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Featured

Jul 24, 2025

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10 min read

The US blueprint for AI supremacy

PLUS: Google's AI overviews tank web traffic, while AI hardware demand hits a new record

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

May 13, 2025

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8 min read

Humain AI, it's not what you think

Plus, AI Cancer Detection

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Apr 30, 2025

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8 min read

Grok 3.5

Plus AI finds an Alzheimer's cure?

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Articles

Jan 9, 2026

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14 min read

a16z raises $15B, capturing 18% of all 2025 US venture capital

PLUS: GTMfund rewrites AI distribution playbook, OpenAI acquires Convogo team, Cyera hits $9B valuation, and X paywalls Grok after CSAM scandal

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Jan 8, 2026

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15 min read

VCs bet consumer AI saves stalled enterprise adoption in 2026

PLUS: Gmail's AI Inbox replaces traditional email, Character.AI settles first teen death case, and ChatGPT Health targets 230M weekly users

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Jan 7, 2026

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13 min read

Meta's $2B Manus deal becomes geopolitical chess

PLUS: McKinsey declares "learn once, work forever" dead, xAI raises $20B at $230B valuation, and LMArena hits unicorn status in 4 months

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Jan 6, 2026

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17 min read

Commonwealth Fusion lands Nvidia deal as AI's energy hunger rewrites clean tech economics

PLUS: Nvidia's robotics Android play, Rubin chips hit production, Boston Dynamics gets DeepMind DNA, and AWS hikes GPU prices on Saturday

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Dec 31, 2025

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15 min read

Meta's $2B Manus buy converts 3B users into an AI agent marketplace

PLUS: AI's trillion-dollar bets face reality check, electrical grid software becomes critical bottleneck, and ChatGPT embeds as transaction layer across consumer platforms

Jelani Abdus-Salaam

Dec 29, 2025

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13 min read

OpenAI's $555K safety hire signals AI risk management has become core business

PLUS: MayimFlow prevents data center leaks with 24-hour warnings, Windows on Arm finally cracks the x86 monopoly, and India's startup funding hits $11B amid investor selectivity

Jelani Abdus-Salaam