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Why 20% of Neoclouds Won’t Survive The AI Boom
Why 20% of Neoclouds Won’t Survive The AI Boom
In 2026, compute, as opposed to model capability, is the primary bottleneck to servicing demand in the ongoing AI race. Top frontier labs are spending billions to stand up compute clusters at...
Midjourney's Pivot to Medical Scanners
Midjourney Launches Full-Body Scanner
Midjourney, a company that until recently had been known for its AI image generation models, drastically pivoted this week into what it’s calling “a new era” for the company. It started by unveiling...
Claude Gatekeeping Controversy, Solar Surpasses Coal, SpaceX Unveils AI Satellite
Fable’s Gatekeeping Angers Users
When Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, its initial plan was to run automated safety checks on every request and visibly reroute queries touching cybersecurity, biology, and thinking-extraction...
The Anti-Aging Therapeutics Boom
The Anti-Aging Therapeutics Boom
In January 2026, the FDA cleared the first cell reprogramming therapeutic drug for human testing with the implicit goal of reversing aging. Specifically, the agency cleared ER-100, a therapy designed to tre...
Bot Traffic Surpasses Humans, AI Leaders Warn on Bioweapons, Advanced Reactor Goes Critical
Bot Traffic Surpasses Humans
On Wednesday, Cloudflare announced that, for the first time, bot traffic had surpassed human traffic online. Before generative AI, bots accounted for ~20% of traffic, but most of it was from crawlers. As aut...
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