Mark Zuckerberg is committing $135B to a radically different AI strategy, one that positions Meta as the distributor of superintelligence to individuals, not enterprises. Mark Zuckerberg published his case for personal superintelligence on Monday and, the same morning, shipped the thing that makes the case affordable. In The Future is for Everyone, dated 10 August, he…
The artificial intelligence (AI) race intensified this week as OpenAI broadened access to its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model while semiconductor giant AMD strengthened its AI infrastructure ambitions through the acquisition of AI startup Taalas. OpenAI’s latest update focuses on improving the user experience inside ChatGPT, while AMD’s move is aimed at accelerating AI inference performance,…
A $300 metal doughnut is a ridiculous object on which to wager the future of computing. That’s why Silicon Valley may be serious about it. OpenAI’s first consumer device, developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, will reportedly resemble a doughnut-shaped hockey puck small enough to carry around the house in one hand. It…
Safe Superintelligence might be the most interesting black box in Silicon Valley. The AI laboratory founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has no public model, no consumer app, no meaningful revenue and almost no disclosed research. Its website still reads more like a weird pledge than a business plan: SSI exists with “one…
Hong Kong, China, August 6th, 2026, Chainwire Mixin Safe, a multisignature self-custody product developed by Mixin, enables users to manage their Owner Key with a hardware wallet and combines MPC and timelock mechanisms in a layered security architecture. Mixin highlighted how the recently disclosed COLDCARD random number generation issue has renewed industry attention on the…
Two personnel announcements landed within days of each other this week. Viewed separately, they look like the usual churn of Silicon Valley’s executive class. Viewed together, they reveal where the artificial-intelligence race is heading next. At Google, Demis Hassabis is surrendering day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to become chair of the division and chief scientist…
The technology industry has always had a slightly dysfunctional relationship with hype. Founders insist they are independent thinkers, venture capitalists claim they can see around corners, and then everyone quietly updates their pitch decks when the latest narrative begins attracting money. A chart produced by Sequoia Capital partner Konstantine Buhler, working with Sequoia intern Oliver Cho,…
A new publication from the Meaning Alignment Institute argues the models get all the scrutiny while courts, elections and regulators are left untouched. Its founders want the redesign started now, on a $65,000 budget. The complaint that animates Pax Machina fits in a sentence: almost all the attention on powerful AI goes to aligning or regulating the…
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.…