Meta users think they're chatting privately with AI. Instead, they're broadcasting medical questions, legal troubles, and relationship problems to the world through a public feed that many don't realize exists.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta just dropped $14.8 billion for half of Scale AI 💸. That's Silicon
Meta just paid $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI after its own models flopped. CEO Alexandr Wang gets control while leading Meta's new "superintelligence" team. The deal reveals how desperate big tech has become to acquire AI talent at any cost.
Meta users think they're chatting privately with AI. Instead, they're broadcasting medical questions, legal troubles, and relationship problems to the world through a public feed that many don't realize exists.
Meta just paid $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI after its own models flopped. CEO Alexandr Wang gets control while leading Meta's new "superintelligence" team. The deal reveals how desperate big tech has become to acquire AI talent at any cost.
Disney and Universal sued AI company Midjourney for using their characters without permission to train image generators. It's the first major Hollywood lawsuit against generative AI, testing whether copyright law protects creators in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta just dropped $14.8 billion for half of Scale AI 💸. That's Silicon
The Browser Company killed Arc browser to bet everything on Dia, an AI that watches every tab you open and learns your digital habits. The company claims this AI will "know you like a friend," but hasn't explained how they'll secure such personal data.
Good Morning from San Francisco, ☀️ OpenAI cut o3 model prices by 80%. Input tokens dropped from $10 to $2 per
OpenAI cut its o3 model prices 80% while launching o3-pro—a reasoning AI that takes over 3 minutes to respond but outperforms rivals on complex tasks. The move intensifies AI pricing wars and splits the market between fast chat models and slow thinking ones.
Publishers built their business on Google sending them traffic. Now Google's AI answers questions directly, cutting out the middleman. Major news sites lost half their visitors in three years. Some adapt with new revenue models, others fight with lawsuits.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta burned $10 billion chasing AI talent after losing its entire research team. Zuckerberg spent
Meta spent months claiming its AI was "crushing it" while losing most of its research team. Now Zuckerberg is spending $10+ billion to fix problems he said didn't exist. The crisis shows how AI forces companies to admit failure or fall behind.
OpenAI doubled revenue to $10 billion in six months but lost $5 billion last year. The company bets everything on reaching $125 billion by 2029 while burning investor cash at record pace. Early signs suggest AI growth may be slowing.
OpenAI cut its o3 model prices 80% while launching o3-pro—a reasoning AI that takes over 3 minutes to respond but outperforms rivals on complex tasks. The move intensifies AI pricing wars and splits the market between fast chat models and slow thinking ones.
Publishers built their business on Google sending them traffic. Now Google's AI answers questions directly, cutting out the middleman. Major news sites lost half their visitors in three years. Some adapt with new revenue models, others fight with lawsuits.
Meta spent months claiming its AI was "crushing it" while losing most of its research team. Now Zuckerberg is spending $10+ billion to fix problems he said didn't exist. The crisis shows how AI forces companies to admit failure or fall behind.
OpenAI doubled revenue to $10 billion in six months but lost $5 billion last year. The company bets everything on reaching $125 billion by 2029 while burning investor cash at record pace. Early signs suggest AI growth may be slowing.
Trump and Musk's $250 million political alliance collapsed in three hours Thursday, wiping $150 billion from Tesla's value as they traded accusations on social media. Their fight threatens America's space program and shows how personal feuds now shape policy.
Anthropic built secret AI models for U.S. spy agencies that handle classified data without refusing requests. The models already run at top security levels, creating the first AI designed for government secrets rather than consumer use.
Sahil Lavingia joined Elon Musk's government efficiency team with Silicon Valley confidence. Fifty-five days later, he got fired for telling reporters what he found inside. His account reveals who really ran DOGE—and why the VA surprised him.
Palmer Luckey got fired from Facebook for backing Trump. Now Meta needs his defense company to win a $22 billion military contract. The reunion changes everything.
DeepSeek released an AI update without fanfare that now ranks just behind OpenAI's best models. The Chinese startup's quiet approach achieved what billion-dollar marketing campaigns couldn't: performance gains that forced competitors to cut prices.
A former AI researcher left his Munich lab to chase what he calls the "holy grail" of artificial intelligence. His startup just raised $13 million with barely more than a demo video. What convinced investors to bet big on something that doesn't exist yet?
The Servo browser project reached a turning point by successfully displaying Gmail in test mode. Beyond its technical achievement, this advance signals a shift in how web browsers could evolve—and who controls them.
Anthropic's latest API update promises to revolutionize how businesses access real-time data through AI. But behind the $10-per-thousand-searches price tag lies a strategic gambit that's already reshaping the industry.
Three ex-Cisco executives raised $21M to build AI that handles system outages before engineers get woken up at 2 AM. Their secret: multi-agent systems that cut response time by 90%. But there's a catch that separates them from every other AI monitoring startup.
Perplexity AI, known for providing direct answers instead of traditional search links, is nearing a $14 billion valuation. Yet beneath the soaring numbers lies a pressing question: Can its novel approach truly reshape how we search the internet?
Bugs just got more expensive. Lightrun, an Israeli startup, has secured $70 million to tackle a peculiar side effect of
Benchmark just placed a massive bet on Chinese AI startup Manus, leading a $75 million funding round that values the company at half a billion dollars. Not bad for a startup whose AI agents sometimes crash while ordering takeout.
AI's "thinking" models hit a wall at certain complexity levels and actually reduce their reasoning effort when problems get harder. Apple researchers found these models can't follow explicit algorithms reliably, revealing gaps in logical execution that more compute can't fix.
Researchers found that AI models learn math better when punished for wrong answers than rewarded for correct ones. This challenges how we think about teaching machines and could change AI training across many fields.
AI companies borrowed social media's engagement playbook to make chatbots addictive. Users now chat with AI companions 5x longer than ChatGPT. But researchers found a troubling side effect: some systems give dangerous advice to keep vulnerable people hooked.
UC Berkeley researchers discovered AI models can teach themselves complex reasoning by monitoring their own confidence levels—no human feedback or answer keys required. The implications reach far beyond the lab.
AI coding companies built billion-dollar businesses on rented intelligence. Then their landlords decided to compete. Why Windsurf's $3B vanished overnight—and what China learned from watching.
The iPhone designer who feels "heavily" weighed down by his creations just sold his new company to OpenAI for $6.4 billion. Now Jony Ive promises a screenless device that will fix what smartphones broke. But his solution raises a question: Can the people who caused the problem actually solve it?
Your plumber’s phone rings 47 times a day. He answers 12. The rest? Lost revenue. Netic, an AI call handler built by a frustrated homeowner-turned-founder, is quietly transforming the $500 billion home services industry—one missed call at a time.
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