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- 01 of 10META
Meta Launches Muse Image and Muse Video
Meta introduced Muse Image, its first in-house image generation model, and Muse Video, a generative video model, both rolling out inside Meta AI, Instagram, and ads.
OUR TAKEOwning the creative pipeline means owning the ad inventory, so expect your group chat to start filling with branded AI vacation photos.
Read more → - 02 of 10KAKAO
Kakao Expands AI Assistant's Place Booking Features
Kakao is adding local recommendation and reservation booking to its AI assistant, letting users find restaurants, hotels, and services through chat.
OUR TAKEChatbots are quietly becoming the new search engine, except this one also wants your credit card.
Read more → - 03 of 10HARDWARE
DeepSeek Is Designing Its Own AI Chip
DeepSeek is reportedly building its own inference chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, according to sources familiar with the project.
OUR TAKEIf you cannot buy the shovels, you start forging your own. Geopolitical supply chains just got another layer of irony.
Read more → - 04 of 10ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Brings Claude Cowork to Mobile and Web
Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile apps and web, starting with Max subscribers, so tasks can start on a desktop and finish on a phone.
OUR TAKEAgents are everywhere except the desktop app that launched them. The real test is whether your phone will approve things at 3 a.m.
Read more → - 05 of 10SAFETY
AI Companies Retreat From Safety Pledges
A Future of Life Institute report says major AI labs have weakened key voluntary safety commitments even as their models continue to grow more powerful.
OUR TAKESelf-regulation works great until someone puts it on a quarterly report.
Read more → - 06 of 10STARTUPS
AI Law Startup Norm Raises $120M at Unicorn Valuation
Norm, an AI-native legal software startup, raised $120 million at a valuation above $1 billion to automate legal research and workflows.
OUR TAKELawyers billing by the hour are now the training data for the thing that replaces them.
Read more → - 07 of 10DEFENSE
U.S. Autonomous Ground Vehicles Deployed in Ukraine
Forterra says more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been operating in Ukraine for nine months, the largest known combat deployment of U.S. autonomous ground vehicles.
OUR TAKEThe battlefield is now a real-world test track, and the liability waiver is just called a war zone.
Read more → - 08 of 10SPACEXAI
xAI Officially Rebrands as SpaceXAI
Elon Musk's xAI has officially been renamed SpaceXAI, five months after merging the AI and space companies under one corporate umbrella.
OUR TAKEWhen you run out of sci-fi names, just glue the old ones together and call it a neocloud.
Read more → - 09 of 10SAP
SAP Puts 100 Million Euros Behind AI Agent Rollouts
SAP is offering up to 100 million euros in project funding to help existing customers deploy AI agents in production, with up to 100,000 euros per deployment.
OUR TAKEBig ERP is now paying you to finally use the AI feature nobody asked for.
Read more → - 10 of 10SOCIAL
Reddit Tries to Fight AI Spam With More AI
Reddit is rolling out more automated detection to clamp down on spammy AI-generated content, after licensing huge amounts of user data to AI companies.
OUR TAKEUsing AI to police the AI you sold your data to is the ouroboros of platform business models.
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