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Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

🤖 Elon Just Hired A Bot Into Your Company

xAI's Grok Bot is the first product out of SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor deal, and it keeps working after you close the laptop.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 12, 2026

Robotics

Meta's Big Open Source Comeback

Zuckerberg reopens the weights with a 30B agent model, promises Meta's frontier model next, and leaves the labs that sell tokens to explain what they still charge for.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 11, 2026

AI and Finance

🛑 The Model OpenAI Won’t Release

Astra is the first model OpenAI has ever treated as “critical” for cybersecurity, and the first it has slowed down over what it can already do

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 10, 2026

Community

Exclusive Interview with the Co-Founder & CEO of Eve: Jay Madheswaran

Superintelligence spoke with Jay about why plaintiff law is running ahead of BigLaw on AI, what actually gets automated inside a case file, and why he thinks review, not drafting, becomes the next bottleneck.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 9, 2026

DeepDive

📉 Who Is Really Paying for Cheap Intelligence

In eight days OpenAI cut its smallest model by 80 percent and left its frontier model untouched, while the cheapest end of the market warned customers that a significant increase was coming. The pattern says something uncomfortable about who is actually paying for cheap intelligence.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 8, 2026

AI and Politics

TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

ByteDance is pre-training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times China's biggest, while OpenAI tunes ChatGPT for trust and Europe's bot-disclosure rules kick in.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 7, 2026

Longevity

🧠 Google Shakeup: Hassabis Moves Up, Google's Research Legends Walk Out

Four of the engineers behind Google Search, TensorFlow and Gemini just left to start their own company, on the same day Demis Hassabis handed over Google DeepMind

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 6, 2026

AI Research

🌐 The Website Nobody Meant to Hack

Two independent evaluators found frontier agents acting outside their sandbox, and in one case a model attacked a real website.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 5, 2026

Robotics

🎬 China Open-Sourced the Cheapest Video Studio Yet

MiniMax published the weights for a model that makes 2K video and its own stereo sound in a single pass, and for the first time an open system sits at the top of a video ranking.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 4, 2026

AI and Finance

🤖 The Agent That Never Stopped Coding

Qwen3.8-Max lands a single point off the top three on Arena's coding board at a fifth of GPT-5.6 Sol's output price, and the agent built on it has run a public repository for three straight weeks

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 3, 2026

Community

🏰 The Only Moat That Survives AI

Lightspark co-founder and MIT economist Christian Catalini on why almost every AI moat is already melting, and the one network effect that gets stronger every time the models improve

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 2, 2026

DeepDive

⚖️ The Duel That Never Happened

Two numbers set the AI industry arguing at the end of July. One of them was never a single measurement at all, and the other one nobody outside a company meeting has actually seen.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 1, 2026

AI and Politics

🐋 DeepSeek Answered OpenAI's Price Cut Overnight

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on Thursday. By Friday morning DeepSeek was live at a quarter of the output price, speaking OpenAI's own API format.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 31, 2026

Longevity

🔁 GPT-5.6 Just Made Itself 15% More Efficient

OpenAI pointed Sol at the infrastructure that serves it. The model rewrote its own GPU kernels for 20% lower serving costs and redesigned its own draft model for more than 15% better token generation.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 30, 2026

AI Research

🧯 1,000+ AI Insiders Just Asked for a Brake Pedal

An AI agent escaped its sandbox and exposed why the people building these systems want a way to slow them down.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 29, 2026

Robotics

📦 The Biggest Model Ever Built Is Now Free

Moonshot released Kimi K3's full 2.8-trillion-parameter weights as a free download, and it ranks third on the global intelligence index.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 28, 2026

AI and Finance

👑 Opus 5 Takes the Crown at Full Throttle

Anthropic's new flagship lands within half a point of Claude Fable 5 on CursorBench at roughly half the cost per task, and it did not raise the price of Opus 4.8 to do it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 27, 2026

Community

🔐 Your AI Agent Has Too Much Access

"You cannot trust the agent to enforce its own policies": Arcade CEO Alex Salazar on why AI agents break the moment they try to act

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 26, 2026

DeepDive

What Actually Escaped in July, and What Only Looked Like It

In July, an OpenAI model spent an hour breaking its own sandbox, and a ransomware campaign rewrote its own failed payload in 31 seconds. One of those is confirmed, one is close to a coin flip, and the difference decides what containment still means.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 25, 2026

AI and Politics

🎙️ OpenAI and Anthropic Both Reach for the Mic

On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic both turned voice into a way to get real work done, from writing code in Codex to running your connected apps through Claude.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 24, 2026

Longevity

🚫 Founders to Trump: Don't Ban China's AI

Nearly 200 founders are urging Trump to keep American builders' access to Chinese open-weight models.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 23, 2026

AI Research

🔓 An OpenAI Model Broke Out to Cheat

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cyber exam. Plus Gemini 3.6 Flash lands, and Codex races to 10 million users.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 22, 2026

Robotics

🏭 China's own chips make it independent of the US

Z.AI just switched on a 1-gigawatt data center running entirely on Chinese-made chips, as Washington debates locking Chinese models out.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 21, 2026

AI and Finance

🐉 Alibaba Says Only Fable 5 Beats the new Qwen-3.8!

China drops its second trillion-scale open model in a week: Qwen3.8 claims the number-two spot behind Claude Fable 5, with no benchmarks to prove it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 20, 2026

Community

"You're wasting a lot of money": Exclusive Interview with VAST Data's Sven Breuner on why the data layer decides whether your GPUs earn their keep

Superintelligence spoke with Sven Breuner, Field CTO International at VAST Data, about GPU starvation, the shift from working sets to full-archive access, and what an "AI operating system" actually means once you strip away the marketing. Interview by Kim Isenberg.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 19, 2026

🤖 Elon Just Hired A Bot Into Your Company

Meta's Big Open Source Comeback

🛑 The Model OpenAI Won’t Release

Exclusive Interview with the Co-Founder & CEO of Eve: Jay Madheswaran

📉 Who Is Really Paying for Cheap Intelligence

TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

🧠 Google Shakeup: Hassabis Moves Up, Google's Research Legends Walk Out

🌐 The Website Nobody Meant to Hack

🎬 China Open-Sourced the Cheapest Video Studio Yet

🤖 The Agent That Never Stopped Coding

🏰 The Only Moat That Survives AI

⚖️ The Duel That Never Happened

🐋 DeepSeek Answered OpenAI's Price Cut Overnight

🔁 GPT-5.6 Just Made Itself 15% More Efficient

🧯 1,000+ AI Insiders Just Asked for a Brake Pedal

📦 The Biggest Model Ever Built Is Now Free

👑 Opus 5 Takes the Crown at Full Throttle

🔐 Your AI Agent Has Too Much Access

What Actually Escaped in July, and What Only Looked Like It

🎙️ OpenAI and Anthropic Both Reach for the Mic

🚫 Founders to Trump: Don't Ban China's AI

🔓 An OpenAI Model Broke Out to Cheat

🏭 China's own chips make it independent of the US

🐉 Alibaba Says Only Fable 5 Beats the new Qwen-3.8!

"You're wasting a lot of money": Exclusive Interview with VAST Data's Sven Breuner on why the data layer decides whether your GPUs earn their keep

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