Apple begs Google for AI help

🤝 Apple Admits Siri is Cooked, Pays Google $1B to Fix It

• Apple's dropping $1 billion a year to rent Google's Gemini AI because Siri is about as smart as a 2011 chatbot. This is their "temporary solution" until Apple's own AI is ready (translation: never).

• Even the world's richest company can't build decent AI alone. Siri's about to become Google Assistant with extra steps. (source)

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🇨🇳 Nvidia CEO: "China Already Won, We're Just in Denial"

• Jensen Huang just told America that China's going to win the AI race. His solution? "Win by racing ahead" (brilliant strategy, Jensen).

• When the guy selling all the GPUs says you're losing, maybe it's time to panic. Or buy more GPUs. Preferably from him. (source)

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☠️ 350 AI Leaders Sign "We Might Kill Everyone" Letter

• OpenAI and DeepMind CEOs signed a letter saying AI extinction risk should be treated like nuclear war. They then went back to building more powerful AI.

• The people building AGI are simultaneously warning it might end humanity. This is fine. (source)

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📉 Tech Stocks Wobble, Everyone Remembers 2000

• AI stocks dipped and suddenly everyone realized tech is 36% of the S&P 500 - higher than the dot-com bubble. Cisco investors from 2000 are still underwater.

• Just because AI is revolutionary doesn't mean buying NVDA at 100x earnings is smart. But you'll do it anyway. (source)

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🚀 OpenAI Hits 1 Million Business Customers, Becomes Fastest Growing Ever

• OpenAI now has 1 million paying businesses including T-Mobile and Morgan Stanley. ChatGPT Enterprise seats grew 9x in a year.

• Turns out businesses love replacing employees with chatbots. Shocking development. (source)

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💰 Some Company You've Never Heard Of Gets $1.17B

• Vast Data just scored $1.17 billion from CoreWeave to store AI training data. Yes, that's billion with a B.

• The real AI gold rush isn't building models - it's selling extremely expensive hard drives to people building models. (source)

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👻 Snapchat Gets AI Search Nobody Asked For

• Perplexity is paying Snap $400 million to add AI search to Snapchat. Because what teens really want is verifiable answers while sending disappearing nudes.

• Perplexity gets access to Gen Z, Snap gets to pretend it's still relevant. Everyone loses except shareholders. (source)

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🔬 AI Does 6 Months of Science in One Day, Scientists Panic

• Edison Scientific's Kosmos AI can complete half a year of research in 24 hours by reading papers and generating hypotheses.

• PhD students just became obsolete. Time to pivot to prompt engineering for science. (source)

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🏝️ Google Building Secret AI Base on Christmas Island

• Google's constructing an AI data center on a remote Australian island for "monitoring naval activity" and "military command and control."

• Nothing says "don't be evil" like building military AI infrastructure on tropical islands. (source)

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✈️ Delta Using AI to Charge You More, Congress Mad

• Lawmakers are investigating Delta for using AI to detect when you desperately need a flight, then jacking up your specific price.

• AI-powered price discrimination is here. Your desperation is now a pricing signal. (source)

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🤖 Microsoft's AI Agents Can't Even Order Pizza

• Microsoft tested AI agents in a fake marketplace. They got confused by too many options and were easily manipulated.

• The "agentic future" can't handle a dinner menu. Maybe hold off on giving them nuclear codes. (source)

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💡 Startup Raises $50M to Make AI Weird Again

• Inception got $50 million to build code/text AI using "diffusion" (the image generator technique) instead of transformers.

• Someone's finally trying something different. It'll either revolutionize AI or burn through $50M discovering why nobody else did this. (source)

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📌 Pinterest: "Why Pay for AI When Open Source Exists?"

• Pinterest CEO revealed they're using free open-source models for visual search at a "fraction of the cost" of GPT-4.

• Turns out you don't need OpenAI's prices to identify pictures of mason jar wedding decorations. (source)

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🗺️ Google Maps Now Talks Like a Human (Kind Of)

• Maps is getting Gemini AI for conversational navigation: "Turn right after the Starbucks" instead of "Turn right in 500 feet."

• Finally, directions that sound like they're from an actual person. Who's also terrible at giving directions. (source)

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❤️ Tinder Wants to Scan Your Entire Camera Roll

• Tinder's testing AI that analyzes all your photos to learn your personality and interests for "better matches."

• Nothing says "find love" like giving a dating app permission to judge your entire photo history. (source)

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❄️ AI Chips So Hot They Need Metal Stacks to Not Melt

• Alloy Enterprises invented solid copper cooling plates because AI chips generate more heat than a crypto mining farm in Texas.

• We're literally hitting the laws of thermodynamics trying to make ChatGPT faster. (source)

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💍 $249 Ring That Records Your Whispers (Not Creepy At All)

• The Stream Ring captures your "whispered thoughts" and turns them into notes. Because talking to yourself needed a hardware upgrade.

• Silicon Valley's quest to make us talk to devices continues. This time on your finger. (source)

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📲 Google Adds Yet Another AI Button to Chrome

• Chrome mobile now has a dedicated "AI Mode" button because apparently the search bar wasn't enough.

• The AI feature arms race has devolved into who can add the most buttons to their app. (source)