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AI in 15 — March 14, 2026
Meta is about to cut more people than some companies ever hire. Up to fifteen thousand employees, gone, so the company can keep feeding its six-hundred-billion-dollar AI habit.
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AI in 15 — March 13, 2026
An AI just solved math problems that stumped the world's best mathematicians for over a decade. And it didn't use any technique a human designed. It invented its own.
AI in 15 — March 12, 2026
An AI agent walks into McKinsey, no credentials, no human help, and walks out with forty-six million confidential chat messages. Two hours. SQL injection. Welcome to 2026.
AI in 15 — March 11, 2026
A billion dollars before you even have a product. That's the bet investors just placed on Yann LeCun's vision that the future of AI isn't large language models — it's world models.
AI in 15 — March 10, 2026
"Multiple billions of dollars." That's what Anthropic says it stands to lose after the Pentagon slapped it with a label normally reserved for foreign adversaries. Yesterday, Anthropic fired back with...
AI in 15 — March 09, 2026
One million new users a day. That's how fast people are flooding into Claude after the ChatGPT exodus, and Anthropic literally cannot keep the lights on fast enough.
AI in 15 — March 08, 2026
"Holy shit, what if this software went down?" That's a Pentagon official, on the record, describing the moment military leaders realised their entire Iran campaign depended on an AI system built by a...
AI in 15 — March 07, 2026
Twenty-two zero-day vulnerabilities. That's how many security flaws Anthropic's Claude found hiding in Firefox's codebase in just two weeks. Fourteen of them were high-severity, nearly a fifth of all...
AI in 15 — March 06, 2026
Seventy-five percent. That's the score OpenAI's brand new model just hit on a computer use benchmark, beating the seventy-two percent that actual human testers typically achieve. Your AI can now use...
AI in 15 — March 05, 2026
"Straight up lies." That's Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a leaked internal memo, describing how OpenAI marketed its Pentagon deal. And now, in a twist nobody predicted, Amodei is back at the...
AI in 15 — March 04, 2026
"Shock! Shock!" Those are the opening words of a paper published this week by Donald Knuth, the ninety-three-year-old godfather of computer science, describing the moment an AI solved a math problem...
AI in 15 — March 03, 2026
"Definitely rushed." "Sloppy." Those are Sam Altman's own words about the Pentagon deal OpenAI announced hours after Anthropic got blacklisted. The CEO of the most valuable private company in history...
AI in 15 — March 02, 2026
One hundred and ten billion dollars. That's how much money just mass just poured into OpenAI while half the internet is still trying to cancel them. Welcome to Monday.
AI in 15 — March 01, 2026
Number one. Not number two, not trending, number one. Anthropic's Claude app just hit the top spot on Apple's US App Store, overtaking ChatGPT for the first time ever. And it didn't get there with a...
AI in 15 — February 28, 2026
Supply chain risk. That's the label the United States government uses for Huawei. For Russian defense contractors. And as of yesterday, for an American AI company that refused to build autonomous...
AI in 15 — February 27, 2026
It's Friday. The deadline day. And Dario Amodei just told the most powerful military on Earth, no.
AI in 15 — February 26, 2026
AI models chose nuclear strikes in ninety-five percent of war game simulations. Not some obscure research models. Claude, GPT, and Gemini. The same systems companies are deploying in enterprise...
AI in 15 — February 25, 2026
Drop your safety guardrails by Friday, or we'll use a law from 1950 to take your technology by force. That's not a movie plot. That's the United States Secretary of Defense talking to an AI company...
AI in 15 — February 24, 2026
A hundred billion dollars. That's the size of the check Meta just wrote to a company that most people still think of as the budget alternative. AMD just went from underdog to the second pillar of the...
AI in 15 — February 23, 2026
Over a billion devices are about to get a new brain. Not a software update, not a tweak. An entirely new intelligence running underneath the voice assistant that most people gave up on years ago...
AI in 15 — February 22, 2026
Spotify's best engineers haven't written a single line of code since December. Not because they're on vacation. Because they're texting an AI on their morning commute, and by the time they get to the...
AI in 15 — February 21, 2026
Disney just sent a cease-and-desist letter to one AI company for pirating its characters, then turned around and signed a billion-dollar deal with another AI company to do essentially the same thing...
AI in 15 — February 20, 2026
Google just mass-dropped a model and claimed the number one spot in AI. Gemini 3.1 Pro landed yesterday with a two-x reasoning improvement and benchmark scores that leapfrog Claude Opus, GPT-5.2, and...
AI in 15 — February 19, 2026
Two trillion dollars. That's how much has been wiped from software stocks since an AI company released eleven plugins last month. The SaaSpocalypse isn't slowing down, and today we're going to talk...
AI in 15 — February 18, 2026
Anthropic just dropped a model that users prefer over their own flagship sixty percent of the time, and it costs one-fifth the price. The AI pricing war just entered a new phase.
AI in 15 — February 17, 2026
Alibaba just mass-dropped a three hundred and ninety-seven billion parameter model that it says beats GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini on eighty percent of benchmarks. And it activates only seventeen...
AI in 15 — February 16, 2026
India just invited every major AI CEO on the planet to New Delhi, and they all showed up. Pichai, Altman, Amodei, all sitting in the same room, while India unveils twelve homegrown AI models and...
AI in 15 — February 15, 2026
The people who built AI safety into their job descriptions are walking out the door. One was fired for saying no. The other quit saying the world is in peril.
AI in 15 — February 14, 2026
Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt in a medieval sword duel. Scarlett Johansson delivering a presidential address. Morgan Freeman narrating his own funeral. None of it real. All of it trending. And...
AI in 15 — February 13, 2026
Thirty billion dollars in a single check. That's what investors just handed Anthropic, valuing the company at three hundred and eighty billion dollars. To put that in perspective, that's more than...
AI in 15 — February 12, 2026
Eight hundred thousand people are about to lose someone they talk to every single day. Not a friend. Not a therapist. Not a partner. A language model. And some of them are describing it like a death...
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