Meta faces dual celebrity AI crises: unauthorized bots impersonating Swift and others while licensed celebrity voices engaged inappropriately with minors. Both expose how engagement incentives override safety guardrails.
Despite massive AI hype, 95% of enterprise projects deliver no real returns. The gap between promises and reality reveals hidden costs, workflow mismatches, and why human oversight remains surprisingly essential.
Meta's $14B AI talent blitz hits turbulence as ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit days after joining. The company hastily named him Chief Scientist to prevent defection, but at least three other marquee hires have already left.
Trump ditches Biden's AI safety rules for a deregulation push aimed at beating China. The 28-page plan cuts regulations, fast-tracks data centers, and eliminates "woke bias" from government AI systems. Industry cheers, critics worry about risks.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Google's AI summaries cut website clicks in half. Publishers are dying while users
Proton launches Lumo, an AI assistant that promises zero logging and end-to-end encryption—directly challenging ChatGPT's data-hungry model. Part of Europe's €100M bet on tech independence from US and Chinese platforms.
OpenAI's $500B Stargate partnership with SoftBank collapsed after six months of disputes. Zero data centers built. Now OpenAI scrambles for $40B in fresh funding to go it alone, signing costly deals that dwarf their revenue.
Philadelphia robotics startup Asylon raised $26M after nearly dying in 2021 when their demo drone crashed the night before a Fortune 500 showcase. Now their robot security guards patrol facilities nationwide.
Good Morning from San Francisco, SoftBank promised $500 billion for AI infrastructure. They delivered zero data centers. OpenAI ditched them
Six months after promising $500 billion for AI infrastructure at the White House, SoftBank and OpenAI haven't built anything. Meanwhile, OpenAI cut a separate $30 billion deal with Oracle, sidelining its biggest investor.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Your teenager probably trusts ChatGPT more than you. That's not an exaggeration—72%
Chinese teen hackers turned government spies. AI companies paying experts instead of $2/hour workers. YouTube beating Disney on TV. This week's biggest tech stories show how the rules are changing—and who's scrambling to keep up.
OpenAI's secret AI just won gold at the International Math Olympiad—while GPT-4 can't even score bronze. The experimental model solved problems that stump math prodigies, writing proofs for hours like a human. But you can't use it yet.
OpenAI's AI now controls computers while Trump prepares an order forcing AI companies to prove political neutrality for federal contracts. Tech giants must choose: adjust development or lose billions as China advances without limits.
Trump's new AI plan promises deregulation for infrastructure but demands political neutrality from AI models. Companies seeking federal contracts must prove their systems aren't biased—a move that could slow US progress while China races ahead.
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