The Frontier
Ben Thompson published a 10,000-word interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Friday morning, recorded before the Astra launch and covering everything from Brockman's acting career in North Dakota to the company's place on the AI value chain. It is, by a comfortable margin,
The Guardrails
Ukraine has become the world's most productive AI training ground, and its drone footage is being sold to fund the war effort. A new MIT Technology Review investigation finds that the country is licensing combat data — videos, telemetry, controller inputs — to commercial AI labs at a scale no
The Stack
If you've ever wondered why an LLM feels slow to type out long answers — or why Nvidia's engineers spent a September 2026 blog post telling model designers how many attention groups to use — the answer is a technique called speculative decoding. Speculative decoding is an inference
The Stack
Lenovo unveiled the first laptops built on Nvidia's RTX Spark platform at IFA 2026 in Berlin, and a Chinese robotics lab showed how to keep training a policy while the robot is still working — two stories that point at the same shift: AI is moving off the cloud
The Arena
Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue sat down together on CNBC's Squawk Box the morning after the deal, and the joint interview answered the questions the announcement blog post did not: what the price was set against, whether the talent is being paid to stay, and how Nvidia plans
The Arena
Autonomy, trade policy, and a détente in Washington all moved on the same day. Here's what landed. Tesla said Thursday it is offering Cybercab rides in "limited areas of Austin, Texas" — the first time the two-seater with no steering wheel and no pedals has carried
The Everyday
Two very different bets on where the interface goes next: Ray Kurzweil has joined a startup trying to skip the skull entirely, and Lenovo just shipped a laptop that keeps frontier-scale models off the cloud. Ray Kurzweil is joining Subsense, a Silicon Valley startup developing a non-surgical brain-
The Guardrails
The US government has picked a side in the defining copyright fight of the AI era, Tesla finally put its steering-wheel-less Cybercab on the road — quietly — and Oura's IPO filing revealed just how much physiological data one ring company has banked. The Justice Department filed a
The Guardrails
New York City just drew the hardest line any American school system has drawn on generative AI, UiPath proved the automation business still grows — and still can't convince the market — and Nvidia quietly turned a hardware constraint into a model design rule. New York City has imposed a
The Stack
OpenAI's Daybreak models now sit inside two very different products that shipped within hours of each other. Cloudflare is putting them to work patching vulnerabilities at the network edge; Proofpoint is using them to run investigations. Neither one is allowed to act alone. Cloudflare launched Vulnerability Discovery and
The Arena
The AI buildout's capital markets didn't slow down after hours on Thursday: an AI data center operator quietly tripled its valuation, a smart ring maker filed to go public with real profits, and an autonomous trucking company took a third swing at a listing. Crusoe has
The Frontier
Thursday's launch rhetoric met its first independent scoreboard, and the scoreboard is more interested in price tags. Also: Tesla quietly opened a door for businesses that want to buy and run Cybercabs themselves. Artificial Analysis put GPT-6 Astra at 61 points on its Intelligence Index — five behind