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Sources describe efforts to build and use internal AI tools at Meta, including Mark Zuckerberg building a CEO agent to help him do his job better — Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX — Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence …
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Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store “monopolistic” — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook commended Chinese developers and the company's partners in the country … | Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP — Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using — An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Profile of John Ternus, likely Tim Cook successor, who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, is expanding his domain within Apple, and his visibility to the public — Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more — It took nine minutes to order my dinner, but it still feels like the future. … I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation …
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market — The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets
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| Reuters: |
Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat — Tencent(0700.HK) launched a tool on Sunday to integrate its WeChat messaging platform with the OpenClaw agent …
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen — Follow Peter Kafka … - It's easy to dunk on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta for burning $80 billion on the metaverse and then moving on.| Yue Wang / Forbes: |
A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year — Huawei-backed Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology makes photonic chips used in optical interconnects in AI data centers.| Shubham Agarwal / The Guardian: |
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places — Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash| Reuters: |
Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder — Italian majority-state-owned national postal service Poste Italiane (PST.MI) said on Sunday it was launching a cash-and-share offer …
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