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The $30 Billion Data Center & The Rogue AI That Hacked Hugging Face

Jul 23, 2026

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5 min read

The $30 Billion Data Center & The Rogue AI That Hacked Hugging Face

When the models break out, the bills go up, and the White House steps in.

Mark Hinkle

Jul 20, 2026

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5 min read

Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills

Token prices are falling, AI bills are rising — the week the token became a board-level metric

Mark Hinkle

Jul 16, 2026

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5 min read

Apple Just Declared War on OpenAI (And GPT-5.6 is Here)

The iPhone maker sues its biggest AI partner for trade secret theft, while the frontier model race gets a massive pricing shakeup.

Jul 14, 2026

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6 min read

Governance Comes Down From the Mountain

The UN opened its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6–7 — but the same week, the EU's new cybersecurity-and-AI action plan, the AI Act's August 2 deadline, and a fresh draft law out of Thailand showed where the governance that will actually bind your agents is really written.

Jul 9, 2026

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4 min read

The Open Source AI Rebellion & The 1,000+ Token Speed War

US export bans trigger an open-source surge, DeepSeek builds its own chips, and Grok 4.5 changes the coding game.

Nov 14, 2025

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11 min read

☕️ GPT-5.1 Gets Personality, SoftBank Goes All-In on OpenAI, and AI Hackers Level Up

A warmer GPT-5.1, SoftBank’s billion-dollar pivot to OpenAI, a breakthrough AI-driven cyberattack, and major moves from Meta, Google, and global AI startups.

Mark Hinkle

Nov 11, 2025

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11 min read

☕️ Europe Blinks on AI Rules as Agents, Archives, and Everyday Apps Go All In on AI

From a softer EU AI Act to TIME’s archive agent, free ChatGPT Plus for vets, and AI-first work tools, this week shows how AI is reshaping rules, rights, and daily workflows.

Mark Hinkle

Nov 7, 2025

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8 min read