Week 37: Oracle Scores $300B, Perplexity Steals Dictionaries, Lights Dim Everywhere

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WARS

Everyone's fighting over AI's plumbing, and the casualties are mounting. This week saw Oracle secure the deal of the century, Perplexity get caught red-handed stealing dictionaries (yes, dictionaries), and the entire power grid groan under AI's bottomless appetite. We're not building the future anymore — we're strip-mining the present to keep it running.

THE GOLD RUSH FOR PIPES
Oracle Wins Infrastructure Lottery with a $300 billion OpenAI cloud deal that transforms yesterday's database company into tomorrow's AI landlord. Dictionary Thieves Get Caught as Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for literally stealing the definition of stealing.

THE ADULTS TRY TO INTERVENE
California Writes New Rules as lawmakers pass SB 53 demanding AI companies explain themselves before they break more things. Even AI Needs Sick Days when Anthropic's Claude crashes, forcing developers to remember how coding worked in 2019. The Lights Start Flickering as MIT reveals AI's electricity appe…