OpenAI revenue grows 100% from a year go, hits $12b run rate, 700 million ChatGPT weekly active users - The Information

A conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, the two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment. - MIT Technology Review

OpenAI to be anchor tenant for Norway 230MW "Stargate Norway" data center - Bloomberg

I asked ChatGPT's Study Mode if I should buy a car. The questions it asked me back convinced me to stay car-free. - Business Insider

OpenAI-Challenger Manus Preps Big Upgrade to Main Agent Platform - Bloomberg

China bets on winning the AI application layer - The Washington Post

China summons Nvidia over backdoor security concerns with AI chips - The Washington Post

China showcased many of its initiatives for AI self-sufficiency and independence from the US at Shanghai's World AI Conference, as it invests heavily in power generation and skills training - The Wall Street Journal

Trump might back off tough technology controls on China towards a more Biden-like approach as Nvidia and Big Tech sway him - Semafor

Big Tech is big mad as Europe's AI crackdown comes into force this week - The Register

Who really benefits from the AI boom? - TechCrunch

AI and low code and vibe-coding throughout the enterprise lets business units move fast vs waiting for central IT, but carries risks - TechRadar

The perils of the AI-first, vibe-coded startup … code that humans can't debug, and then your API coder goes AWOL due to usage caps - Inc.

LangChain support for building your own deep research agent - LangChain Blog

LangChain’s Align Evals closes the evaluator trust gap with prompt-level calibration - VentureBeat

Anthropic's CEO says massive salary changes could 'destroy' company culture - Business Insider

Meta shares jump on strong results as Zuckerberg sets out ‘superintelligence’ goals - Financial Times

Mark Zuckerberg promises you can trust him with superintelligent AI - The Verge

If you feel the need to insist you are trustworthy, you aren't.

Microsoft profits soar almost 25% on boom in cloud computing revenues - Financial Times

ARM and Qualcomm didn’t impress

xAI teases 'spicy' Grok video generator, says you have to pay to join the waitlist - NBC News

Inside the relentless race to build data centers - ig.ft.com

What happens if we spend $3tn on data centres no one needs? Morgan Stanley projects that much spending, possible overbuilding. - Financial Times

Amazon funded a streamer that lets you make and share your own AI-generated shows. - Business Insider

Amazon is blocking agents, will not be disintermediated. - The Information

CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They'll Be Replaced With AI, Buys $75m Jet - Futurism

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Is AI Killing Entry-Level Jobs? Here’s What We Know - Bloomberg

Will your job survive AI? Nah, you're cooked - Harvard Gazette

Tech CEOs may point to AI for layoffs, but the reality is complicated - Fast Company

Ramp corporate credit card raised $500m to build AI agents - ramp.com

NSF announces $100 million investment for 5 National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes to secure American leadership in AI - NSF - National Science Foundation

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in AI, expresses regret for not recognizing the dangers of AI sooner, says Hassabis gets it - The Economic Times

Google: We will sign the EU AI Code of Practice. - Google

Google AlphaEarth enables near real-time global environmental monitoring - VentureBeat

The tiny Hierarchical Reasoning Model mimics the brain's structure to solve complex tasks in a single pass — no internet-scale pretraining. - TechRepublic

$150 for clinical health care reasoning foundation model - Pulse 2.0

AI physical therapy via an app? - the Guardian

4 AI business models: Product-Only w/AI integration, Product + Embedded Engineering (co-creation with customers for specialized solutions), Full-Stack AI Services (delivering outcomes rather than just tools), and Roll-Up + AI (acquiring traditional businesses and enhancing them with AI). - Forbes

Uber Eats will use generative AI to rewrite menu descriptions, enhance food photos, and add live order chat with restaurants - The Verge

If we program AI agents with a conscience, they could behave more cooperatively, much like humans do. - Science News

Stanford unveiled holographic AR glasses using AI-optimized waveguides, promising headset-free mixed-reality visuals that pass the 'visual Turing test' and hop over the uncanny valley - ZDNET

If robocars are sometimes remotely operated, how hard could it be for hackers to take control? If we let all cars talk to each other electronically, could hackers trigger mayhem? - Hacker Noon

Voice actors push back aagainst AI dubbing experiments by Netflix, startups like Audio Innovation Lab and Flawless AI aim to enhance efficiency and lip-sync accuracy but still rely on human voice actors - Reuters

Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis - Pitchfork

AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Existential Crisis of Confidence on TikTok - 404 Media

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