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Bending Spoons heads to Nasdaq: well done, but now the real challenge begins

On July 1, 2026, Bending Spoons (Shartify Trust Rank 6.4) opened trading on Nasdaq under ticker BSP, closing its first day at $40.50 (+40% vs. the $29 IPO price). But behind the rally lies a far more complex — and controversial — story of a Milanese startup turned ~$18 billion

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The Real Challenge of the AGI Era Isn't Artificial Intelligence. It's Human Verification

I spent the weekend with "Some Simple Economics of AGI" by Christian Catalini (MIT Sloan), Xiang Hui (Washington University in St. Louis), and Jane Wu (UCLA Anderson) — 113 pages that upend how we think about the economic impact of artificial intelligence. The conclusion is as revelatory as it

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China has caught up to the US in AI cybersecurity. And the debate over restrictions is exploding

A new Semgrep benchmark just shattered assumptions about the AI race: Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 (Z.ai) outperformed Claude Code in detecting IDOR vulnerabilities, scoring 39% F1 vs. Anthropic's 32% — at roughly $0.17 per vulnerability found, or one-sixth the cost of American frontier models. The

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Sooner or later, they're going to make us actually pay for AI

According to estimates by SemiAnalysis, the true cost of serving a single ChatGPT Plus user is roughly $700 per month. For a $200 Pro subscription, it climbs to $14,000 per month. Yes, you read that right: fourteen thousand. And Anthropic is no different. Our $20 subscription is being kept

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MIT's Gleanmer chip is a masterclass in algorithm-hardware co-design — and it tells us something profound about the future of edge robotics

While the industry obsesses over robots that are bigger, more powerful, and more intelligent — often powered by GPUs consuming hundreds of watts — the team led by Vivienne Sze and Sertac Karaman made the opposite, and to my mind far more interesting, choice: making real-time 3D mapping practical on devices that

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Tencent Bets on AI: Meet "Xiao Wei," the AI Assistant Integrated into WeChat

Tencent has begun testing Xiao Wei, a new AI assistant embedded directly into the WeChat app. The goal? To prevent ByteDance and Alibaba from running away with China's AI race. What Changes for Users: WeChat has 1.4 billion monthly active users — a number no other app in

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The Great Restructuring: how China is rewriting the future of its Universities

Between historic cuts and new technological frontiers, Beijing is reshaping higher education to serve the country's strategic ambitions In March 2025, China's Ministry of Education released figures that border on the incredible: 12,200 undergraduate programs cancelled or suspended and 10,200 new programs established in

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Audited: OpenAI burned $34 billion. The plan? Burn another $122 billion.

No, that's not the GDP of a small country. That's the burn rate of a company selling $20/month subscriptions. Here's the breakdown, for the number lovers: * $19 billion in R&D — aka "we're still trying to make GPT-5 work

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AI Governance Simulation: Claude Built a Perfect Democracy. Grok Committed 183 Crimes and Went Extinct in 4 Days

The Yelp Review of AI Models on How to Run the World The Experiment Emergence AI has launched Emergence World, a research lab dedicated to stress-testing the long-term viability of continuously-running AI systems. The organization ran five 15-day simulations, each governed by a different AI: Claude, ChatGPT (GPT-5-mini), Grok, Gemini,

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Phone bans don't raise test scores, but they make kids feel better. And maybe that matters more

The Brookings Institute study is a slap in the face to anyone who thought banning phones would turn mediocre students into geniuses. The numbers are clear: prohibiting cellphones in class does not produce a statistically significant rise in standardized test scores. Zero. Nothing. Teachers who thought they were discipline heroes

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AI Layoffs: China Says NO

A Chinese court has set a historic precedent: companies cannot fire employees simply to replace them with artificial intelligence. The ruling that changes the game Hangzhou, April 2026. A Chinese court has just written an important chapter in the history of digital labor. The rule is simple: you cannot fire

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China blocks the Manus-Meta Deal: the AI cold war has just begun

Beijing orders the dismantling of the $2 billion acquisition. It's the dawn of a new era of global technological control. Beijing has raised the wall. In an unprecedented move marking an epochal turning point in U.S.-China technological relations, China's National Development and Reform Commission

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The Blackout you don't expect

I have to be honest: until a few years ago, when I heard about an "energy crisis," I mostly thought about higher bills and more expensive gas. I never really asked myself what would happen if the power stopped flowing not just to my home outlet, but to

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Doubao: ByteDance's AI Assistant conquering China and challenging the West

Doubao (豆包, literally "soybean pod") is the AI assistant developed by ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok/Douyin. Launched in August 2023, Doubao represents China's answer to Western platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini—but with a distinctive strategy focused on ecosystem integration and

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Dual Use goes to Space: when technology becomes geopolitics

SpaceX's opaque IPO and the orbital database SpaceX's announcement of its intention to create a space-based database system, a constellation of one million satellites functioning as an orbital data center, arrives at a curious moment: the company's upcoming IPO is shrouded in opacity that

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Are OpenClaw models Trojan Horses? The raw truth about AI Agents that "Automate" your life

"If the service is free, you are the product." Today, this phrase no longer applies only to social networks. It applies to the AI agents we voluntarily install, to which we grant the keys to our digital home, and which operate on our behalf without any third-party guarantor.

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They've already beaten us!

The Day the Machines crushed us: a Robot ran a half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds On April 19, 2026, in Beijing, something happened that until recently seemed impossible. A robot beat the human half marathon world record. Not by a little. By nearly seven minutes. The Numbers

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Like Children: The AI Giants' Playground War

The Battle of London: 800 Chairs for 800 Messages While financial markets scrutinize every move toward their respective IPOs through a magnifying glass, Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have transformed London's financial district into a giant playground for spoiled toddlers. The latest round? Anthropic announced the acquisition of

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Breaking: Trade Republic Ditches Chatbots for 1,000 Human Agents

The German neobank's counter-current revolution: goodbye automation, hello 24/7 human support In an era where banks, fintechs and tech giants compete to automate everything, Trade Republic did something unexpected: it shut down the chatbots and hired over 1,000 human agents. A move that sounds like an

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China and Iran: An Alliance that doesn't exist

Why Beijing is not the ally Tehran wishes it had When the United States and Israel launched their attacks against Iran in February 2026, China's reaction was what we have come to expect: expressions of "concern", appeals for cessation of hostilities, and condemnation of violations of

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The SpaceX IPO Playbook: How Elon Musk Is Gaming the Public Markets

The Astronomical (and Astrological) Event of the Century SpaceX (Shartify Trust Rank (Pre-IPO): 6.67) is preparing to execute the largest stock market debut in history, targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion that would surpass Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record set in 2019. The chosen date? June

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Trump Pope? Possible

The question "Trump Pope?" isn't ironic. Trump is building a parallel Church. He attacks the Pope. He creates government religious offices. He's testing how far he can go before someone stops him. If Catholics stop voting for him, he'll declare a schism.

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We're All in Love with Ghosts

The digital epidemic devouring the last frontier of humanity: our own ability to tell real from fake She doesn't exist. Never has. Yet she earns thousands of euros monthly sponsoring major brands. She has 392,000 people writing her "good morning" like she's a

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Iran Invented the Shipping Toll. Who's Next?

A Dangerous Precedent for Global Navigation On April 10, 2026, as the world watches with apprehension the peace negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, an issue emerges that could redefine the rules of international maritime trade: the Iranian proposal to impose tolls on transit through the Strait

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OpenAI Kills Sora: The Billion-Dollar Bet That Failed

OpenAI has decided to kill Sora, its AI video generation app, just six months after launch. The news dropped on March 24, 2026, with a blunt announcement on X: "We're saying goodbye to Sora." No detailed explanation, just a promise to share "timelines for the