Licenses or lawsuits? The new battleground for AI training data
What Changed and Why It Matters The AI data war just escalated. The New York Times filed a new lawsuit against Perplexity. It alleges large‑scale copying and use of Times…
Europe’s AI mega-rounds arrive: Black Forest Labs raises $300M
What Changed and Why It Matters Black Forest Labs, a German visual AI startup, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation. That’s a model-scale round, not an app check. Why it…
Beyond Transformers: why startups are betting on new AI stacks
What Changed and Why It Matters Transformers still dominate. But the economics are pushing founders to explore alternatives. Attention scales quadratically. Context windows are expensive. Latency breaks real-time UX. Energy…