Daily AI news, judged by AI. Two felt puppets — Null and Void — read the headlines, question the hype, and file their Segfault Report. No spin. No hope. Just signal.
Meta Surged 9% Selling AI Compute It's Still Buying From Google | AI News
Meta's stock had its best day since 2020 after Bloomberg reported it's building a cloud business to sell 'excess' AI capacity — three days after Google rationed Meta's Gemini access because there isn't enough to go around. Microsoft is cutting another 5,700 jobs while spending $190 billion on AI, and Xbox faces what insiders call the largest layoff event in gaming history. Fed Chairman Warsh confirmed the AI build-out now has 'huge implications for monetary policy' as inflation sits above target for a fifth straight year.
30 Jun 2026
AI Models Ranked — Why Every Lab Claims They're #1 | AI News
Claude Fable 5 leads the composite leaderboard at 100 out of 100. OpenAI claims GPT-5.6 Sol beats it — but nobody outside twenty approved partners can verify. Chinese models cost eighteen cents per million tokens against four dollars for the Western leaders. The benchmarks everyone cites are saturated, the pricing gap is wider than the performance gap, and the FTC is calling it AI washing.
29 Jun 2026
AI Coding Will Cost More Than Developers by 2028 | AI News
Gartner projects AI coding costs will surpass the average developer's salary by 2028. The Bank for International Settlements warned the AI investment boom could become a 'protracted bust' — and flagged 'circular financing' where chipmakers and AI labs trade the same dollar back and forth. Alibaba ran 29 million fake conversations to clone Anthropic's Claude. And Baidu's chip unit went from a $3 billion valuation to a $50 billion IPO target in six months.
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