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Mark Zuckerberg Used Meta Employees to Train Its AI — Then Fired 8,000 of Them. The Leaked Audio That Is Defining the Ethics Debate of the AI Era

Mark Zuckerberg Used Meta Employees to Train Its AI — Then Fired 8,000 of Them. The Leaked Audio That Is Defining the Ethics Debate of the AI Era

Oliver Grant
May 24, 2026

Meta Zuckerberg employee AI training surveillance is the corporate ethics story of 2026 — and it arrived not through a...

Jack Clark at Oxford: Nobel Discovery in 12 Months, AI Recursive Self-Improvement by 2028 and a Non-Zero Chance AI Could Kill Everyone — Anthropic’s Real Internal View of the Next Three Years

Jack Clark at Oxford: Nobel Discovery in 12 Months, AI Recursive Self-Improvement by 2028 and a Non-Zero Chance AI Could Kill Everyone — Anthropic’s Real Internal View of the Next Three Years

Oliver Grant
May 24, 2026

Jack Clark’s Oxford lecture is the most consequential public statement made by a sitting frontier AI company executive in 2026...

An OpenAI Model Just Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Conjecture — What It Did, How It Did It and Why It Changes Everything About AI and Science

An OpenAI Model Just Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Conjecture — What It Did, How It Did It and Why It Changes Everything About AI and Science

Oliver Grant
May 24, 2026

OpenAI AI solving the Erdos unit distance conjecture is the most significant scientific achievement by an artificial intelligence system in...

OpenAI Codex Hits 4 Million Weekly Users and Passes $1 Billion in ARR — The First AI Coding Agent to Reach That Scale and Why It Matters for the IPO

OpenAI Codex Hits 4 Million Weekly Users and Passes $1 Billion in ARR — The First AI Coding Agent to Reach That Scale and Why It Matters for the IPO

Oliver Grant
May 23, 2026

OpenAI Codex has 4 million weekly active users and is generating just over $1 billion in annualised recurring revenue —...

What Comes After Claude Opus 4.7 — Karpathy’s Team, GB200 Compute and the Next Frontier Model From Anthropic

What Comes After Claude Opus 4.7 — Karpathy’s Team, GB200 Compute and the Next Frontier Model From Anthropic

Oliver Grant
May 23, 2026

Claude 5 — or whatever Anthropic chooses to call the next generation of its Claude model family — is being...

Microsoft AI Hits $37 Billion ARR Growing at 123% — Copilot Passes 20 Million Seats and the M365 E7 Launch Changes Enterprise AI Economics

Microsoft AI Hits $37 Billion ARR Growing at 123% — Copilot Passes 20 Million Seats and the M365 E7 Launch Changes Enterprise AI Economics

Oliver Grant
May 23, 2026

Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reached $37 billion annually in Q3 fiscal 2026, growing at 123 percent year-over-year — the...

GPT-5.6 Is Coming — Codex Log Traces, Internal Codenames, and 80-Plus Percent Polymarket Odds Point to an OpenAI Launch Before June 30

GPT-5.6 Is Coming — Codex Log Traces, Internal Codenames, and 80-Plus Percent Polymarket Odds Point to an OpenAI Launch Before June 30

Oliver Grant
May 23, 2026

GPT-5.6 has not been officially announced as of May 23, 2026 — OpenAI has made no public statement about a...

Trump Cancels White House AI Executive Order at the Last Minute — Musk, Zuckerberg and Sacks Lobbied Against It Hours Before the Signing Ceremony

Trump Cancels White House AI Executive Order at the Last Minute — Musk, Zuckerberg and Sacks Lobbied Against It Hours Before the Signing Ceremony

Oliver Grant
May 23, 2026

Trump’s cancelled AI executive order is the biggest AI policy story of 2026, and it unfolded with a speed and...

Chinese AI Models Hit 60% of OpenRouter Usage in Two Years — And CNBC’s Pricing Investigation Reveals Why That Number Could Derail $800 Billion IPO Valuations

Chinese AI Models Hit 60% of OpenRouter Usage in Two Years — And CNBC’s Pricing Investigation Reveals Why That Number Could Derail $800 Billion IPO Valuations

Oliver Grant
May 22, 2026

Chinese AI models now account for more than 60 percent of all usage on OpenRouter — the world’s most widely...

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic — The Hire That Signals Where the Frontier of AI Research Is Actually Going

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic — The Hire That Signals Where the Frontier of AI Research Is Actually Going

Oliver Grant
May 22, 2026

Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic is the most significant AI talent story of 2026 — and it is significant not just...

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