AI

Six months. That is how long it took for OpenAI to build, hype, scale, and ultimately abandon Sora — its TikTok-style AI video generation app.

There is a particular kind of stubbornness that resists easy accounting. It does not appear in a spreadsheet. It does not respond to a higher bid.

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story. Garage startups, visionary founders, world-changing technology. What it doesn't love — or at least pretends not to — is when one of those founders allegedly spends two years running a $2.5 billion smuggling operation out of the company he helped build.

The federal government's confrontation with Anthropic last week was not a procurement dispute. It was a stress test — for the AI industry, for constitutional law, and for the question of whether private companies can maintain ethical guardrails when the government is the customer and tells them to remove those...

The numbers are more complicated than the headlines suggest. They are not, despite what some CEOs would have you believe, a clean story of robots replacing humans wholesale.