Grammarly bought email app Superhuman for an undisclosed sum, part of its plan to build an AI productivity empire. With $1 billion in fresh funding, the grammar company wants to put AI agents at the center of your workday.
Cloudflare now blocks AI bots by default and lets publishers charge per scrape. With AI companies taking 17,000+ crawls per referral while Google takes just 14, the internet's biggest traffic handler is reshaping data collection rules.
Google just launched Gemma 3, the latest version of its "open" AI model. This new release packs a serious punch - it can analyze text, images, and videos while running on devices as small as your phone.
The tech giant claims Gemma 3 outsmarts rivals like Facebook's Llama and OpenAI when running on a single GPU. It's like fitting a supercomputer into a matchbox, only this one speaks 35 languages fluently.
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Google didn't skimp on safety features either. The new ShieldGemma 2 acts like an overzealous bouncer, filtering out explicit, dangerous, or violent content before it crashes the party.
The company's marketing folks are doing backflips over Gemma's previous success - apparently, developers have downloaded it over 100 million times. That's a lot of artificial intelligence floating around in the wild.
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Academics haven't been left out in the cold. Google's throwing $10,000 worth of cloud credits at researchers who want to tinker with their new toy. It's like a scholarship program for robots.
Meanwhile, debates rage on about what makes an AI model truly "open." Google's license still keeps a tight leash on what users can do with Gemma. Some might say it's about as open as a speakeasy during prohibition.
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Apple considers ditching its own AI technology for Siri, eyeing Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT instead. The potential reversal exposes Apple's struggle in the AI race and internal talent exodus.
Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers this week, escalating Zuckerberg's talent war with $100M packages. The exodus follows Meta's disappointing Llama 4 launch as the CEO personally hunts AI stars to close the innovation gap.
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