Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller expresses confidence in Sam Altman's leadership at OpenAI while cautioning that as AGI development...

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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

Snap announced that its $400 million partnership deal with Perplexity AI, which would have integrated the AI search...

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Is xAI a neocloud now?
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Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's primary business focus may be shifting toward data center infrastructure development rather than solely training...

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Google shuts down Project Mariner
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Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has shut down Project Mariner, an experimental AI feature that performed web-based tasks, on May 4th, 2026. The...

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CopilotKit Introduces Enterprise Intelligence Platform That Gives Agentic Applications Persistent Memory Across Sessions and Devices
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CopilotKit Introduces Enterprise Intelligence Platform That Gives Agentic Applications Persistent Memory Across Sessions and Devices

CopilotKit introduces an enterprise intelligence platform that adds persistent memory capabilities to agentic...

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OpenAI Launches Training Spec to Boost Large-Scale AI
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OpenAI Launches Training Spec to Boost Large-Scale AI

OpenAI has launched a training specification designed to improve GPU performance as artificial intelligence compute...

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How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
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How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

The article discusses David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto Czar, and reports that the Trump administration is...

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OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks
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OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks

OpenAI partnered with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to develop MRC, an open source networking protocol...

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Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude
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Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude

Anthropic is acquiring full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center with 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300+...

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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird

Anthropic has signed a deal with Elon Musk's xAI to use computing resources for its AI operations. The partnership...

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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

The article discusses the public revelation of negotiations between Elon Musk and OpenAI founders regarding Musk's...

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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

A new study reveals that using AI assistants for even brief periods can negatively impact cognitive abilities and...

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Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
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Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied about safety standards for a new AI...

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SAP Plans to Turn Spreadsheet AI Startup Into Top Frontier Lab
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SAP Plans to Turn Spreadsheet AI Startup Into Top Frontier Lab

SAP is planning to develop a spreadsheet AI startup into a major frontier AI lab, demonstrating the German enterprise...

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SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
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SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

SpaceX is considering building a semiconductor factory called 'Terafab' in Texas with an initial investment of $55...

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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, is valued at $45B in its first investment round after gaining prominence in early 2025 with...

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I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
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I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes

Anthropic announced a new feature called "dreaming" that allows AI agents to sort through "memories" at its developer...

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Google speeds up Gemma 4 threefold with multi-token prediction
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Google speeds up Gemma 4 threefold with multi-token prediction

Google has released multi-token prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 open model that significantly accelerate text...

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Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources
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Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources

Google has updated its AI search feature to incorporate quotes and information from Reddit and other web forums and...

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