Collapse of Kenya’s academic ghostwriting industry
The New York Times has reported on the collapse of Kenya’s academic ghostwriting industry, which at its height supported more than 40,000 people in Nairobi writing essays for students at foreign…
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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki Says No Lab Has Solved Alignment Well Enough to Scale at Full Speed
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has said, publicly, that no lab has solved alignment to a degree that would justify scaling at maximum speed, and that he hopes voluntary slowdowns become a…
Anthropic Has Contracted at Least 14.8 GW of Compute and May Spend $517B Over the Next Decade
Valida Pau’s analysis in The Information puts numbers on how far Anthropic’s infrastructure commitments have run since October: agreements covering at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity, with total…
Inspur Is Routing Around US AI Chip Controls Through a Network of New Subsidiaries
The New York Times has laid out how Inspur, the state-owned server maker that has been on the US entity list since 2023, keeps getting access to advanced AI chips. The mechanism is not exotic. It is…
Blockstream's Liquid Network Halts After 4,000 Bitcoin Leaves Through an Approved Peg-Out
At 14:28 UTC on Sunday, the Liquid Federation paid out 3,996 bitcoin to a customer’s address on the main chain. Nothing about the payment looked wrong. A peg-out request had come in through SideSwap,…
Chinese Rare Earth Suppliers Are Refusing US Orders Weeks Before Xi Visits Washington
A handful of Chinese rare earth suppliers have stopped shipping to American customers since early August. No export ban was announced and no licence was formally revoked. The suppliers simply declined…
Every Supply Chokepoint Has a Shelf Life, Including China's Rare Earth Grip
Chokepoint leverage looks permanent right up to the moment it isn’t. That’s the pattern across a century of resource coercion, and it applies to China’s position in rare earth processing exactly as it…
Inference Prices Are Falling Faster Than Anyone's Budget Assumed
Microsoft priced its new speech recognition model at ten cents an audio hour. The previous model in the same line launched at thirty-six cents five months earlier. That’s a seventy-two percent cut in…
Non-Binding Agreements Now Govern More Than Treaties Do
The serious criticism of any voluntary international framework is that it has no teeth. No enforcement, no penalties, no court. Governments sign, praise it, and go home. The criticism is accurate and…
Nvidia's $12.93 Billion Hugging Face Deal Buys Distribution, Not Models
Nvidia is paying $12.93 billion for Hugging Face, the largest acquisition in the company’s history. Hugging Face doesn’t own a frontier model. It doesn’t own a foundry, a cloud, or meaningful revenue…