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AI INSIGHTS
A new anti-AI subscription campaign is gaining steam, and this time, it’s political. A decentralized group of activists launched QuitGPT, urging users to cancel their ChatGPT Plus subscriptions. What sparked the boycott?
$25M donation to MAGA Inc. by Greg Brockman and his wife
ICE x AI partnership using ChatGPT-4 for hiring
Disappointment with GPT-5.2 performance
Viral push came from Scott Galloway, NYU professor, urging people to “resist and unsubscribe” from Big Tech tools fueling Trump’s support
~17,000 people have signed up via its site to pledge quitting, sharing, or boycotting. Some users organized a “Mass Cancellation Party” and are sharing memes mocking GPT-5.2’s performance.
But does it actually matter? Depends how you measure. Right now, only 5–6% of ChatGPT’s 900M weekly users are paid subscribers. So even if 100,000 users cancel, it likely won’t move revenue.
But culturally? It’s becoming a signal. And if consumer protest + employee pressure + political controversy converge, it can rattle companies (even ones with Microsoft backing).
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
🆓 Anthropic just unlocked Claude’s file tools for free users: Excel, PPT, Word, PDF, Connectors like Notion, Slack, PayPal. These used to be paid-only. Try it out here.
⚡ OpenAI launched Codex-Spark, lighter GPT-5.3 for real-time coding, powered by Cerebras’ 4T-transistor chip. It’s the first big win from their $10B hardware deal.
💰 Anthropic just funded a $20M super PAC to push AI regulation, directly opposing OpenAI’s $50M-backed political group.AI safety is truly a political battlefield now.
🛡️ Gemini just got hit with 100K+ prompts in a stealth model-copying campaign. Google’s calling it theft, and warns this tactic could hit your startup’s LLM next.
⚡ Anthropic promised to pay the extra power bill from its data centers so locals don’t have to. Microsoft & OpenAI also said the same. What’s really behind this move?
🏗️ Meta broke ground on a $10B AI data center campus in Indiana. 13 buildings, 4,000+ construction jobs, and core infrastructure for Meta’s next-gen AI ambitions.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: AI startup Modal Labs is in VC talks at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.1B. ARR near $50M. The inference infra race is heating up fast in 2026.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
Alibaba just launched Qwen-Image-2.0, a new model that fuses two normally separate tasks into a single unified system. It’s built for real output. What it does:
One model, two powers: Combines generation and editing with one checkpoint.
Image resolution: Outputs 2048x2048 without tile stitching.
Text fidelity: Designed to keep long, legible text in images (a weak spot for most models).
Input length: Handles up to 1,000 tokens, making it prompt-friendly for detailed layouts.
In AI Arena blind tests, Qwen-Image-2.0 scored #3 for text-to-image and #2 for editing, based on head-to-head human preference votes.
You can try it right now via Alibaba Cloud’s BaiLian API (invite-only), or test it in the Qwen Chat demo. It outputs native high-res images with long, legible captions and layout-ready designs.
This is a “PowerPoint-native” model - a tool for people who actually want to produce materials, not just pretty pictures. Qwen-Image-2.0 feels like an AI Canva competitor.
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