ByteDance goes big – very big – on AI

by quikefix quikefix.com | Aug 7, 2026 | AI and machine learning, Anthropic, ByteDance, DeepSeek, Meituan, Moonshot AI, News, OpenAI, Sections

Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.

Google’s Gemini leadership team has left the building

by quikefix quikefix.com | Aug 6, 2026 | Alphabet, Anthropic, Brian Mulberry, Demis Hassabis, Discovery Loop, Google, Google DeepMind, Ilya Sutskever, Isomorphic Labs, Jeff Dean, John Jumper, Koray Kavukcuoglu, News, Noam Shazeer, OpenAI, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, Sanjay Ghemawat, Sections, Sundar Pichai, Talent and leadership

Koray Kavukcuoglu inherits day-to-day control, with Cloud leaders expecting a more product-led Google Gemini.

Solly Malatsi stakes South Africa’s AI future on staying neutral

by quikefix quikefix.com | Aug 5, 2026 | Anthropic, Benjamin Rosman, Boston Consulting Group, DeepSeek, Huawei, Jeanette Morwane, Microsoft, News, Nvidia, Policy and regulation, Sections, Solly Malatsi, Waico, World Bank

Exclusive | The communications minister has rejected the idea that South Africa must align with Washington or Beijing.

After Anthropic ban, US battles ‘kill switch’ backlash

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 23, 2026 | AI and machine learning, Anthropic, Aura Salla, Christophe Grudler, Donald Trump, Edward Fishman, Jacob Helberg, Marco Rubio, News, OpenAI, Sections

US diplomats have been told to counter claims that Washington can switch off AI models overnight.

The plan to stop AI from breaking the world

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 16, 2026 | AI and machine learning, Amazon, Anthropic, Chamath Palihapitiya, Dario Amodei, DeepSeek, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, Google, Google DeepMind, Howard Lutnick, Microsoft, News, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sections, Sriram Krishnan, Tang Jie, Tom Wheeler, xAI, Zhipu AI

Frontier labs have backed Demis Hassabis’s call for a self-regulator, but critics warn it hands Washington the off-switch.

Claude just delayed the Fable 5 paywall again, extending free access until this date

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | AI, Anthropic, Claude, News

TL;DR Anthropic has extended free access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers until July 19, 2026. You can use Claude Fable 5 at no extra charge until you’ve consumed half of your weekly usage quota. After July 19, Fable 5 is expected to move to a pay-per-use model,...