Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B+ valuation
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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS. X: @ashleymayer . Bluesky: @fahadhumayun.com , @t...
Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it processed ~$100M in trades and called the mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet
Alex Heath / Sources : Bluesky: @alexeheath.com See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Alex Heath / @alexeheath.com : did a very NYC tech thing last night sources.news/p/election-n... See also Mediagazer
Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glasses division
New details on Evan Spiegel's quest to win the AR race. Also: this week on ACCESS. — ∙ Paid — Snap is in talks to raise at least … X: @alexeheath . LinkedIn: Alex Heath X: Alex Heath / @alexeheat...
Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions
available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company was apple. absolutely ...
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. @signulll : jesus christ cupertino is probably celebrating harder than mountain view right now. if you're tim cook, you have to buy cha...
Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more
Why Amazon AGI Labs chief David Luan thinks solving agents is the next ‘S-curve’ for AI. Bluesky: @prietschka . Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social . Threads: @alexheath . X: @rohitprasadai . LinkedIn: Ju...
Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action
This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. Becca Monaghan / indy100 : Elon Musk has dropped the Trump feud for now - he's falling out with another CEO instead Forbes : Elon Musk Says...
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd
ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “Corporate Beige Zomb...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...