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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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

🌶️ OpenAI's Chip Just Outran Nvidia

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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

🛰️ Musk's Next Data Center Is in Space

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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Finance

🤗 Hugging Face Eyes A $13 Billion Exit

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
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Julia Huang, +1

DeepDive

Nobody Knows How Big the Biggest Run Is

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
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
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

⏸️ OpenAI Hits the Brakes on Itself

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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

🔥 Cursor Just Made GitHub Optional

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
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Community

"There is no market without scarcity": An Exclusive Interview on Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen on making AI pay for the open web

Aug 16, 2026

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22 min read

"There is no market without scarcity": An Exclusive Interview on Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen on making AI pay for the open web

Superintelligence spoke with the chief strategy officer at Cloudflare, about the September 15 defaults that block training and agent bots on ad-supported pages, the move from pay per crawl to pay per use, and what two billion daily "payment required" responses really prove.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

DeepDive

Nobody Built a Bigger Model

Aug 15, 2026

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22 min read

Nobody Built a Bigger Model

GLM-5.3 arrived this week on exactly the same base model as its predecessor, with one benchmark score six times higher. What that kind of jump actually buys, why it lands where it lands, and where it stops working.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Politics

🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

Aug 14, 2026

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7 min read

🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

The Chinese lab behind the GLM series only scaled post-training on a model it had already shipped, and a cyber capability nobody designed showed up. GLM-5.3 has already found 2,436 real vulnerabilities in live code, including one that had been sitting there since 1981.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Longevity

🛰️ xAI's Grok 4.6 Released: Frontier Intelligence At Insane Pricing

Aug 13, 2026

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7 min read

🛰️ xAI's Grok 4.6 Released: Frontier Intelligence At Insane Pricing

Grok 4.6 matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while charging a fifth of Sol's price per output token, and Musk still thinks that undersells it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
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