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AI Supremacy

20 stories

AI Reality: The Race to (P)doom End-times

AI SupremacyVoicesAI Reality: The Race to (P)doom End-times The closed model “frontier slowdown” might hamper the AI boom until Anthropic’s IPO in 7 weeks. No boom, no bother. While frontier labs race to recursive-self-improvement capabilities in secret.

September 14
AI Insights: Is AI Adoption Slowing down?

AI SupremacyVoicesAI Insights: Is AI Adoption Slowing down? OpenAI: We’re slowing down.

September 11
AI Reality: European Sovereign AI is Dying

AI SupremacyVoicesAI Reality: European Sovereign AI is Dying Mistral’s pivot shows Europe’s struggles to compete in capital intensive markets. Mistral has raised $7.5 billion (€7 billion) so far but it wasn’t enough. It will end up a Neo Cloud.

September 10
GPT-6 Astra’s Achilles Heel, Trust in OpenAI is Fading

AI SupremacyVoicesGPT-6 Astra’s Achilles Heel, Trust in OpenAI is Fading GPT-6 Astra’s get out of jail card: OpenAI’s imminent IPO has so many legal risks, it’s adding up. The Hugging Face incident is highly concerning.

September 8
Visions of AI: An Inflection Point in Robotaxis in 2027

AI SupremacyVoicesVisions of AI: An Inflection Point in Robotaxis in 2027 Google’s Waymo leads an all-out expansion of Robotaxis that will shift gears starting in 2027.

September 3
China’s AI Rally Is Real. Most Global Investors Are Missing It.

AI SupremacyVoicesChina’s AI Rally Is Real. Most Global Investors Are Missing It. How to understand China’s buzzy Physical AI and AI chip IPOs. Behind DeepSeek, humanoid robots and AI chips is a stock market reshaped by semiconductors, supply chains and a new wave of tech momentum.

September 1
The AI Backlash is Accelerating

AI SupremacyVoicesThe AI Backlash is Accelerating The most important AI bottleneck, is human.

August 26
Visions of AI: the advent of world models

AI SupremacyVoicesVisions of AI: the advent of world models Following the breadcrumbs of Nvidia.

August 26
We’ve never seen an Anthropic before

AI SupremacyVoicesWe’ve never seen an Anthropic before Anthropic’s IPO is going to leave OpenAI in the past.

August 20
Visions of AI: Automating repetitive grunt Coding tasks

AI SupremacyVoicesVisions of AI: Automating repetitive grunt Coding tasks In an era of rapid consolidation and M&A, one Coding AI startup is growing their Enterprise base at a startling pace. The era of hyper specialized routing is creating autonomous SaaS AI winners.

August 20
Visions of AI: Personal Intelligence

AI SupremacyVoicesVisions of AI: Personal Intelligence Igor Babuschkin's new startup profiled. Issue #1

August 13
AI Things, Bits and Bites

AI SupremacyVoicesAI Things, Bits and Bites Mid 2026 AI News in a nutshell. Issue #1. 📰

August 11
How AI's Demand for Compute could Disrupt America

AI SupremacyVoicesHow AI's Demand for Compute could Disrupt America The spectre of AI, labor participation churn, worker slice of GPD, an ageist AI, a debt binge, a cartel in waiting. An accelerating demand for compute that eats at the fabric of society.

August 10
The Year AI Science and the Physical AI Industry Came Alive

AI SupremacyVoicesThe Year AI Science and the Physical AI Industry Came Alive Google Gemini Robotics 2, Unitree and AgiBot IPOs, Robot and optical transceiver bans, the compute cost problem, Negative FCF dilemma, mounting debt, circular revenue.

August 6
The Genius of Leopold Aschenbrenner

AI SupremacyVoicesThe Genius of Leopold Aschenbrenner Fame, fortune, prophecy, leverage and controversy. A real 'Nostradamus of AI' if you will.

July 31
AI & Robotics enters Escalating U.S. Protectionism Phase

AI SupremacyVoicesAI & Robotics enters Escalating U.S. Protectionism Phase The bifurcation of technology will now include robots and perhaps open-source models. If you can't beat them, ban them.

July 30
The Great AI Disappointment

AI SupremacyVoicesThe Great AI Disappointment Americans’ feelings about AI are clear and the tech isn't living up to the promises or the hype. While the U.S. is damaging its reputation with the world and its own consumers...

July 28
Datacenter Capex is Spilling over into a ChatGPT of Robotics Moment set for 2027 and this decade.

AI SupremacyVoicesDatacenter Capex is Spilling over into a ChatGPT of Robotics Moment set for 2027 and this decade. Do people really want datacenters, robots and AI overlords? This is going to become a problem. The robotics flood is near. 🤖

July 23
The Open Source AI China Problem Just got Worse

AI SupremacyVoicesThe Open Source AI China Problem Just got Worse Model supremacy in a token-efficient macro environment plagued by HBM, energy and datacenter compute bottlenecks. The 2026 story of AI is getting geopolitical.

July 21
Who are Top AI Sources to follow on LinkedIn?

AI SupremacyVoicesWho are Top AI Sources to follow on LinkedIn? Part I: I take my first preliminary look into this, for the first time in years.

July 16