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Apple's AI Fumble Reveals the Real Winner of the $690B Infrastructure Race

Apple dropped 5% today — its worst session since April 2025. The reason: Siri's AI overhaul is delayed again. Features promised for iOS 26.4 in March are now slipping to iOS 26.5 or possibly iOS 2...

How to Build a Personal AI Companion That Actually Remembers You

Every AI conversation starts from zero. You explain who you are, what you need, what you already tried. Then the session ends and it all evaporates. You do it again tomorrow....

The AI Coding Productivity Paradox: Why Your Copilot Might Be Your Copiloff

You're paying $20/month for Cursor Pro. You've got Claude in one tab, Copilot autocompleting in another, and your IDE is basically an AI orchestra conductor at this point. You feel faster. The...

The AI Platform War Isn't About Models Anymore — It's About Business Models

On Super Bowl Sunday, Anthropic ran a darkly comic ad showing a chatbot pausing mid-conversation to serve a mattress promotion. The tagline: ads are coming to AI, but they won't come to Claude. Th...

The SaaSpocalypse Got the Target Wrong

Mustafa Suleyman told Fortune today that most white-collar work will be automated within 18 months. Ten days ago, Anthropic launched Claude Cowork and wiped $285 billion off software stocks in a singl...

When AI Models Find 500 Zero-Days in a Week, Who's Really Winning the Cybersecurity Arms Race?

Four frontier AI models launched in the same week. OpenAI shipped GPT-5.3-Codex. Google upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6. Zhipu open-sourced GLM-5 at 744 billion parame...