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This Week in AI: Chutes Chat Launches, Templar Breaks Training Records, and Tech Leaders Dine with Trump

September 1-5, 2025 The open source AI ecosystem had a busy week. Chutes dropped their chat app in beta, Templar smashed distributed training records, Switzerland launched a national AI model, and Trump hosted Big Tech CEOs for dinner while Elon Musk was notably absent. Here's what you need to know.

How a 21-Year-Old Just Fucking Destroyed Silicon Valley's $100 Billion AI Empire

Silicon Valley's $100 billion AI bluff just got called by a $650,000 decentralized network. And that's only the beginning of what's coming.

Microsoft Just Killed GitHub's Independence as Open Source AI Is Pulling Away

Microsoft is essentially playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. They've created a situation where they profit from open source AI development through GitHub while simultaneously controlling the platform that development depends on.

BitMind Launches Mobile App for Real-Time Deepfake Detection on Social Media

New smartphone app empowers users to instantly verify AI-generated content across Instagram, TikTok, X, and more.

They Convicted Roman Storm for Code They Don't Understand

Technology should be judged by its capabilities and legitimate uses, not by its worst-case applications. We don't ban cars because bank robbers use getaway vehicles. We don't criminalize mathematics because cryptography can hide criminal communications.

The App That Works When Everything Else Fails

Bitchat works when everything else fails. No internet, no cell towers, no servers just Bluetooth mesh networks that get stronger as more people join. What started as Jack Dorsey's weekend coding session became the communication tool refugees and disaster victims need.

Kimi K2 Just Dropped and It's Already Breaking the AI Market

Kimi K2 is the commoditization of AI happening in real-time. When trillion-parameter agentic intelligence becomes available at commodity prices, the game changes overnight.

Hugging Face's $299 Robot Takes on China's Robotics Revolution

The democratization of robotics just hit a price point that changes everything.

PewDiePie Just Red-Pilled 110 Million People on Digital Freedom

PewDiePie, the Swedish creator who built YouTube's biggest individual following by screaming at video games, just delivered one of the most impactful privacy tutorials of 2025. And he did it while wearing a tinfoil hat.

AI Will Hire You on Merit Alone

In the future, AI agents will transform hiring, eliminating the need for diversity initiatives by making pure merit the only criterion.

Privacy Is Normal, and Writing Code Is Not a Crime

The crypto community rallies behind Roman Storm as the US government escalates its war on financial privacy

Google Is Killing Open Source Android While GrapheneOS Fights for Digital Freedom

The most important mobile security project you've likely never heard of is under attack not from hackers or governments, but from Google itself. GrapheneOS just revealed how Big Tech is systematically dismantling open source Android while their lead developer fights a war.

How Peter Thiel Is Using Trump to Build America's Social Credit System

An investigation into the Trump administration's partnership with Peter Thiel's Palantir to create unprecedented surveillance infrastructure and how decentralized AI could be our last defense against digital authoritarianism

The Dread Pirate Ross Returns From Digital Exile

Ross Ulbricht walked out of prison after 11 years with nothing but the clothes on his back. Within months, he'd become a Bitcoin millionaire again not from government compensation, but from the crypto community rallying around him like he was their prodigal son returning home.