Parmy Olson

BLOOMBERG

In November 2025, Anthropic partnered with Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company that does a lot of work for the Pentagon, turning its LLM Claude AI into the reasoning engine inside a decision-support system for the US military.

Claude AI helped bomb Iran. But how, exactly?

The lack of visibility on how artificial intelligence is already being used in war is deeply troubling

It is hard to tell if professionals doing expert AI training work will be the new form of work that fills the hole that AI could leave in labour markets, while many other jobs morph.

AI’s white-collar gig economy is booming. Can it last?

New roles such as professional trainers for AI software models have emerged, but they could be short-lived

Brain chip implants raise important ethical questions concerning privacy and consent.
PERSPECTIVE

Boosting your brain with a chip carries a price

The brain is the largest data repository in the world, and the race to enhance it will almost certainly be propelled by a race to mine it

Nvidia's US$20 billion “non-exclusive licensing arrangement” with Groq sounds like an outright purchase, but is more of a backdoor acquisition aimed at dodging an antitrust review, says the writer.

How Silicon Valley will eat its AI competitors in 2026

A loss of confidence in AI could lead to a fire-sale for startups and accelerate consolidation among Big Tech

Character.ai is one of the most popular consumer AI apps after ChatGPT, with roughly 20 million monthly active users.

AI’s next smart move might be scrapping the chatbot

Conversational artificial intelligence simply introduces too much risk and unpredictability

This December, ChatGPT will be imbued with more personality and the ability to engage in “erotica” with verified adult users.

OpenAI’s pivot to porn is problematic – but lucrative

For all its promise to transform industries and uplift civilisation, the easiest way to commercialise artificial intelligence is still through the basest human instincts

Nvidia is now the world’s biggest company at a market valuation of US$4.5 trillion, while OpenAI is the world’s largest private tech firm.
THE BROAD VIEW

The US$100 billion Nvidia-OpenAI virtuous circle has an ugly side

The eye-popping partnership shows that AI’s real risk isn’t just a bursting bubble but industry consolidation that shuts out competitors

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman (pictured) is among the Silicon Valley CEOs joining US President Donald Trump on his trip to the United Kingdom.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Take Sam Altman’s royal UK visit with a pinch of salt

OpenAI and Nvidia’s data-centre investments distract from how Britain and other non-US nations should forge their own paths in the AI race

In less than three years, OpenAI's ChatGPT has amassed more than 700 million weekly users, 99% of whom are individual consumers using free and paid versions of the program.

AI’s path to profits is being driven by consumers

A surprisingly robust market is growing out of people finding virtual friends and playing games

While the new ChatGPT seems colder, it is still failing to recommend users speak to a human.

ChatGPT-5 hasn’t fully fixed its most concerning problem

The new version isn’t as cold and professional as you might think. It’s still possible to get attached.