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/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25845826/2194584986.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "OpenAI’s Project Stargate sparks reactions from Microsoft, Meta CEOs")
Source: The Verge “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” Rarely does a one-liner so perfectly capture the state of the moment. Here, you have Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying he’s “not in the details” about Stargate, the supposedly multi-hundred-billion AI infrastructure project driven by his marquee investment, OpenAI. Nadella not being…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25697385/STK071_APPLE_E.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades")
Source: The Verge Apple is making an executive change to try and improve its AI efforts and Siri. Kim Vorrath, who recently helped get the Vision Pro software out the door and has been at Apple for 36 years, has been brought over to Apple’s artificial intelligence and machine learning division and will serve as…
Source: Venture Beat Season 4 of a TV show is not something I write about very often, given my focus is video games. But Season 4 of Mythic Quest is another matter. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25845767/A250015_large_2.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Audi’s lifted Q6 E-tron Off-Road concept is ready for winter driving")
Source: The Verge Audi has revealed a new dual-motor electric off-road vehicle concept based on the Q6 E-tron that looks ready for a snowpocalypse. The automaker built a working prototype that lifts the vehicle by 6.3 inches and widens it by 9.8 inches, giving it a stance that wouldn’t be out of place if it…
Source: Venture Beat OpenAI used its own o1-preview and o1-mini models to test whether additional inference time compute protected against various attacks. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25489921/STK022_ELON_MUSK_CVIRGINIA_E.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’")
Source: The Verge Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.” Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned…
Source: Venture Beat Y Combinator’s fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raises $2M seed round to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers, reaching $50K MRR in 8 weeks while rejecting the trend of AI sales rep replacement. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25406817/STK051_TIKTOK_CVirginia_B.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "TikTok still isn’t in the App Store")
Source: The Verge Nearly a week after it was removed, the TikTok app is still missing from Apple and Google’s app stores. The app was pulled from both stores after the US’ ban-or-divest law went into effect last weekend, which resulted in the service going dark within the United States. While TikTok came back online…
Source: Venture Beat Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn, and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model’s ascent. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25426542/8A0A1239.jpeg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Here are the best robot vacuum deals right now")
Source: The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an…
