By now, it’s one of the biggest global media stories in the continuing drama filled early days of the AI Tech Wave. Apple is suing OpenAI, its previously lauded early partner in AI. Over accelerated and massive hiring of AI talent and alleged charges...

The Bigger Picture, Sunday July 12 2026 I’ve been talking about global memory shortages spiked by the AI Tech Wave for over two years now. And now that ‘RAMageddon’ is here, it may be here longer than most assume. Especially given the cyclical ups and...

The Bigger Picture, Sunday July 12 2026 I’ve been talking about global memory shortages spiked by the AI Tech Wave for over two years now. And now that ‘RAMageddon’ is here, it may be here longer than most assume. Especially given the cyclical ups and...

AI: Weekly Summary. RTZ #1144 …week ending Friday July 10, 2026 Anthropic & OpenAI top AI models ‘Freed’, but far from free: US Government green-lit OpenAI latest GPT 5.6 model globally, to now compete with Anthropic’s Fable 5 top models. Both top tier...

Today’s theme: the ‘best of the rest’ AI models. This week the two top US frontier models came off ice — Anthropic’s Fable 5, freed after the three-week ‘Blip 2.0’ stoppage, and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, freed from its gated release. Now we’re seeing the best of...

I’ve discussed for a long while how China’s tech/AI companies large and small have taken the lead globally in open source AI models this AI Tech Wave. The lead was ceded by Meta’s global Llama models lead a couple of years ago, as it shifted its focus to...

Today’s theme: the US and China continue to work at cross-purposes on AI — both within and outside their borders. Almost every day, each country seems to reach for kryptonite against its own AI superpowers. Politicians and regulators on both sides keep...

It’s been three weeks after Anthropic’s screeching halt called by the US Government, in what I’ve been calling ‘The Blip 2.0’, and the green light to Anthropic in releasing Fable 5 (though not Mythos 5 for now). The US Government after also held back...

Today’s theme: AI price umbrellas getting larger. Led by the frontier labs — Anthropic especially, and OpenAI to a degree — the AI companies are widening the prices they charge their best customers for their latest and greatest models, and moving to a...

I’ve been relentlessly discussing the accelerating ‘RAMageddon’ where global memory supply constaints and unprecedented price increases, would be a multi-year feature of this AI Tech Wave. And not a quarterly boom and bust cycle for memory chip...