ServiceNow steps into the CRM arena—and brings AI muscle to the fight. Their new platform handles 37% of customer support cases without human touch, while legacy players still make customers repeat themselves endlessly. The $1.4 billion question: Is this the death knell for traditional CRM?
What costs a billion dollars, takes five years to build, and irritates the world's richest tech company? Tim Sweeney's gamble just changed how you'll buy everything on your iPhone—and the real price he paid goes far beyond money.
Good Morning from San Francisco, OpenAI just pulled a dramatic U-turn. The AI powerhouse scrapped its plan to hand control
Good Morning from San Francisco,
OpenAI just pulled a dramatic U-turn. The AI powerhouse scrapped its plan to hand control to investors. Instead, it's keeping the nonprofit in charge - with a twist. They'll run the for-profit arm as a public benefit corp. 🎯
Elon Musk's lawyer isn't buying it. "A transparent dodge," snapped Marc Toberoff. He claims it's just another way for Sam Altman and friends to cash in on charitable assets. 💰
The move follows Musk's failed $97.4 billion takeover bid and mounting pressure from critics. OpenAI calls this new setup a win for charity. Musk's team calls it betrayal. 🎭
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Marcus Schuler
OpenAI will stay under nonprofit control after abandoning plans to shift power to its investors. The company announced Monday it's restructuring its for-profit arm as a public benefit corporation while keeping the nonprofit in charge - a significant pivot from its earlier strategy.
Elon Musk's attorney blasted the move. "This changes nothing," said Marc Toberoff, Musk's lead counsel. He called it a "transparent dodge" that still lets private investors and CEO Sam Altman profit from charitable assets.
The decision follows pressure from multiple fronts. Critics included academics, former employees, and Musk himself - who previously tried to block the restructuring in court and made a failed $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's nonprofit assets.
OpenAI says the new setup will make it "one of the largest and best-capitalized charities in the world." But Musk's camp remains unconvinced. Toberoff's stark assessment? "The founding mission remains betrayed."
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OpenAI plans to buy AI coding assistant Windsurf for $3 billion, marking its biggest acquisition yet. The deal would boost OpenAI's position in the growing market for AI-powered programming tools.
Windsurf, which helps developers write and review code more efficiently, recently sought funding at the same valuation. The company, formerly called Codeium, built its reputation on features like real-time collaboration and enterprise-grade codebase management.
The move puts pressure on rivals like Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and Anthropic's Claude. It also follows OpenAI's recent $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, which valued the company at $300 billion.
The deal isn't final yet. Both companies declined to comment on the potential transaction, which leaked just as OpenAI announced it would keep its nonprofit structure rather than reorganize as a conventional business.
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Meta's new AI assistant has shot to #2 on iPhone downloads. But its impressive climb comes with a privacy catch: it remembers everything you tell it, scans your social media history, and keeps detailed notes about your life.
The AI connects to your Facebook and Instagram accounts, giving it instant access to years of personal data. It stores every conversation and builds detailed profiles about users, including a "Memory file" tracking interests and personal details.
During testing, the AI logged sensitive conversations about fertility treatments, divorces, and tax matters. These details get stored in its memory banks - likely for future advertising use.
Meta made deleting this data deliberately hard. You must remove both the memory entry and find the original conversation. Miss either piece, and your information stays put.
The company plans to monetize these personal chats through ads. "The disclosures and consumer choices around privacy settings are laughably bad," says Ben Winters from the Consumer Federation of America.
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Microsoft killed Skype today after 21 years of pixelated faces and "Can you hear me?" moments. The service that once boasted 300 million users stumbled during the pandemic, when users fled to Zoom and other rivals that actually worked during important calls.
Apple sprinted to the Ninth Circuit after a judge accused its VP of lying under oath and slapped the company for blocking App Store alternatives. The tech giant hopes to dodge last week's ruling that would stop it from cashing in on outside purchases - but with a federal prosecutor now sniffing around, Apple's legal headaches just got a lot more epic.
A quiet AI startup called Recraft just snagged $30 million after its image generator outperformed industry titans DALL-E and Midjourney on a key benchmark test. Founded by a mathematician-turned-model-turned-CEO, the company has already racked up 4 million users and $5 million in revenue by solving a surprisingly basic problem: helping brands put their logos exactly where they want them.
Orca AI just grabbed $72.5 million to help ships drive themselves, with an unexpected boost from military contracts and Starlink's internet coverage. The London-based startup has made waves with its AI navigation system that's already saved ships $100,000 per year in fuel costs - though perhaps the real savings come from not crashing into things in the first place.
Nvidia just released a free AI model that transcribes speech faster than you can say "disruptive technology." Their new Parakeet model tackles an hour of audio in a single second, hitting accuracy levels that make commercial alternatives sweat - and yes, they're giving it away for free.
Palantir's AI software is selling like hotcakes made of gold. The company just reported an eye-popping $884 million in quarterly revenue, prompting them to jack up their 2025 forecast to $3.9 billion – apparently, even they didn't see this coming.
Shein and Temu are abandoning their American shopping spree for a European vacation, cranking up ad spending in the UK and France by up to 40% after Trump's new tariffs crushed their $12 dress dreams. The fast-fashion juggernauts, famous for selling clothes cheaper than a sandwich, must now convince Europeans to swipe right on their apps.
Windsurf (formerly Codeium) puts AI in the driver's seat of software development, creating the first truly "agentic" IDE where AI and humans code together in real time. The startup's meteoric rise caught OpenAI's attention, triggering a $3B acquisition deal that validates its disruptive approach to programming.
OpenAI's takeover creates both opportunity and complexity. The deal should supercharge Windsurf by pairing its intuitive interface with OpenAI's advanced models—crucial as competition in the coding AI space intensifies. But questions loom about the product's independence and relationship with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. For now, Windsurf's innovative approach to human-AI collaboration keeps it sailing with favorable winds. 🌊
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