The Week in AI: Power Plays, Cosmic Ambitions, and Billion-Dollar Bets

Sorry we have been quiet.. it has been a busy time in the office. Negotiations. Partnerships. Pivots. Nothing unusual really..

Likewise it’s been a restless week in the world of artificial intelligence — where boardroom dramas, trillion-dollar dreams, and orbiting data centers all collide in one dizzying narrative.

Here’s the lowdown for you in a nutshell:

1. When OpenAI turned on itself
In the latest twist of Silicon Valley theatre, OpenAI’s own co-founder Ilya Sutskever reportedly penned a 52-page memo detailing “patterns of dishonesty and manipulation” in a failed bid to oust Sam Altman last year. Former CTO Mira Murati allegedly provided supporting evidence, even drafting a separate “Brockman Memo” about co-founder Greg Brockman. The AI revolution might be run by machines one day, but for now, human intrigue still steals the show.

2. Google’s cosmic leap: data centers in orbit
Google announced Project Suncatcher, a plan to deploy solar-powered TPU satellites by 2027. The promise? Data centers in space that run eight times more efficiently than their Earth-bound cousins. It’s sustainability — with a rocket attached.

3. China draws the digital curtain
Beijing moved to tighten control over its AI infrastructure, banning U.S. chips in all state-funded data centers. NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are officially out of the Chinese market — a sharp reminder that the AI race is as geopolitical as it is technological.

4. Siri’s new brain: a billion-dollar reboot
Apple and Google sealed a $1-billion-per-year pact to power the next-gen Siri with Google’s Gemini model (1.2 trillion parameters, if you like big numbers). The focus is on reasoning, summarization, and privacy-centric cloud computing — a polite way of saying Siri finally plans to catch up.

5. The rise of “vibe coding”
Collins Dictionary named “vibe coding” as 2025’s Word of the Year — a nod to the growing movement of developers who build applications through natural-language interaction rather than code. The vibe, apparently, is strong enough to change how we think about programming itself.

6. The U.S. flirts with AI infrastructure loans
OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar floated the idea that U.S. government loan guarantees could support the trillion-dollar expansion of AI data centers. Altman later clarified that OpenAI isn’t directly seeking the funds — but Washington’s interest is enough to make the global cloud industry twitch.

7. Perplexity and Snapchat’s $400-million alliance
Snapchat just crowned Perplexity as its official AI search engine starting 2026. The partnership blends cash and equity, sending Snap’s stock soaring by 24%. Consider this the next stage in social-search symbiosis.

8. Michael Burry bets against the AI kings
The “Big Short” legend is at it again. Michael Burry reportedly placed $1.1 billion in puts against NVIDIA and Palantir, hinting on X that “sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.” A contrarian move in an industry drunk on optimism.

9. Musk’s trillion-dollar payday
Tesla shareholders just greenlit Elon Musk’s record $1-trillion compensation plan, tied to milestones like selling one million humanoid robots and hitting an $8.5-trillion market cap. Even by Musk standards, that’s audacious — part sci-fi, part Wall Street fever dream.

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