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Samsung's potential $500 million investment in Perplexity AI to power Galaxy devices signals a crucial shift toward AI diversity and could finally give consumers alternatives to Google's dominance.

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Samsung May Incorporate Perplexity's AI Tech in Its Phones

The most important tech partnership of 2025 might be happening right under our noses, disguised as just another corporate deal. Samsung's reported investment talks with Perplexity AI represent far more than a simple business arrangement—they signal...

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Google's AI Edge Gallery app finally gives users control over their AI experience by running models locally on Android devices, marking a crucial shift toward privacy-first artificial intelligence.

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Google Released an App That Lets You Run AI Models Locally

The revolution started with a quiet GitHub release. No fanfare, no keynote presentation, no breathless tech blogger proclamations about "the future...

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AI-powered review and social media analysis for advertising is turning every human interaction into a data point for targeting, bankrupting the social element that made these platforms worthwhile in the first place.

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Meta Plans to Replace Humans with AI to Assess Privacy Risks

Remember when you could post a photo of your terrible Thai takeout without having Thai restaurant ads haunt your feed for weeks? Those days are dead,...

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Meta's nuclear deal promises clean AI power by 2047, but with nuclear plants averaging 102% cost overruns and 7-year delays, this

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Meta's Nuclear Fantasy: Why Big Tech's AI Energy Solution Is a $20 Billion Hallucination

Mark Zuckerberg just made a bet that would make even the most optimistic venture capitalist wince. Meta's 20-year nuclear deal with Constellation...

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Perplexity Labs transforms ideas into reality in 10 minutes—from dashboards to web apps. Here's why this AI productivity revolution matters for smart marketers who want teams that actually work.

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Perplexity Labs Actually Legit (i.e., not AI Posturing)?

We've been waiting for the Jetsons future since the Kennedy administration, and frankly, we're tired of being disappointed by "revolutionary" AI...

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BDO just dropped a billion-dollar mic on the professional services world—and honestly, it's about time someone made a statement this loud.

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BDO Announces a Billion Dollar AI Strategy Investment

While smaller firms are still debating whether ChatGPT is worth the $20 monthly subscription, BDO announced they're investing over $1 billion in AI...

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The app flags Chinese human rights violations but refuses to criticize the government directly, demonstrating systematic bias that threatens global information freedom and demands urgent media literacy responses.

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DeepSeek's new Model Calls 'Free Speech in AI' Into Question

Let's start with the most damning evidence of DeepSeek's Orwellian programming. The AI model flags Xinjiang camps as human rights violations but...

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RFK Jr.'s AI-generated health report citing fake studies exposes the urgent need for AI oversight.

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MAHA Report Fabricated Studies - is it AI's Fault?

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who still believes artificial...

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Oracle's $40 billion Nvidia GB200 chip purchase for Texas data center highlights AI's massive environmental footprint.

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Oracle's $40B Nvidia Deal Raises Critical Environmental Questions for AI's Future

Oracle's announcement of a $40 billion investment in 400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips for a Texas data center represents one of the largest technology...

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: OpenAI's $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's device startup promises

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OpenAI's $6.5B Jony Ive Acquisition

Let's start with the math that doesn't add up. OpenAI just paid $6.5 billion for a one-year-old startup with 55 employees—that's roughly $118 million...

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Telegram's $300M partnership with Elon Musk's xAI brings Grok's notorious misinformation problems to a platform already drowning in extremist content.

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The Telegram-xAI Disaster Waiting to Happen

You take the internet's most notorious breeding ground for conspiracy theories, hate speech, and criminal activity, then hand it an AI assistant...

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DeepSeek quietly upgraded its R1 reasoning model, continuing China's streak of efficient, open-source AI breakthroughs.

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DeepSeek's Silent R1 Upgrade Proves China Is Leading AI Innovation

While American tech executives obsess over coal-powered data centers and billion-dollar infrastructure spending, Chinese startup DeepSeek just...

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The company with the worst privacy track record just became your AI overlord.

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Meta AI Hits One Billion Users

Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly active users, and if you're not terrified, you haven't been paying...

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The New York Times licenses content to Amazon for AI training while simultaneously suing OpenAI for copyright violation.

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New York Times Signs AI Deal With Amazon While Suing OpenAI

There's something beautifully absurd about The New York Times announcing its first AI licensing deal with Amazon on the same day their lawyers are...

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within 5 years. Meanwhile, Trump burns coal and Congress sleeps. The reckoning is coming.

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Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Eliminate Half of Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Within Five Years

There's something deliciously dystopian about Dario Amodei standing on stage last week, demonstrating his latest AI model's ability to code at...

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Trump's AI strategy is all flash, no substance—coal-powered data centers, zero job protections, and tech policy sold to the highest bidder. The emperor has no algorithm.

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The Great MAGA AI Swindle: When Coal Meets Code

Picture this: Your grandfather's rotary phone trying to run TikTok while powered by a coal furnace in the basement. Welcome to Trump's 2025 AI...

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OpenAI wants to control your digital identity through

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OpenAI's Identity Grab: Why "Sign in with ChatGPT" Is a Privacy Nightmare

OpenAI just announced they're exploring "Sign in with ChatGPT"—a universal login system that would let users access third-party apps using their...

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Alibaba's QwenLong-L1-32B breaks new ground as the first reinforcement learning-trained long-context reasoning model, handling 130K tokens and matching Claude-3.7 performance on complex document analysis tasks.

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QwenLong-L1: The First AI Model to Master Ultra-Long Document Reasoning

The AI industry just witnessed a major breakthrough that could reshape how machines process and reason about complex, lengthy documents. Alibaba's...

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Claude Opus 4 solves complex bugs and demonstrates responsible AI development in action.

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Anthropic Powers 'Claude with Voice'

Anthropic just delivered what might be the most thoughtful AI advancement of 2025: a voice-enabled Claude that actually works as promised, combined...

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AI agents are failing so badly that we need AI tools to debug the AI tools that were meant to automate our workflows. When does this madness end?

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We're Building AI Tools to Fix AI Tools That Were Supposed to Fix Everything Else

Remember when AI was supposed to simplify our lives? Those halcyon days of 2023 when we thought ChatGPT would just handle our emails and call it a...

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Google's new Thought Summaries promise transparency in AI reasoning, but history shows us that summarized AI thinking often amplifies bias and leads us down dangerous paths of false certainty.

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Google's "Thought Summaries" Are Just Another Black Box With a Prettier Bow

We've seen this movie before, and frankly, it never ends well. Google just rolled out "Thought Summaries" in their Gemini API—a feature that promises...

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