns the AI editor into where your code actually lives

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Finance

💸 The AI Middleman Is Worth 7 Billion Dollars

Aug 17, 2026

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7 min read

💸 The AI Middleman Is Worth 7 Billion Dollars

A payments company just paid roughly five times OpenRouter's last valuation for the layer that decides which model answers you, and bills you for it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

Korea Just Made AI a Public Utility, Free for Everyone

🎓 DataCamp and the $40 Million Tutoring Bill

The Orbit Charges Twice

🦆 The $399 Robot You Can Retrain

🐉 China Strikes Back With Two Open Models

🌶️ OpenAI's Chip Just Outran Nvidia

🛰️ Musk's Next Data Center Is in Space

🤗 Hugging Face Eyes A $13 Billion Exit

Can you switch your inference on a random Tuesday? (An Exclusive with PandaOS on what European AI sovereignty actually costs)

Nobody Knows How Big the Biggest Run Is

🏗️ $130 Billion Of Data Centers Hit A Wall

🧬 A Cancer Vaccine Designed With AI Just Made Medical History

⏸️ OpenAI Hits the Brakes on Itself

🔥 Cursor Just Made GitHub Optional

💸 The AI Middleman Is Worth 7 Billion Dollars

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