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AI boom likened to fracking as $200B pours into startups
The Financial Times op‑ed argues the current AI surge mirrors the fracking era, highlighting massive capital inflows and speculative fervor. AI startups attracted over $200 billion in 2023 funding, and compute demand now rivals the energy intensity of oil extraction.
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By the numbers: Microsoft commits $10B AI investment in Japan
The episode explores the dark side of AI, highlighting a genome‑trained language model that can design a super‑virus and debating whether AI copies of ourselves should make life‑or‑death decisions. It also covers quirky AI culture, from a woman marrying a ChatGPT persona to a Russian robot’s on‑stage tumble and MIT’s retraction of a flawed cybersecurity paper. Insights from a $1 billion AI founder reveal the humble, pizza‑fuelled origins of early AI, while a futurologist outlines eight surprising humanoid‑robot applications expected by 2040.
The Marketing Metrics That Will Matter Most in the Age of AI Agents When AI agents become part of the decision making chain, marketing metrics shift. This article covers which metrics matter most when you’re marketing to machines and humans...
Many people still believe you need to publish research to succeed in AI. That might’ve been true a few years ago, but things have changed 👇 I’ve done research during my Master’s and PhD. Most of my work never made it to...
Stack Overflow wants to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format.
Zoox is getting closer to a full launch of its robotaxi service in San Francisco. Last month, the Amazon-owned company started allowing select riders to hail its toaster-shaped, four-passenger vehicles for the first time. And today, Zoox is finally inviting...
In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI...
OpenAI products including ChatGPT and Sora are experiencing major outages.
Cloudflare, a networking company that provides DDoS protection and internet content delivery services for many companies around the globe, is working to fix a major outage that’s taking down sites across the web. Users are running into an error message...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The State of AI: How war will be changed forever —Helen Warrell & James O’Donnell It is July...
EvE Bio has released the “pharmome map,” the largest public drug‑target interaction dataset to date. It measures 1,397 FDA‑approved small‑molecule drugs against nuclear receptors, GPCRs, and protein kinases using standardized high‑throughput assays. The dataset is openly accessible, refreshed bi‑monthly, and...
You can use ChatGPT for free, but depending on how much you want to use it, it could be time to upgrade to a paid-for version.
Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options, or managing business finances.
It's not hard to understand the AI future Microsoft is betting billions on - a world where computers understand what you're saying and do things for you. It's right there in the ads for the latest Copilot PCs, where people...
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and founder of Baseten, one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI inference ecosystem. Tuhin shares the real story behind Baseten’s rise and how the market finally...
Bezos launches $6.2B engineering AI, Europe eases tech rules, Anthropic finds LLM introspection gaps, Google updates AI weather & travel, AI scales podcasts.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1, a controversial new AI app is bringing people back from the dead, and there's a big debate in AI about very different belief systems. On this week's episode, Paul and Mike go deeper on those topics and...
Wondering how Windows 11's AI agents will work? Microsoft explains how 'agent workspaces' are lightweight and secure.
Databricks is said to be in talks to raise a new round of funding just a few months after its last fundraise, which valued the company at $100 billion.
Explaining BM25 in one post. BM25: How relevant is this document to this query? 3 parts: > IDF: how rare a query token is across all documents. >TF: how frequent query token is across all documents. > Length normalization: how long is current doc compared...
In this episode, host explores how AI is reshaping human behavior and its implications for content marketing, featuring insights from marketing strategist Mark Schaefer. Schaefer explains that AI influences decision‑making, attention spans, and communication styles, urging marketers to adapt their...
We’re living through a moment where AI confidence is soaring, but the foundations needed to support that confidence are still worryingly uneven. I shared my views with DIGIT last week about new IDC findings, and one insight in particular has...
Is AI supposed to make things easier… so why does it feel like chaos? You’re not alone. In this special episode of Leveraging AI, we invite you into the room where the real conversations happen — our live, unfiltered Friday AI...
The article outlines ten practical do’s and don’ts for using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, emphasizing safe and productive applications. It recommends using chatbots for brainstorming, proofreading, tutoring, code generation, and entertainment while warning against cheating, accepting...
In this episode, Nick Masca, Head of Data Science for Growth & Personalisation at Marks & Spencer, discusses the data‑driven challenges retail and e‑commerce leaders face, emphasizing change‑management over classic digital transformation. He highlights obstacles in applying data tools to...
5 Business Trends Every Company Must Prepare for in 2026 In 2026, Businesses will face major shifts driven by #AIagents , #AI -enabled products, #cybersecurity pressure, #ESG realignment and a growing focus on #AIskills . Companies that prepare for these...
Google has launched Antigravity, an agent‑first coding platform that lets development teams build and run autonomous coding agents powered by Gemini 3 and other leading LLMs such as Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 and open‑source GPT models. The service is now in public preview...
The episode examines Jeff Bezos’s surprising return to an executive role as co‑CEO of the new AI venture Project Prometheus, highlighting how his involvement signals a major shift in the AI startup landscape. Hosts discuss the strategic implications for both...
Microsoft unveiled Agent 365 at its Ignite conference, positioning it as a unified control plane that delivers observability, governance, and security for AI agents across the enterprise. The platform supports both Microsoft‑built and third‑party agents—such as those from Adobe, Databricks,...
The episode reveals an insider leak suggesting OpenAI’s operating costs are being eclipsed by Microsoft’s compute fees, with GPU demand driving expenses sharply upward. Hosts discuss how these rising bills could strain budgets and potentially force OpenAI to renegotiate terms...
A super PAC called Leading the Future, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and other tech leaders, has pledged over $100 million to oppose New York Assembly member Alex Bores, the chief sponsor of the state’s bipartisan RAISE Act that...
VLA's are like LLMs, but trained off of videos. I call them world models, because I don't like acronyms, but either way, they mean robots are getting smarter fast. The researchers I hung out with last week say that robots...
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved...
Google has moved to dismiss a $15 million defamation lawsuit filed by anti‑corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who alleges the company’s AI falsely linked him to sexual‑assault accusations and white‑nationalist ties. Starbuck previously sued Meta over AI‑generated claims that he participated...
LLMs often sound oddly alike. @The_GridAI turned that idea into a fun little challenge with 10,000 $ (!!!) in rewards for the top 3 players. The rules: Two replies pop up, you tell if it is the same model. 🧵↓ https://t.co/ftbGvKu3Wx
@AndyMasley @Leonardonclt @dinabass “More than 160 new AI data centers have sprung up across the US in the past three years in places with high competition for scarce water resources, according to a Bloomberg News analysis…That’s a 70% increase from...
The guide walks users through the ChatGPT interface on both mobile and web, detailing how to access account settings, upgrade to Plus, and connect services like Gmail. It explains where to find chat history, how to enable temporary chats, and...
The notion that AGI would have infinite returns has been used to justify investment far above expected returns (by 10x-100x) for technology that is neither AGI nor on the path to AGI
I use Typeless daily on my Mac, and it's become the only dictation tool I trust. I tried many others, but none of them stuck. And now @typelessdotcom just launched on Product Hunt 🎉 Pls show them some love for the launch 🫶 https://t.co/4miuD4BGBT
OpenAI announced it will finally let current and former employees donate eligible equity to charity, ending an 18‑month delay. The program could enable staff with six‑figure equity grants from 2019 to contribute millions, though a short decision window and advisory...
As students navigate information overload in clinical settings, we empower educators and learners with trusted, evidence-based resources and responsible AI. https://t.co/5EVW6ZkJ8P #healthcare #clinicians #Nurses #AI #Elsevier
This guy literally made ChatGPT stop giving him generic advice and it's like having a $500/hr strategist https://t.co/xPZ4dNV2A9
Google unveiled WeatherNext 2, an AI‑powered weather forecasting model that is eight times faster and more accurate than its predecessor, achieving 99.9% accuracy on variables such as temperature and wind. The model uses a Functional Generative Network to generate hundreds...
AI-induced #psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together! https://t.co/e59cn6rF2k #hallucination #artificial_intelligence #AI
My first reader now is Grok. (It watches my videos and reads my posts and decides whether to distribute them to you). So which startups does Grok want me to interview next? Answer: https://t.co/LPuhKb4Iet Thanks Grok, working on this list!
In this episode, host Jason Stoughton talks with Vijoy Pandey about the emerging "Internet of AI Agents," exploring how interoperable agents can break down siloed systems and enable seamless collaboration across the tech ecosystem. Pandey draws on his experience at...
The rate reduction in price per unit of intelligence has been thing I've most consistently underestimated the past couple of years. 300x in a year is nuts!
Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead https://t.co/7MFq84cVH0 #startupstories #StartupLife #Startups #AI #artificial_intelligence @altiamkabir @codewithimanshu @Eli_Krumova @JagersbergKnut
KlingAI is rad. Their Black Friday offer dropped with 50% OFF on all plans. + the upgraded @Kling_ai 2.5 Turbo Start and End frames give you clearer scene control + smoother creative flow 🔥 What I LOVE about Kling: → Easy to setup → Flexible →...
New Grok. Less slop. This is important because this new model will be running the algorithm here on X soon. Or at least a lightweight version therein. And it will be running so many other things, particularly Tesla's Robotaxi network....
Leaders are discovering the hard way that “plug-and-play AI” is mostly a myth. The tech may look polished, but the real work begins where the glossy demo ends. This new episode of AI in Action breaks down why so many...
