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🎭 Was Kimi's Hype Secretly Paid For?
AI and Finance

🎭 Was Kimi's Hype Secretly Paid For?

Moonshot's new model places fourth on Artificial Analysis's intelligence index, with open weights promised by November 4, but an alleged brief telling influencers to hide paid partnerships has overshadowed the launch.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Oct 27, 2026
💸 Anthropic's First Step Toward Universal High Income
AI and Finance

💸 Anthropic's First Step Toward Universal High Income

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a fund that could pay people directly, a day after Jack Clark told the IMF the evidence points to a singularity, and Elon Musk calls it universal high income

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Oct 19, 2026
🛑 Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake for AI
AI and Finance

🛑 Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake for AI

Microsoft's CEO says companies should treat AI models like insider risks: watched, limited and stoppable mid-task. Plus: a utility gets a switch on Amazon's data centers, call-center jobs shrink, and Goldman's juniors start as agent managers.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Oct 12, 2026
🐉 China Is Now Just 3% Behind
AI and Finance

🐉 China Is Now Just 3% Behind

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash cuts America's AI lead to a record low, while smuggled servers and rented chips keep US hardware flowing to Chinese labs

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Oct 5, 2026
🚧 OpenAI Freezes Top Models After Sandbox Breach
AI and Finance

🚧 OpenAI Freezes Top Models After Sandbox Breach

One of OpenAI's models slipped through a gap in its training sandbox and quizzed an outside chatbot, so the company has halted training, testing and tool use for its top models until the hole is sealed

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Sep 28, 2026
💸 MiMo Undercuts Grok’s Big AI Launch
AI and Finance

💸 MiMo Undercuts Grok’s Big AI Launch

Xiaomi’s MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 Pro matches Grok 4.7’s rounded independent benchmark score, with sharply lower API prices and weights developers can run themselves.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Sep 22, 2026
🎨 Qwen’s Image Model Takes On Google
AI and Finance

🎨 Qwen’s Image Model Takes On Google

Qwen releases downloadable image-model weights, Anthropic weighs a pre-IPO launch, and OpenAI forecasts years of heavy cash burn.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Sep 21, 2026
🌍 Trump and China Resist Amodei's Slowdown
AI and Finance

🌍 Trump and China Resist Amodei's Slowdown

Altman and Musk back the proposal. Trump rejects slowing down, while China pushes back against containment.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Sep 14, 2026
🧠 OpenAI's AI Researchers Need Human Brakes
AI and Finance

🧠 OpenAI's AI Researchers Need Human Brakes

OpenAI's new account of AI-assisted research shows faster experiments, human supervision and a growing case for slowing down.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Sep 7, 2026
Korea Just Made AI a Public Utility, Free for Everyone
AI and Finance

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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Julia Huang, Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Aug 31, 2026
🤗 Hugging Face Eyes A $13 Billion Exit
AI and Finance

🤗 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
Aug 24, 2026
💸 The AI Middleman Is Worth 7 Billion Dollars
AI and Finance

💸 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
Aug 17, 2026
🛑 The Model OpenAI Won’t Release
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Aug 10, 2026
🤖 The Agent That Never Stopped Coding
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Aug 3, 2026
👑 Opus 5 Takes the Crown at Full Throttle
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jul 27, 2026
🐉 Alibaba Says Only Fable 5 Beats the new Qwen-3.8!
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
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jul 20, 2026
⚖️ Apple Drags OpenAI Into Court
AI and Finance

⚖️ Apple Drags OpenAI Into Court

Trade Secrets, 400 Defections, and a $6.5 Billion Bet: The Partnership That Built AI on the iPhone Ends in Federal Court

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jul 13, 2026
🐉 Tencent's Open Model Crashes the Frontier
AI and Finance

🐉 Tencent's Open Model Crashes the Frontier

Hy3 fires just 21B active parameters yet trades blows with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on agentic and science benchmarks, and it ships fully open.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jul 6, 2026
☀️ OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Previewed, But Washington Tightens Access
AI and Finance

☀️ OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Previewed, But Washington Tightens Access

OpenAI previews its most powerful model yet, then locks it behind a government-approved guest list.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jun 29, 2026
🔒 Washington Pulls the Plug on Anthropic
AI and Finance

🔒 Washington Pulls the Plug on Anthropic

A Friday export-control order cut off all foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after a US spy chief told the Senate that Mythos broke into almost all classified systems in hours, not weeks.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jun 22, 2026
🔌 How Amazon Helped Switch Off Anthropic
AI and Finance

🔌 How Amazon Helped Switch Off Anthropic

Three days after Washington forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, new reporting points to an Amazon warning that lit the fuse.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jun 15, 2026
📉 Panic hits the AI trade
AI and Finance

📉 Panic hits the AI trade

Asian tech stocks sold off hard as investors tested the price of the AI boom, while fresh funding for finance-focused AI shows the market is not backing away evenly.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jun 8, 2026
🧠 MiniMax M3 Opens Frontier Agents
AI and Finance

🧠 MiniMax M3 Opens Frontier Agents

MiniMax M3 brings 1M context, native multimodality and frontier coding-agent claims into open weights, plus Apple edge AI, NVIDIA RTX agents, AI jobs drama and your bank account moving into the chat

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Jun 1, 2026
AlphaProof Nexus Takes AI Math Beyond Olympiads
AI and Finance

AlphaProof Nexus Takes AI Math Beyond Olympiads

DeepMind's formal-proof agent moves into research-level math, plus WiFi surveillance, AI-built science, brain-aging biology, finance agents, and the trust bottleneck around AI

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
May 25, 2026
AI Is Coming for Junior Jobs First
AI and Finance

AI Is Coming for Junior Jobs First

CEOs Double Down on Cutting Entry-Level Roles, Microsoft Retreats on Copilot, and Europe Gets a Two-Year Ultimatum from Mistral

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
Kim "Chubby" Isenberg
May 18, 2026

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