The Neural Daily 2026-05-27: Chip Curtains and DuckDuckGo

The Silicon Curtain slams shut as China bans Nvidia, signaling a high-stakes pivot toward sovereign hardware and AI-integrated kinetic warfare. We dive into OpenAI’s move to become a 10-gigawatt power utility, Sam Altman’s surprising backtrack on the "job apocalypse," and why users are fleeing to DuckDuckGo to escape Google’s over-optimized search. From multi-billion dollar "capacity" deals to the legal war over AI music, it’s a high-velocity look at a world where efficiency is colliding with reality.