This is an interesting article that sums up some of what we already know—but summarizes it again: OpenAIs cost-cutting with GPT-5. When you consider that ChatGPT is used by 700 million weekly active users, of whom only 3% are paid users, it reveals the enormous scale and, at the
INVESTMENT
-
AI Model Development Increasingly Difficult for Highly Capitalized Companies
By
–
Some signs that catching up in the AI model space is rapidly becoming challenging for even the most highly capitalized companies.
-
AI Investment Risk: 25% CAGR Growth with Binary Outcomes
By
–
AI is growing at 25%+ CAGR
Generational wealth is being built in AI. If you invest in AI firms in 2025: you will either build massive wealth or you will wipe out 90% of your capital. Many are comparing the current AI revolution (2025) to DotCom bubble (early 2000s) – VCs -
Anthropic Acquires Humanloop Team to Strengthen AI Safety
By
–
Anthropic just acquired the co-founders and most of the team of Humanloop, the startup behind Hooli, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 14 août 2025
The move marks a major push from Anthropic to strengthen its AI safety strategypic.twitter.com/Q61Op25kEyAnthropic just acquired the co-founders and most of the team of Humanloop, the startup behind Hooli, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability The move marks a major push from Anthropic to strengthen its AI safety strategy
-
xAI Co-founder Igor Babuschkin Launches AI Safety Investment Venture
By
–
xAI's co-founder, Igor Babuschkin, announced his departure from the company He is now starting Babuschkin Ventures to support AI safety research and invest in AI startups that “advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe."
-
Government Support: DeepSeek’s Potential Dominance or Downfall?
By
–
I remember people were saying that DeepSeek getting support from the government means that they will dominate. I was kind of fearing it might be the end of DeepSeek.
-
Time-Series Forecasting as Curve-Fitting: Beware False Prophets
By
–
Most time-series forecasting is largely just curve‑fitting dressed up as insight. Beware false "prophets", especially in financial market forecasting! https://
valeman.medium.com/the-snake-oil-
of-applying-facebook-prophet-to-financial-time-series-0a7e2814a614
… -
Data Centers: The Future of AI and Infrastructure Impact
By
–
Are Data Centers the Future of #AI? See this discussion: https://
thedailyupside.com/etf/thematics-
sectors/the-future-of-ai-etfs-may-be-data-centers/
… and AI-crunching data centers are popping up in many places, with promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks. Server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics: https://
andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/thirsty-f
or-power-and-water-ai-crunching-data-centers-sprout-across-the-west/
… -
Increasing Timeout Duration Comes with Additional Runtime Costs
By
–
Looks like you can increase that timeout to four hours, but you have to pay for the time
they stay running -
Perplexity AI bids $34.5B for Google Chrome browser
By
–
Perplexity AI, valued at $18B, just dropped a bombshell: an unsolicited $34.5B all-cash bid to buy Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, the browser used by 3B+ users. They promise to keep Chromium open source, invest $3B in 2 years, and even keep Google as the default search