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Remote, the global payroll startup, just crossed three hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue and turned cash-flow positive — without hiring a single additional person. The company credits a fifty percent jump in revenue per employee to AI adoption, a signal that productivity gains from these tools are starting to show up in real balance sheets, not just pitch decks.
Meanwhile, the price war in frontier AI is accelerating, and the gap between American and Chinese labs is widening fast. Back-to-back cuts from DeepSeek and Xiaomi have pushed their most capable models to roughly one percent of what OpenAI and Anthropic charge for GPT five point five and Claude Opus. That is not a rounding error — it is a structural challenge that Western labs will have to answer.
And speaking of Anthropic, co-founder and chief science officer Tom Brown is drawing attention after publicly reflecting on a speech by the Pope about artificial intelligence, describing the experience in terms that The Register characterized as conjuring a ghost in the machine. It is a rare moment of philosophical candor from someone building the very systems raising those questions.
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