Nvidia is giving OpenAI $100 billion so OpenAI can buy Nvidia’s chips. It’s not illegal. It’s not hidden. But it creates a fundamental problem: we can’t tell what real demand for AI actually is because much of the spending is circular — companies funding their own customers to maintain the appearance of booming sales. Sound familiar? It should.

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Google says it’s prioritizing original, authoritative content in AI Overviews. In reality, they’re optimizing for their product while inevitable creating collateral damage. Legitimate creators will get caught in the crossfire.

The plateau in AI-generated content might look like good news, but it masks a darker truth: we’ve stopped trusting the internet entirely. Even 10-year-old videos are flagged as AI. Slop detection won’t fix what’s really broken.

Anthropic’s Haiku 4.5 looks like a cost-cutting move, but it’s actually democratizing access to capable AI and preventing the kind of monopolies that concentrate power in the hands of the wealthy. And yes, it’s also genius business strategy.

Google is rolling out AI‑generated previews in Discover and testing a sports “What’s new” button that serves curated updates. While the features save time for users, the piece warns that such AI summaries could divert traffic from the publishers who create the original stories.