Altman: an AI power monopoly would be a 'long-term disaster'
After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 8 11
"AI communism": Kimi K3 shakes the thesis of the model monopoly on Wall Street
On the TechCrunch Equity podcast, American VCs refer to the Kimi K3 effect on valuations as "AI communism." The real signal: the first time a Chinese open-weight model forces American CFOs to recalculate their P&L.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 5 8
$1.65T off-balance-sheet: Nikkei's investigation prices the AI debt that shows up nowhere
A Nikkei Asia investigation, relayed by Futurism (22 July), aggregates the off-balance-sheet AI commitments of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: ~$1.65 trillion combined, versus $1.35T in reported debt. Meta alone accounts for ~$420B.
Jul 23, 2026 at 18:40 8 8