Altman and Musk take their feud to the developers

by nouman | Aug 31, 2026 | Anthropic, Anysphere, Cursor, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Michael Truell, News, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Sections, SpaceX, Talent and leadership, Tom Brown, X

OpenAI will stop supplying models to Cursor, the coding tool SpaceX bought for $60-billion.

Nvidia’s best customers are becoming its biggest threat

by nouman | Aug 30, 2026 | AI and machine learning, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Anthropic, Arthur Goldstuck, Broadcom, Clément Delangue, Colette Kress, Google, Hugging Face, Jensen Huang, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, News, Nvidia, OpenAI, Sections, World Wide Worx

Buying open-source AI hub Hugging Face is less about revenue than about defending Nvidia’s chip empire from within.

South African talk radio is now searchable

by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Anthropic, Broadcasting and Media, Locl, News, OpenAI, Primedia Broadcasting, SABC, Sections, Shaun Trennery

South African talk radio is now searchable. Shaun Trennery built the platform without writing a line of code himself.

Forget the iPhone: Apple’s real next act is your home

by nouman | Aug 27, 2026 | Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Electronics and hardware, Google, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, News, Nvidia, OpenAI, Sections, Tim Cook, TrendForce

The clue to what comes next is a small aluminium box Apple announced this week with no keynote at all.

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.