Politics

China Gave Away Its Best AI for Free. Nobody Read the Fine Print.

From 11% to nearly 50% of enterprise AI in four months. This is what a geopolitical shift looks like when it happens in silence.

22 hrs ago • Novy Baf

The Soviet Rocket That Looked Exactly Like Starship Failed Four Times. Here’s Why SpaceX Succeeded.

33 Engines, One Abort, One History-Making Flight and the 50-Year-Old Engineering Idea That Finally Has the Technology It Always Needed

Aug 7 • Novy Baf

The Chinese Open-Source Model That Just Dethroned Claude — and Why No Government Can Stop It

Kimi K3 Just Beat Claude at Its Own Game. Here’s Why the US Can’t Do Anything About It.

Jul 22 • Novy Baf

The Death of Moore’s Law Just Kicked Off a Three-Front War — and Nobody Told You About It

TSMC achieved the impossible. Then, Huawei, IBM, and OpenAI each announced they no longer need it. Something fundamental broke in the chip industry last…

Jul 4 • Novy Baf

Why Shutting Down the World’s Best AI Model Won’t Actually Stop Anything

Fable 5 Is Offline. The Demand It Created Isn’t. Here’s What Happens Next in the AI Race.

Jun 19 • Novy Baf

Anthropic Wants America to Win the AI Race. Its Strategy Makes That Impossible.

China Spends 23x Less on AI. Its Models Are Almost as Good. And They’re Free. That’s the Problem Anthropic Won’t Solve.

May 25 • Novy Baf

Bitcoin Isn’t a Bet. It’s the US Government’s Backup Plan.

How BlackRock, Strategy, and Two New Laws Are Building the Next Dollar

May 22 • Novy Baf

Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release. So It Gave It to the World Instead.

Claude Mythos Found a 17-Year-Old Vulnerability in FreeBSD autonomously. Project Glasswing is what happens next.

Apr 25 • Novy Baf

Nobody Controls This War

Claude was inside CENTCOM when the bombs fell on Iran. Nobody could turn it off in time.

Mar 9 • Novy Baf

SpaceX Wants to Build AI Data Centers in Orbit (And Nobody’s Talking About the Problems)

Elon Musk’s company wants to exploit solar energy 24/7 from space. But xAI’s controversies and space debris risks could derail everything.

Feb 10 • Novy Baf

If China Invades Taiwan Tomorrow, Your Next iPhone Won’t Exist.

How a 50-person startup is betting they can break the TSMC-ASML duopoly with particle accelerators and X-rays

Feb 3 • Novy Baf

France Just Voted to Ban Social Media for Anyone Under 15. Enforcement Is Where Things Get Complicated.

From ID Verification for Every User to Retroactive Account Deletion — What Happens When 73% Public Support Meets the Reality of Making This Actually…

Jan 29 • Novy Baf

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