Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta's $72 billion talent splurge hits turbulence. ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao nearly bailed
Meta's $72B AI talent hunt is imploding. ChatGPT co-creator nearly quit within a week, forcing tripled compensation. Elite recruits defecting to rivals while existing employees demand parity. The secretive TBD Lab creates new corporate castes.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raised $2 billion for her six-month-old startup. That broke every
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati raised $2 billion for her new AI company, shattering every seed funding record. Her six-month-old startup is now worth $10 billion without shipping a product. The deal shows how the exodus of top talent from OpenAI is creating well-funded competitors.
Tesla launched its first robotaxi service in Austin with human monitors still in every car. The limited rollout to handpicked influencers reveals the gap between Musk's autonomous promises and current reality, while Waymo operates thousands of truly driverless vehicles across multiple cities.
Trump Media announces a $400 million stock buyback despite posting $400 million in losses last year on just $3.6 million in revenue. The company sits on $3 billion in cash, raising questions about whether returning money to shareholders makes sense.
Good Morning from San Francisco, 🌉 OpenAI scrubbed its $6.5 billion Jony Ive acquisition videos after a judge sided with
Mark Zuckerberg just paid $14.3 billion to hire one person. Meta's desperate shopping spree for AI talent reveals how far behind the company has fallen—and creates an awkward problem for competitors who must now choose sides.
Programming computers in English sounds impossible. But Andrej Karpathy built working apps without knowing code, using only natural language prompts. He calls it Software 3.0. These AI systems think like humans, complete with superhuman memory and distinctly human mistakes.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are pushing Congress to ban states from regulating AI for 10 years. California just released a detailed framework for AI oversight. The clash could determine who controls AI rules nationwide.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Musk's xAI burns $1 billion monthly 🔥 while dodging pollution lawsuits in Memphis. The
ChatGPT's crawlers abandon slow websites before they can respond, generating HTTP 499 timeout errors that cost sites visibility in AI search results. The shift forces a return to server-side rendering as JavaScript becomes invisible to AI bots.
Chinese AI startup MiniMax just trained a frontier model for $534,700 - a fraction of what competitors spend. Their open-source M1 beats DeepSeek while using 75% less computing power. The breakthrough suggests advanced AI no longer requires massive budgets.
MIT researchers monitored students' brains while they wrote essays with ChatGPT. The AI users showed weaker neural activity and couldn't quote their own work. When they switched back to writing alone, their brains stayed weakened.
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