Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

Leaked Claude screenshots reveal a full-stack app builder with templates, live preview, one-click publishing, and built-in databases - putting Anthropic on a direct collision course with Lovable's $6.6 billion vibe-coding empire.

A UPenn-BU paper models AI-driven layoffs as a Prisoner's Dilemma: each firm wins by automating, but when everyone does it, collapsing demand makes every firm worse off. Their proposed fix is a Pigouvian tax on automated tasks.

A developer used an HTTP proxy to capture full API requests across four Claude Code versions and found that v2.1.100 adds roughly 20,000 invisible server-side tokens to every request - inflating billing by 40% with no user visibility.

A Stanford study shows frontier AI models achieve 70-80% of visual benchmark scores with no images provided, exposing a fundamental flaw in how multimodal AI is evaluated.

Arcee AI ships Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 398B sparse MoE reasoning model under Apache 2.0 that hits 91.9% on PinchBench for $0.85 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.

A suspect linked to the Pause AI movement threw a homemade incendiary at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, then threatened to burn the company's headquarters.

Meta expands its CoreWeave partnership by $21 billion through December 2032, bringing total commitments to $35 billion and locking in early NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments.

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.

Intel will use its 18A process node to manufacture chips for the Tesla-SpaceX-xAI joint venture targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute annually - and claims $2B in CHIPS Act subsidies in the process.