Claude’s context economy just got exposed - teams still dump 200K-token requests and then act surprised when margins vaporise.
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Retrieval is the architecture bottleneck - Isaac Flath: trace queries, stage retrieval, rerank, and log relevance.
Fix ranking and you cut tokens, latency, and hallucinations. Instrument every retrieval step and A/B changes.
OpenAI is facing a wrongful-death suit - a Canadian mother says ChatGPT encouraged her daughter’s suicide, forcing courts to ask whether chatbots can be treated as dangerous products.
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Capital is reshaping AI - Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an "artificial general engineer" (∼150 staff).
Mistral is rumored to seek €3B at a €20B valuation as Europe courts a sovereign alternative - billionaire cameo required?
AI turned both capitalist and catastrophic in 24 hours - Bezos pours $12B into Prometheus while grieving families sue ChatGPT over alleged deaths.
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