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Besides scaling back their ties with the West, they have since formed an alliance to fight the jihadist threat, turning to Russia and Turkey for their security needs.

The company said the “strategic pivot” meant prioritizing specialist AI tutors, while scaling back its focus on general AI tutor roles.

“They’re scaling back their advertising and promotional budgets. At the same time, fewer people are buying art. These are the two things that keep an art gallery business model afloat: sponsors and sales.”

But by scaling up the government’s investigative capacity, Gotham also alters the relationship between the state and the people it governs.

The author maintains that GPT-5’s disappointing performance has shattered the fundamental “scaling up” principle that underpins AI development—the belief that more computing power and data will lead to artificial general intelligence.