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SpaceX Drops $60B on Coding While OpenAI Bleeds Billions

SpaceX Drops $60B on Coding While OpenAI Bleeds Billions

SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition signals that AI coding tools are now critical infrastructure—but federal regulators just discovered the model class has fundamental safety gaps in routine tasks, not just exotic attacks.
Brian Brown 16 Jun 2026
AI Search Chaos Reshapes Marketing While Russia Targets Sacred Ground

AI Search Chaos Reshapes Marketing While Russia Targets Sacred Ground

Meta's AI search mode and Microsoft's warning about AI hollowing out industries signal a genuine shift in how information gets discovered and work gets done—but the real story is the governance vacuum underneath. Eighty-five percent of IT teams claim to control AI agents while only 42% actually know
Brian Brown 15 Jun 2026
Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Tesla Moment

Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Tesla Moment

OpenAI is trapped in a behavioral consistency death spiral: every tuning adjustment to please one user segment alienates another, forcing reactive patches that create new inconsistencies. Meanwhile, the company's advertising data shows no performance hit from AI disclosure labels—removing the last e
Brian Brown 14 Jun 2026
Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Teslas

Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Teslas

A US-Iran deal announcement lands while Tehran denies the timeline and fuel prices spike. Meanwhile, the RTX 5090 is rewriting local LLM inference benchmarks, and the UK is intercepting Russian oil tankers in the English Channel.
Brian Brown 13 Jun 2026

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