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Can AI replace researchers… fund itself with ads… and still stay under human control? Microsoft says “yes.” Google says “it’s already helping.” OpenAI says “we need revenue.”
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Is AI overspending… or just getting started? In a new FT interview, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, says this wave justifies massive compute.
15 years → 1 trillion× more training compute.
Next 3 years → another 1,000× jump.
Result? Models that code better than most humans. Even Linux creators now rely on AI daily.
Microsoft extended its deal with OpenAI to 2032. But Suleyman wants full self-sufficiency:
→ Build Microsoft’s own frontier models
→ Reach “professional-grade AGI”
His timeline?
12 - 18 months → AI handles most white-collar tasks.
2 - 3 years → coordinated AI agents running complex systems.
But his key idea is different: Humanist superintelligence.
AI must stay under human control. No AI rights. No model welfare shift.
20% of Copilot queries are already medical. Microsoft is now pushing “medical superintelligence” to outperform top doctor panels.
Why it matters: This race isn’t just AGI vs AGI. It’s speed vs safety. Autonomy vs control. The real question isn’t who wins. It’s who stays in charge.
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FIRE RECAP: BIGGEST AI NEWS THIS WEEK
💰 OpenAI just began testing ads in ChatGPT, shaking the idea of “free AI” and sparking debates on trust, privacy, and biased answers.
🏦 Anthropic raised $30B, pushing its $380B valuation into record territory and signaling a serious Claude vs OpenAI/Google showdown.
🧠 Google upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think for science and math, fueling the “AI that thinks like scientists” race in reasoning models.
👨💻 OpenAI dropped GPT-5.3-Codex, igniting fresh coding benchmarks as devs test how far AI programming has advanced.
🏗️ Meta is building a $10B AI data center, proving compute is the new oil as capex and power wars escalate.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🚀 ByteDance just launched Doubao 2.0, pushing into the “agent era” where AI handles complex tasks, not just Q&A. With 155M weekly users and DeepSeek looming, China’s AI race is heating up. See what’s new here.
📈 After bold Super Bowl ads, Claude jumped to No. 7 on the U.S. App Store with a 32% download spike. The “no ads” message clearly landed. Here’s the data behind it.
🎬 Hollywood is pushing back on Seedance 2.0, accusing ByteDance of enabling large-scale copyright infringement. Disney and Paramount already sent cease-and-desist letters. This fight could get big. Read more here.
⚖️ OpenAI accused DeepSeek of distilling its models and bypassing access limits. The memo to Congress signals rising U.S.–China AI tensions. Full story here.
🐋 Google’s Perch 2.0 AI model, trained on birds, now classifies whale sounds underwater with strong results. No marine data in training, yet it works. The research is fascinating. Explore it here.
🤝 AI Acquisitions: Keycard acquires Anchor.dev to secure autonomous coding agents at runtime. With AI writing nearly 100% of code at Anthropic and OpenAI, and agents active at Ramp and Stripe, Keycard moves to solve the autonomy–security tradeoff for enterprise adoption.
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🎬 Seedance 2.0 delivers cinematic AI video creation, with consistent characters and precise narrative control.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
Google’s Gemini Deep Think has moved beyond Olympiad math. It’s now helping solve real research problems across mathematics, computer science, and physics.
The Jan 2026 version scored up to 90% on IMO-ProofBench and showed strong scaling on PhD-level tasks.
Meet Aletheia - a research agent powered by Gemini Deep Think. It can generate proofs, verify them, revise mistakes, and even admit failure. It also uses Google Search to avoid fake citations.
Early results:
Solved 4 open Erdős problems.
Contributed to published math papers.
Helped unblock research in algorithms, ML optimization, auction theory, and cosmic string physics.
Some work is heading to top venues like ICLR ’26.
AI isn’t replacing scientists. It’s becoming a serious research collaborator.
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