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AI can cost more than human workers now

When AI labs raise prices, big spending on AI could shift from a flex to a liability.

Some startups are tokenmaxxing. Others tell us it's a 'stupid' trend that will die out.

Business Insider asked tech founders about the "tokenmaxxing" trend. Some are spending big and introducing minimum AI token quotas for engineers.

Can Sam Altman be trusted? Elon Musk wants a jury to answer Big Tech's hottest question.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman asks jurors to dig into grievances that stretch back to OpenAI's founding.

A robotics CEO sees a 'moral imperative' to build an army of humanoids

Foundation sent humanoid robots to Ukraine for a demonstration. CEO Sankaet Pathak said that in 5 to 10 years, they will be able to extract targets.

How CEOs and Large Enterprises can Unlock the Power of AI

Ali Alkhafaji, CEO at Apply Digital, explores what truly separates AI leaders from laggards and how organisations can balance ambition with execution

A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

The Saline, Michigan campus is huge. It will generate 1 gigawatt of electricity, making it one of the largest data centers in the country.

Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.

OpenAI’s super PAC might be funding a ‘news’ site staffed by AI reporters.

Nathan Calvin, from advocacy group Encode, received an interview request from Michael Chen, a reporter at The Wire by Acutus. But it turns out Chen probably doesn’t exist, and most of the “reporters” at the suspiciously pro-AI Acutus appear to be bots. It’s just the tip of a financial trail that appears to lead to OpenAI.

Stream your slop while you drive.

Suno is available on Android Auto, and CarPlay support is in the works. Now you can stream all your illicit AI covers on your road trip from Hell. According to a post in the Suno Discord, features are limited, with only search, library and explore support, plus playback control.

Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha

Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl’s owner, Schwarz Group. With the blessing of their governments, the companies intend to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by American players.

Analog horror masters Local 58 take on our modern AI apocalypse.

The Thought Research Initiative is a known entity in the Local 58 universe. But a new video and website bring the TRI from the 80s into the 2000s, with its new breakthrough — Qualiaform Intuition. It brags that it’s “taught, not trained” and “genuine, not generative,” hinting at the horror behind the scenes.

Sinceerly Uses AI to Make Your AI Writing Sound Less Like You’re Using AI.

Developer Dan Horwitz told Gizmodo his anti-Grammarly is indeed satire. But it’s also still a functional Chrome extension that promises to banish the emdash, erase annoying phrases that are dead giveaways of AI, and even introduce some typos. But maybe you should just write that email yourself to begin with.