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Industry
The former Google CEO's commencement speech about AI's promise got drowned out by graduates who aren't buying it.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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Opinion
When graduates facing a brutal job market boo the former Google CEO's tech optimism, maybe it's time to listen.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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Industry
Today's dispatch from the Industry Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Opinion
The AI industry keeps doubling down on bigger models while the people who actually understand the tech are walking away from the table.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Industry
The AI video startup is betting on a path to general intelligence that doesn't look like the rest of the industry, just as experiments show current models still can't be trusted to run businesses alone.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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Opinion
Academic publishing's preprint giant is finally cracking down on AI-generated garbage, but the real story is what took them so long.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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Industry
The networking giant's latest layoffs show how even profitable tech companies are reshaping their workforces to fund AI ambitions.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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Opinion
When your internal experiment works so well you have to shut it down, that's not a failure, it's a threat.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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Industry
Anthropic's new push downmarket targets 36 million small businesses, and legal tech's biggest success story just hit $500M in ARR to show exactly why.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Opinion
AI is genuinely democratizing software creation, but the writing about it is focused entirely on what we gain and almost nothing on what we're trading away.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Industry
As Meta prepares to cut 10 percent of its staff next week, the company's financial results and employee morale tell two completely different stories about what AI is actually doing to tech's biggest employers.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Opinion
Vibe coding isn't just a cute trend for tech hobbyists — it's about to break the strangest monopoly in modern life.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Industry
Sam Altman's trial testimony paints a picture of a co-founder obsessed with control while the AI industry he helped start has quietly grown up around him.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
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Opinion
The ongoing Musk v. OpenAI trial keeps producing jaw-dropping details, but one piece of testimony cuts straight to the heart of what's actually being fought over.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
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Industry
Strip away the marketing and here's what companies are really doing with AI in 2026 -- the use cases delivering ROI, the expensive flops, and the deployment patterns that separate real adoption from AI theater.
By The AI Beat · May 7, 2026
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Coding
AI hasn't replaced developers -- but it has fundamentally changed how software gets built. Real data on productivity gains, tool adoption, and the junior dev question.
By The AI Beat · May 6, 2026
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Startups
Venture funding is up but concentrated. Thin wrappers are dying. Vertical AI is thriving. Here's the data-driven picture of the AI startup ecosystem halfway through the decade.
By The AI Beat · May 5, 2026
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Regulation
The NYT is suing OpenAI. Getty won a default judgment against Stability. Congress is drafting new statutes. Here's the full legal, technical, and economic picture of AI copyright in 2026.
By The AI Beat · May 3, 2026
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Search
AI-powered search is pulling informational queries away from Google at an accelerating rate. But the picture is more complex than 'Google is dead.' A data-driven breakdown of what's actually changing.
By The AI Beat · May 1, 2026
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Regulation
The EU AI Act is enforceable. China requires algorithm registrations. The US still has no federal law. Here's a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown of the rules, penalties, and loopholes that matter right now.
By The AI Beat · April 30, 2026
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Ai Agents
Companies are deploying AI agents for real work -- not just demos. Here are the use cases that are actually delivering value in 2026.
By The AI Beat · April 29, 2026
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ANALYSIS
Meta's Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Qwen vs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. We break down performance benchmarks, real cost comparisons, the 'open washing' problem, and when to use which.
By The AI Beat · April 19, 2026