Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
Google snatched Windsurf's CEO and co-founder in a $2.4B talent raid after OpenAI's $3B acquisition collapsed. Microsoft's partnership constraints are backfiring, handing wins to competitors in the escalating AI talent wars.
Musk promised truth-seeking AI. When Grok 4 tackles politics, it searches Musk's posts first. Tests show 54 of 64 citations came from him. Accident or intent? The answer matters for every AI system we build.
Stanford researchers found that Meta's newest AI model can reproduce 42% of Harry Potter word-for-word—ten times more than earlier versions. The findings complicate copyright lawsuits and reveal a troubling trend in AI development.
Anthropic says multiple AI agents working together beat single models by 90%. The catch? They use 15x more computing power. This trade-off between performance and cost might reshape how we build AI systems for complex tasks.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta's AI app turned users into accidental exhibitionists. 😬 People shared medical questions, legal
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
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.
Good Morning from San Francisco, ☀️ OpenAI cut o3 model prices by 80%. Input tokens dropped from $10 to $2 per
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.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Apple researchers just shattered AI's reasoning hype. Those fancy "thinking" models
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.
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