The Who's Who of AI

“"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artif…” evidence ↗

“While Anthropic and OpenAI aren't yet public, you can track their valuation changes via Microsoft's quarterly earnings as it's invested in both. Microsoft marked up its Anthropic investment by $3.2B and marked down its OpenAI investment -$600M. It seems ind…” evidence ↗

“SWAG-Bid is an innovative auto-bidding framework that enhances online advertising, leveraging sliding-window evaluation and cross-episode planning to increase campaign returns by 5.65% while improving constraint satisfaction, ensuring long-term advertiser r…” evidence ↗

“MCP-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever-heres-what-changes-for-ai-agents venturebeat.com/infrastructure… #AI #MCP #standards” evidence ↗

“"Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding. Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows." asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...” evidence ↗

“Really enjoyed returning for another AI and the news panel discussion on the Curiosity Desk @wgbh.org with Hiawatha Bray (The Globe) and Kathy Pham (HKS)! www.youtube.com/live/FYvdkj0...” evidence ↗

“Most of the Image Editing "Spaces" run on ZeroGPU, which is free to users and developers (paid for by HuggingFace investors). Many of those Spaces are advertised as NSFW and there is no claiming HuggingFace has been unaware of what they're used for.” evidence ↗

“Someone's looking for another round of funding. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...” evidence ↗

““If the US abandons its own standards, we don’t ‘catch up’ to China; we simply validate a global race to the bottom in which American creative capital becomes free raw material for anyone to scrape.”” evidence ↗

““There are wider signs that enthusiasm around AI investments could be slowing, as questions grow over the profitability and productivity growth the technology can bring.” www.politico.eu/article/ai-b...” evidence ↗

“Algorithmic insights are the novel techniques, methods, and design know-how that materially improve AI systems. Our new framework can help organizations make informed decisions about which insights warrant security investments.” evidence ↗