AI Industry: Big Tech, Policy & Chips

Big Tech, policy, chips and robots

Suited man stands over a glowing circuit board in a dark courtroom as a hand signs an xAI v. OpenAI document beside it.

musk admits xai trained grok on openai models in court

Addy Crezee 1 May 2026 2 min read

Hooded builder holds a glowing RTX 5090 GPU and a Mac Studio over a motherboard, graffiti reads "Builder Hustle" and "Apple"

mac studio vs rtx 5090: the $5k local ai build decision

Nick Trenkler 30 Apr 2026 1 min read

Worker in worn overalls operates an industrial press stamping glowing AI-labeled discs in a dark workshop

chinese labs outship us 24 to 18 in the 2026 model race

Nick Trenkler 30 Apr 2026 1 min read

Man in glasses sits under a spotlight before a graffitied mural of a glowing figure with a neural-network head and outstretched arms.

demis hassabis, ceo of google deepmind, gave an interview about agi

Nick Trenkler 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

musk vs. altman. the full prehistory

Nick Trenkler 28 Apr 2026 6 min read

Sam Altman on a throne holding a glowing OpenAI phone, surrounded by broken iPhones, graffiti wall behind him

why would openai build its own smartphone?

Nick Trenkler 27 Apr 2026 3 min read

Chinese military officer slams a red VOID stamp onto a shattering digital contract under flags in a graffitied state hall.

chinese government makes its first move in the ai war against the usa

Addy Crezee 27 Apr 2026 1 min read

Young runner sprints past a hunched figure at a Meta-tagged starting line as glowing 54%, 73%, and 94% scorecards trail behind.

a phone company beats a tech giant in ai with 12x less investment

Nick Trenkler 25 Apr 2026 1 min read

Man in coveralls welds a server rack labeled Colossus between rows of glowing green data center cabinets in a graffitied hall.

Why Big Tech won't fund xAI: no cloud leverage to sell

Nick Trenkler 24 Apr 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figure in a suit eating from a glowing bowl of coins at a dark table — symbolizing China's growing capture of the AI token market.

china is eating america’s ai market

Nick Trenkler 24 Apr 2026 2 min read

altThree Anthropic men labeled "4.5", "4.6", "4.7" wait under an "OPENROUTER" neon sign — Claude opens to third-party inference.

Anthropic Opens Claude Desktop to OpenRouter: Models or GPUs?

Nick Trenkler 23 Apr 2026 1 min read

Suited Mythos-badge man over "LEAK REPORT" and "CAMPAIGN BRIEF" papers under a spotlight — leak as marketing play.

mythos leak: just marketing?

Nick Trenkler 22 Apr 2026 1 min read

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