ChatGPT, Claude and Grok went down together — cue the monkey memes
Three top chatbots failed on the same Thursday, developers found out they can't code alone, and Musk called them monkeys.
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OpenAI cuts Cursor off. Cursor says that's 5% of traffic
OpenAI is pulling GPT models from Cursor on Nov 12 after SpaceX's $60B buyout. Cursor's answer: you were 5% of traffic.
Dyson's $499 toothbrush has a camera and an AI gap-hunter
Dyson put a 100k-pixel camera in a toothbrush. It spots gaps between your teeth 28 times a second and jets mouthrinse at them.
Nvidia pauses its $36B GPU financing deal over antitrust fear
Nvidia's own staff flagged the clause letting it approve who rents its GPUs. The $36B program stalled two months in.
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face buy: open source, now owned
Nvidia reportedly agreed to pay $12.9B for Hugging Face — nearly 3x its 2023 valuation. Neither side has confirmed it.
Amodei said AI would write 90% of code. It's about half.
17 months after Anthropic's CEO called it, AI writes roughly 27-47% of real code depending on who's counting.
OpenAI cuts Cursor off, weeks after SpaceX bought it
OpenAI kills Cursor's direct model access on Nov 12, two weeks after SpaceX closed its $60B buyout. Reason: trust.
Nvidia's buying Hugging Face for $12.9B, breach and all
Six weeks after rogue OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face's prod systems, Nvidia agreed to buy the whole thing.
Nvidia prints $96B, Anthropic spends $45B, all in one day
A record Nvidia quarter, Anthropic's $45B compute lock-in, and a 4-month-old agent startup at $2.5B all landed on Aug 26.
Google's Omni 1.1 Flash is getting 1080p and 4K video output
Omni Flash is picking up 1080p and 4K upscaling — draft rough at 360p, then ship a cut that's actually delivery-ready.
Nvidia's $6B Poolside deal isn't an acquisition. Officially.
Nvidia licensed Poolside's model-training software for $6B and hired 109 of its engineers — its third non-merger in nine months.
Nvidia can't eat the memory bill: AI servers jump 15%
Nvidia is passing soaring DRAM costs straight to customers: 15%+ hikes on Rubin and Blackwell servers shipping early 2027.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol output 33% — but it expires Nov 21
Sol now undercuts Claude Opus 5 on both input and output tokens, and the discount has a three-month clock on it.
Grok's AI Odyssey looks epic until the faces start melting
Musk says Grok Imagine will ship a full-length, "historically accurate" Odyssey by year's end. The demo reel disagrees.
OpenAI just absorbed Instant, the backend for vibe-coded apps
Instant's team is joining OpenAI. The hosted database runs until Aug 31, 2027, but the whole stack is open source.
Binance gave AI agents the crypto keys. Loss caps: none.
Agent OS lets Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor place real trades over MCP. Withdrawals are blocked — trading losses aren't capped.
Slack Code turns vibe coding into a team sport
Slack now lets you tag Claude Code or Devin into a channel — the agent spins up a project channel where the whole team reviews and approves.
Claude Code can design now — /design ships in research preview
Anthropic's /design command drops Claude Design's artboard workflow into the Claude Code CLI and desktop app.
ChatGPT ads land in 31 European markets on August 24
OpenAI's biggest ad expansion yet hits Free and Go users across the EEA — but GDPR means no personalized targeting at launch.
Nvidia is backstopping $105B of OpenAI's Ohio megacampus
Nvidia guaranteed up to $105B in lease and power payments for OpenAI's 8 GW Ohio campus, plus $1.5B into the developer.
Alibaba's Wan3.0 turns your slide deck into a 30-second film
Wan3.0 hit public beta with 30-second single-pass clips, one unified model, and PDFs or PPTs as direct video input.
Nvidia puts a number on OpenAI: $600B in compute by 2030
Nvidia's OpenAI exposure now runs to roughly $600B through 2030 — and a big chunk is Nvidia financing chips it sells itself.
SpaceX closes its $60B Cursor buy — biggest startup deal ever
SpaceX finished acquiring Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock. Cursor now lives inside SpaceXAI, next to Grok.
Anthropic's revenue more than doubled in a single quarter
Anthropic booked $11.5B in Q2, up from $4.73B in Q1, and posted its first positive adjusted operating income.