AI stopped being a promise and started sending invoices. Today you can see exactly who is being handed the bill.
Nine stories, three questions underneath all of them: who gets the upside, who carries the cost, and who really gets a say.
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01:24 — Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO. That is every big carmaker on earth, combined.
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04:02 — Meta’s data centres: a $50,000 teacher bonus in Louisiana, and who really pays the power bill
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06:18 — Beijing blocks Meta’s Manus deal, and users get a date on which their files are deleted
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08:10 — Cognition and Devin at $40bn, three months after $26bn. Mercedes-Benz is a customer.
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10:32 — CoreWeave, the landlord of AI: 1.85 gigawatts, or twice Munich’s annual electricity
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12:44 — The UK courts now take your smart glasses at the door
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15:22 — $30-an-hour humanoid cleaners — and the human in VR goggles steering them
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17:56 — Professors retiring early, with AI the last straw
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19:25 — Three things to do on Monday: portability, private spaces, and the bots in your meetings
AI news for humans, not robots. Stay curious, stay human.
What is AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota?
AI news for humans, not robots.
Every weekday, Malcolm Werchota comes out of the cave and explains what actually happened in AI — in plain language, with the numbers checked and the hype taken out. Around ten stories a day: three explained slowly, the rest fast.
No jargon. No breathless futurism. Just what happened, what it costs, and who gets handed the bill — explained the way you would explain it to a smart friend who does not work in tech.
If you run a company, sit on a board, or simply want to understand the technology reshaping your industry, this is your daily 25 minutes. Keep the stories that touch your world.
Stay curious, stay human.