Vendor economics shifting from capex sale to recurring share


Nvidia moves to revenue-sharing with AI clouds — Nvidia will take a cut of some customers’ cloud revenues rather than selling hardware outright, while Meta plans a cloud business selling excess compute. Vendor economics shifting from capex sale to recurring share — directly relevant to the GaaS thesis. Semiconductor Engineering Korea’s $1.3T chip gamble — Samsung and SK Hynix outlined roughly $1.3 trillion in decade-long Korean fab and AI data centre investment, tied into a single state industrial plan. The largest sovereign concentration bet of the AI cycle. Semiconductor Engineering Continue reading Vendor economics shifting from capex sale to recurring share

Are SpaceX and Tesla Hurtling Toward a Merger?


Summarize #tesla #spacex #musk There’s growing speculation that Elon Musk will combine his two biggest companies. By Sana Pashankar, Carmen Arroyo, Dana Hull, Kara Carlson, Liana Baker, and Jordan Fitzgerald July 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT Elon Musk and the Tesla fleet on the SpaceX Starship.Photo Illustration: Joel Arbaje/Bloomberg A decade ago, Elon Musk saw little reason for SpaceX and Tesla Inc. to merge, saying that the ties between the two companies were “really quite tenuous.” Fast forward to 2026 and the question seems to be when, rather than if, a combination will happen. Longtime SpaceX and Tesla investors … Continue reading Are SpaceX and Tesla Hurtling Toward a Merger?

8 principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well‑being


Summarize Published: June 29, 2026 1.31pm BST AI is a factor in human well-being, whether harmful or helpful. Artificial intelligence is reshaping relationships by providing conversation and companionship, and reshaping how people work. For children, it is making toys interactive and data-driven, and it is mechanizing and perhaps dehumanizing healthcare. The speed and magnitude of these transformations is breathtaking. Effective leadership of the development, deployment and monitoring of AI requires addressing risks to people and the environment. It also calls for ensuring equity – fair access to AI’s benefits and fair mitigation of potential harm. Pope Leo XIV set this … Continue reading 8 principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well‑being

There’s Been a Subtle Shift in the AI Zeitgeist


Summarize Investor enthusiasm is rebalancing. By Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway June 26, 2026 at 12:05 PM EDT Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting with us, check out the Odd Lots Discord, where you can hang out and talk with … Continue reading There’s Been a Subtle Shift in the AI Zeitgeist

Artificial intelligence in an age of rivalry, risk, and power.


An important new book on the topic which analyses the relationship beyond technology Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He is the author or editor of several books, including American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (2018), Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (2016), What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman … Continue reading Artificial intelligence in an age of rivalry, risk, and power.

Challengers gain ground as chip market heats up


Challengers gain ground as chip market heats up THE NEWS Rising chip demand is boosting secondary players in the semiconductor industry. TSMC, the world’s biggest manufacturer, is at production capacity, and Samsung has seen a surge in customers: BYD and Google are both talking to the South Korean company. Samsung’s chips lag behind TSMC’s in manufacturing quality, but needs must, one executive told Nikkei. TSMC, Intel, and Samsung are the only chipmakers currently able to offer cutting-edge production at scale. Meanwhile, Google is looking to increase its slice of the AI chip design market, a sector that Nvidia had almost … Continue reading Challengers gain ground as chip market heats up

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for Wider Use


 Summarize ​ By Josh Wingrove and Rachel Metz June 26, 2026 at 7:02 PM EDT The Anthropic logo on a smartphone.Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Anthropic PBC won US approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving Trump administration concerns about the technology’s potential threats to national security. “Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnickwrote to the company’s chief compute officer in a letter seen by Bloomberg News. “These efforts have yielded significant progress,” he wrote, saying that the model could be released to “certain trusted partners.” The … Continue reading Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for Wider Use

US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to ‘trusted partners’


 Summarize ​ Chris ThomasJune 26, 20266:37 PM EDTUpdated 2 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Claude Mythos 5 AI model to some “trusted partners,” according to a Commerce Department letter seen ‌by Reuters. The action comes two weeks after the government ordered the AI firm to suspend access to some of its models, due to fears they could be deployed by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern. Learn about the latest breakthroughs in AI and tech with the Reuters Artificial Intelligencer newsletter. Sign up here. More than 100 companies … Continue reading US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to ‘trusted partners’

TechCrunch background on Mythos/ Fable


Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it’s doing it with guardrails.  On Tuesday, the AI firm launched Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model. Anthropic says Fable 5 excels at software engineering, knowledge work, and vision, but it comes with hard safety limits. In high-risk areas like cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and distillation, the model blocks responses and falls back to Claude Opus 4.8. Launched as a preview in April, Mythos was initially limited to a handful of partners due to cybersecurity concerns. Last week, Anthropic expanded … Continue reading TechCrunch background on Mythos/ Fable

NSA chief says Mythos breached ‘almost all’ classified systems in hours


NSA chief says Mythos breached ‘almost all’ classified systems in hoursCivilisational inflection note: This is the moment the frontier-AI cyber-offence question stopped being theoretical for a state actor.The Economist reported that Senator Mark Warner said Gen. Joshua Rudd (NSA / Cyber Command) told him Anthropic’s Mythos, in a red-team exercise on 11 June, broke into nearly all NSA classified systems — in hours, not weeks.New today: The disclosure is circulating widely this weekend and recasts the 12 June export-control shutdown of Fable 5 / Mythos 5 as being about autonomous offensive capability as a whole, not a narrow API jailbreak.Why … Continue reading NSA chief says Mythos breached ‘almost all’ classified systems in hours