😳 ‘An existential threat’: Falling behind in AI outweighs tariffs
Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet are deep in a financial arms race - throwing billions into AI infrastructure like it’s a land grab. Meta unloaded $17B last quarter alone, Microsoft edged past $24B (with another $30B penciled in), and Alphabet? They’ve earmarked $85B for 2025. This isn’t casual spending - it’s a full-blown push to corner the generative AI frontier.
Meanwhile, new tariffs on semiconductors (100%) and copper (50%) could nudge data-center costs up 5–7%. It’s a hiccup for giants; they’ll weather it. But for smaller firms building from scratch or scaling fast? That’s a body blow. Long-term investments start to wobble.
The White House isn’t asleep at the wheel - fast-tracking permits, tossing out tax breaks, even mulling a stake in Intel. Nvidia and TSMC are also bulking up domestic production to cushion the tariff punch. Underneath it all: missing this AI leap now could be the kind of mistake no price fix can patch later.
🧐 Tomb Raider co-creator fires back at AI remaster backlash
The updated Tomb Raider trilogy - specifically IV through VI - hit a nerve. Fans were quick to rage after whispers of AI-written dialogue emerged. Online forums flared up with phrases like “soulless” and “lazy,” while others called it a betrayal of the franchise’s legacy.
Toby Gard, the original mind behind Lara Croft, didn’t stay quiet. His reply? “Not cool. Not classy.” His defense: AI helped, sure - but it didn’t replace actual writers. Still, perception has its own gravity. Once gamers get a whiff of synthetic storytelling, trust is hard to claw back.
Some folks shrug - arguing AI in game development is already the norm, whether people notice or not. Others feel that if Tomb Raider caves, it opens the floodgates. And honestly? That’s what scares them.
🚧 MIT report: 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots go nowhere
MIT just dropped a rough one: a full 95% of enterprise AI pilots crash before making it to production. And it’s not about bad code or broken tools - it’s about something squishier: the learning curve. Most enterprise AI just doesn’t grow with the people using it.
By contrast, general-purpose tools - ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. - succeed around 83% of the time. Huge delta. Companies trying to reinvent the wheel with custom builds are crawling along at ~33% success rates.
One anecdote sticks: a corporate lawyer spent fifty grand on a niche contract AI system… only to ditch it for ChatGPT. Her reasoning? “At least I could steer it like a conversation.” That says a lot. The polished enterprise tech often gets outperformed by a mass-market model that just knows how to listen.
📈 Rezolve Ai’s Nasdaq birthday bash - $70M ARR and global reach
Rezolve Ai just hit one year on the Nasdaq, and they’re definitely not keeping it low-key. The company clocked $70 million in ARR, added customers across five continents, and landed fresh partnerships with Microsoft, Citadel, and Google. Not too shabby for a business still scaling up.
Their niche? AI-powered tools for retail - smarter chat, sharper recommendations, faster support. With e-commerce on the rise, there’s momentum.
But here’s the cautious whisper behind the party music: sometimes early growth outpaces infrastructure. The coming year will show if Rezolve holds its edge - or if it’s another headline AI stock that burned bright and fast.