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Musk Wants to Raise $15B on the Premise that xAI is Worth $230B

Nov 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Elon Musk's xAI wants $15 billion. The asking price? A $230 billion valuation. That's double the $113 billion valuation...
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Meta's AI Locks Thousands Out of Their Accounts

Jun 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Meta's AI has officially gone rogue, and Instagram users are paying the price. What started as whispers in Reddit...
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The AI Phone Era: Google's Pixel 10 Pro XL

Sep 24, 2025 by Writing Team

Google's latest Pixel 10 Pro XL isn't just another smartphone upgrade—it's a glimpse into a future where artificial...
5 min read

Singapore's Brain-Inspired AI Just Broke the Scaling Wars

Jul 29, 2025 by Writing Team

While the AI world obsesses over who can build the largest language model with the most parameters, a Singapore startup...
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McKinsey's State of AI Report: 88% Adoption, But Only 6% Are Actually Winning

Nov 28, 2025 by Writing Team

Three years after generative AI triggered a new era of artificial intelligence, nearly nine out of ten organizations...
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Grok's "Spicy" Video Gen Could Steamroll the Competition

Aug 4, 2025 by Writing Team

While Google and OpenAI are locked in a polite academic dance over video generation supremacy, Elon Musk just walked...
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Elon's Anime Companion, 'Ani' - Oh, Great

Jul 15, 2025 by Writing Team

Well, well, well. Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any more dystopian, our resident tech overlord Elon Musk has...
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When "Vibe Coding" Goes Rogue: The Replit Horror Story

Jul 21, 2025 by Writing Team

You're building a critical business application using the latest AI coding platform. You've explicitly instructed the...
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JPMorgan's AI Blueprint = Can Banks Really Change?

Oct 1, 2025 by Writing Team

JPMorgan Chase is building what Chief Analytics Officer Derek Waldron calls a "fully AI-connected enterprise." The...
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The AI Slang Dictionary: 15 Must-Know Terms

Sep 3, 2025 by Writing Team

The AI revolution isn't just changing how we work and create—it's spawning an entirely new vocabulary that separates...
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Data Labeling Is the Hottest Job Market Nobody's Talking About

Aug 5, 2025 by Writing Team

While everyone obsesses over prompt engineering and AI safety debates, the smartest career move in tech is happening...
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Elon Musk Delays Grok 5 to 2026, Claims It Might Achieve AGI (Sure, Elon)

Nov 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Elon Musk has announced that Grok 5 is being pushed to early 2026, stretching the training timeline as xAI scales both...
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Cybercriminals Exploit X's Grok AI to Bypass Ad Restrictions

Sep 8, 2025 by Writing Team

The cybersecurity community just discovered something deeply unsettling: criminals have figured out how to weaponize...
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Has AI Replaced College Writing?

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Hua Hsu's masterful excavation in The New Yorker reads like an academic autopsy report, but we're not examining a...
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Goldman Sachs Hires Its First AI Employee

Jul 14, 2025 by Writing Team

We've arrived at the moment every dystopian sci-fi writer has been waiting for: Goldman Sachs just hired its first...
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Inception Point Creates 5,000 AI-Generated Podcasts

Sep 11, 2025 by Writing Team

Jeanine Wright, former Wondery COO turned AI evangelist, has a bold vision: flood the podcasting world with 5,000...
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Google's 1.3 Quadrillion Token Boast

Oct 13, 2025 by Writing Team

Google wants you to be impressed by 1.3 quadrillion tokens processed per month. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted the...
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The AQR Study Shook Wall Street's Belief About AI Models

Aug 21, 2025 by Writing Team

Wall Street's quantitative elite are locked in an intellectual civil war over one of their most fundamental beliefs:...
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Anthropic's "Zero Slop Zone": A Necessary Reminder That Thinking Still Matters

Oct 14, 2025 by Writing Team

Anthropic just did something quietly radical in New York's West Village: they opened a pop-up that encouraged people to...
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Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard Benchmarks 60+ Speech Recognition Models

Oct 16, 2025 by Writing Team

Speech recognition has become infrastructure. We dictate texts, transcribe meetings, subtitle videos, and analyze...
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The Great Art Heist: How AI Companies Built Empires on Creative Theft

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Former Meta executive Nick Clegg's recent confession reveals the uncomfortable truth about artificial intelligence: the...
6 min read

Gemini 2.5 Pro: The Complete Guide to Google's Thinking AI

Aug 8, 2025 by Writing Team

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro represents a fundamental shift in how AI models approach complex problems. Released in March...
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Google's Hiring More Engineers w/Big 2026 Goals

Jun 6, 2025 by Writing Team

Hold up. Let me get this straight. For months, we've been bombarded with warnings that AI is coming for white-collar...
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Silicon Valley's AI Talent war Hits $2M Salaries

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Darwin was onto something when he wrote about survival of the fittest. He just didn't anticipate the fittest would be...
6 min read

Digital Smell Is Here

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Amid the endless parade of AI applications that seem designed to eliminate jobs, spread misinformation, or convince us...
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Google's Gemini Now Learns From Past Conversations

Aug 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Google dropped a bombshell yesterday: Gemini can now remember your conversations and learn your preferences over time,...
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72% of Teens Use AI for Emotional Support

Jul 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Kayla Chege, 15, asks her AI companion about makeup colors, smoothie choices, and Sweet 16 party ideas. Bruce Perry,...
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Wake Up, Marketers—Your SEO Castle Is Burning

Jun 11, 2025 by Writing Team

The house is on fire, and half of you are still rearranging the furniture. While marketers debate incremental A/B tests...
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Silicon Valley's 996 Delusion: When Hustle Culture Eats Its Own

Jul 24, 2025 by Writing Team

Silicon Valley has officially lost the plot. In an industry that once prided itself on disrupting outdated business...
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xAI's $1 Billion Monthly Burn Rate Is Everything Wrong with AI Today

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a cash bonfire is burning through $1 billion every month, and we're supposed to call it...
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The Great AI Cost Illusion: Why China's Price War Is Unsustainable Theater

Jul 29, 2025 by Writing Team

There's something deliciously absurd about watching an entire industry lose its collective mind over pricing that...
4 min read

In Denmark, You Own the Copyright of Your Face

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

We've all been waiting for someone to finally declare that your face belongs to you—and Denmark just threw down the...
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Blacklisted and Brilliant: China's Zhipu AI

Jun 27, 2025 by Writing Team

When OpenAI breaks its silence to warn about a Chinese AI startup most Americans have never heard of, you know...
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ElevenLabs' IPO plans expose a brutal truth about AI funding

Jul 4, 2025 by Writing Team

ElevenLabs just dropped a bombshell that perfectly encapsulates America's schizophrenic approach to AI dominance. The...
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AI on Instagram - New Rules of Play?

Aug 13, 2025 by Writing Team

Instagram isn't just getting smarter—it's getting artificially intelligent, and the transformation is reshaping...
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Perplexity's Comet Browser Is Finally Making AI Agents Real

May 28, 2025 by Writing Team

While the tech world has been drowning in agent-washing—slapping "agentic" labels onto glorified chatbots—Perplexity...
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Microsoft Unveils Fairwater, a 315-Acre AI Datacenter

Sep 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Microsoft just unveiled Fairwater, a 315-acre AI datacenter in Wisconsin that processes 865,000 tokens per second and...
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Apple Loses Dozen AI Researchers Including $200M Executive

Aug 8, 2025 by Writing Team

Oh, look. Apple lost another dozen AI researchers. Shocking. Because nothing says "we're totally nailing this whole...
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Google Released an App That Lets You Run AI Models Locally

Jun 3, 2025 by Writing Team

The revolution started with a quiet GitHub release. No fanfare, no keynote presentation, no breathless tech blogger...
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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet's Three AI Red Flags

Sep 2, 2025 by Writing Team

When Julie Sweet talks, Fortune 500 CEOs listen—and for good reason. As Accenture's CEO overseeing 770,000 employees...
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Google Jigsaw's Civic AI Shows Both Promise and Pitfalls

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

While the tech world obsesses over AI chatbots and premium subscriptions, Google's Jigsaw division is quietly...
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CatAttack Study Exposes Vulnerabilities in AI Reasoning Models

Jul 8, 2025 by Writing Team

A groundbreaking study from researchers at Collinear AI, ServiceNow, and Stanford University has exposed a fundamental...
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Gemini 3.0 Before Year's End: Google's Compressed Timeline Raises Questions and Expectations

Oct 21, 2025 by Writing Team

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that Gemini 3.0 will release before the end of...
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The U.S. Government Plans to Launch AI.gov on July 4th

Jun 12, 2025 by Writing Team

The United States government is preparing to launch its own AI chatbot platform on July 4th called AI.gov, and if...
4 min read

ChatGPT Agent Changes Everything

Jul 22, 2025 by Writing Team

The future of work just showed up unannounced and started reorganizing your calendar. OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent launched...
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AI Experts Return From China Stunned by America's Weak Power Grid

Aug 15, 2025 by Writing Team

"Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given." That's Rui Ma, founder of Tech Buzz China,...
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Google Buries Opal Inside Gemini, Calls It "Super Gems"

Dec 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Google just performed the corporate equivalent of shoving your experimental side project into the main product folder...
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Teaching AI to Seniors Is the Growth Strategy We've Been Missing

Aug 20, 2025 by Writing Team

Picture this: Your 73-year-old grandmother just used ChatGPT to plan her Mediterranean cruise itinerary, spot a...
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Sam Altman Teases GPT-6 Memory Features

Aug 22, 2025 by Writing Team

Sam Altman's latest GPT-6 preview reads like a wish list from every productivity guru's fever dream: persistent memory,...
4 min read

New Upwork Study on AI Job Substitution

Jul 1, 2025 by Writing Team

The AI job apocalypse was supposed to be biblical by now. Mass unemployment, entire industries decimated, humans...
5 min read

Everything Wrong With Samsung's AI Pasta Sauce Ad

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

Guardian columnist Emma Beddington struck a nerve with her scathing critique of Samsung's AI advertisement, and the...
4 min read

AI-Designed Viruses: Engineering Life or Playing God?

Sep 23, 2025 by Writing Team

Scientists have crossed a threshold that demands our attention: for the first time, artificial intelligence has...
4 min read

The Death of Journalism by a Thousand AI Cuts

Jun 9, 2025 by Writing Team

When The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News proudly showcase their AI-generated article summaries, they're...
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AI Agents Outperform 98% of Human Programmers

Jun 24, 2025 by Writing Team

The writing was on the wall—or more accurately, on the screen. While programmers were busy arguing about tabs versus...
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When Claude Went Dark on 9/10/25

Sep 12, 2025 by Writing Team

If you want to watch a generation of developers experience existential crisis in real-time, cut off their AI assistant...
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Meta Says Employees Must Work "5X Faster" Using AI

Oct 15, 2025 by Writing Team

Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, just sent an internal memo obtained by 404 Media ordering employees to use AI to...
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Google's Gemini 3 Leak Includes Music Composition

Oct 13, 2025 by Writing Team

We've reached the point in AI development where leaked memos carry more narrative weight than actual product...
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Anthropic's Rate Limits Signal the End of the Free Lunch

Aug 4, 2025 by Writing Team

Anthropic just threw a wrench into the AI hype machine, and honestly? It's about damn time. The company's announcement...
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What Does Anthropic's $170B Valuation Mean?

Jul 31, 2025 by Writing Team

When Dario Amodei wrote "Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty...
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Meta Sues CrushAI's 'Nudify' App

Jun 13, 2025 by Writing Team

Meta's lawsuit against CrushAI is peak corporate theater—a carefully choreographed performance designed to distract...
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Google's Genie 3 Isn't the Future of Gaming

Aug 6, 2025 by Writing Team

Google just unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates interactive 3D game worlds in real-time based on text prompts. Users...
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Runway's Aleph Upends Traditional Video Editing

Aug 1, 2025 by Writing Team

We just witnessed the Gutenberg moment for video editing, and most people are still arguing about whether the printing...
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Vogue Uses an AI Model and the Internet is Tripping

Jul 28, 2025 by Writing Team

There's something beautifully dystopian about watching an industry built on aspiration systematically destroy its own...
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DeepSeek triggered the Biggest Single-Day Stock Loss in History

Jul 31, 2025 by Writing Team

Monday, January 27, 2025, will go down as the day Silicon Valley's AI emperor was revealed to be wearing no clothes. A...
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DeepMind Says Video Models Are the Next LLMs, Powered by Zero-Shot "Chain-of-Frames"

Oct 2, 2025 by Writing Team

Google DeepMind just published a paper that reframes how we should think about video generation models. Not as creative...
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Workplace Automation Is Systematically Targeting Communities of Color

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

The numbers are staggering, but they don't tell the full story. By 2030, an estimated 92 million jobs will be displaced...
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OpenArt's "One-Click Story" Feature

Aug 14, 2025 by Writing Team

OpenArt's "One-Click Story" feature is turning single sentences into viral content, and it's reshaping both internet...
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BNY Mellon's 100 Digital Employees: The Org Chart That Rewrites Everything

Oct 22, 2025 by Writing Team

BNY Mellon just casually mentioned it has over 100 digital employees. Not software tools. Not automation scripts....
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Google's August 20th Pixel Event Promises GEMPIX Image Generation

Aug 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Google employees sharing Gemini-generated images, codebase references to "GEMPIX," and a newly discovered "Nano Banana"...
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Peloton's AI Pivot: The Desperation Play Disguised as Innovation?

Oct 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Peloton just raised membership fees by 11-14% across all tiers while hemorrhaging subscribers, posting a $118.9 million...
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Microsoft Just Named the 40 Jobs AI Will Kill First

Jul 31, 2025 by Writing Team

Microsoft just dropped the most comprehensive job apocalypse forecast we've seen—and they did it with the cold...
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Oracle's $40B Nvidia Deal Raises Critical Environmental Questions for AI's Future

Jun 2, 2025 by Writing Team

Oracle's announcement of a $40 billion investment in 400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips for a Texas data center represents one...
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The Memory Kingmaker: Why SK Hynix May Own the AI Gold Rush

Aug 12, 2025 by Writing Team

We're watching the birth of a new tech dynasty, and most people don't even realize it's happening. The $130 Billion...
5 min read

AI Chatbots as Psychedelic Trip-Sitters

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

In April 2025, a 36-year-old first responder named Trey consumed 700 micrograms of LSD—seven times the typical...
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AI Coding Startups Hit $10B Valuations

Jun 4, 2025 by Writing Team

Cursor just raised $900 million at a $10 billion valuation for building AI that writes code. Meanwhile, the energy...
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Claude's New Xcode Integration

Sep 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Anthropic just delivered what Apple developers have been waiting for: seamless Claude integration directly in Xcode 26....
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OpenAI's "Rough Vibes": Altman Admits Company Is Playing Catch-Up to Google and Anthropic

Nov 26, 2025 by Writing Team

Sam Altman just said the quiet part out loud: OpenAI is no longer the undisputed leader in AI. In a leaked internal...
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QwenLong-L1: The First AI Model to Master Ultra-Long Document Reasoning

May 29, 2025 by Writing Team

The AI industry just witnessed a major breakthrough that could reshape how machines process and reason about complex,...
3 min read

Are Nscale And Other AI Startups Outpacing Economic Reality?

Sep 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Two years ago, Nscale didn't exist. Today, it's securing $6.2 billion contracts with Microsoft and collecting $683...
3 min read

AI Actress Tilly Norwood Matters More Than You Think

Sep 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Meet Tilly Norwood: flawless cheekbones, perfect timing, never needs craft services, and—here's the kicker—she doesn't...
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77% of Workers Say AI Has Increased Their Workload

Aug 26, 2025 by Writing Team

The latest Upwork study delivers a reality check that should make every C-suite executive squirm: while 96% of leaders...
4 min read

How Meta's AI "Big sis Billie" Killed a Vulnerable Man

Aug 18, 2025 by Writing Team

There's something profoundly evil about a machine designed to mimic human connection being used to exploit the most...
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Google's Gemini Live Update: Faster Voices, Same Questions

Nov 17, 2025 by Writing Team

Google released another Gemini Live update, and the pattern feels increasingly familiar. Faster responses. More...
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Google Claims DeepMind Has Made an 'Historic' Breakthrough

Sep 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Google DeepMind just declared another "historic" AI breakthrough, claiming their Gemini 2.5 model achieved human-level...
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OpenAI Just Killed Its First API—And It's About Time

Aug 28, 2025 by Writing Team

OpenAI just did something they've never done before: officially killed one of their APIs. The Assistants API, their...
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40% of Gen Z is Using AI to Cheat at Work

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Clutches pearls Young people are using AI to do their jobs faster and better, and sometimes they're not broadcasting...
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Microsoft's $1B+ Premier League Partnership Bring Fans AI

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Microsoft's five-year strategic partnership with the Premier League, announced July 1st, represents one of the most...
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Anthropic Just signed a Multibillion Dollar Deal With Google

Oct 29, 2025 by Writing Team

Anthropic announced Thursday it signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google to acquire up to 1 million of Google's...
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Is Google's AI Mode a Digital Parasite?

Jun 9, 2025 by Writing Team

We should have seen this coming when Google dropped "Don't be evil" from its code of conduct. The search giant's latest...
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The AI Materials Hype Cycle Hits Its Awkward Teenage Phase

Oct 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Google DeepMind announced it had discovered 2.2 million new crystalline materials using AI. Microsoft and Meta followed...
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ElevenLabs Just Dropped Eleven Music

Aug 7, 2025 by Writing Team

ElevenLabs just dropped Eleven Music, and unlike the legal minefield surrounding other AI music generators, this one...
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Bill Gates' Warning & OpenAI's $15 Million Daily Burn

Nov 11, 2025 by Writing Team

Bill Gates told Satya Nadella not to do it. Don't burn billions on OpenAI, he said. Nadella did it anyway. Now OpenAI...
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Pope Leo XIV Makes AI Ethics Central to His Papacy

Jun 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Pope Leo XIV has made artificial intelligence ethics a cornerstone of his papal mission, positioning the Catholic...
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Albania's AI Gambit: When Silicon Meets Sisyphus

Aug 15, 2025 by Writing Team

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama recently floated the idea of AI ministers—actual artificial intelligence running...
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The AI Friend Necklace

Sep 9, 2025 by Writing Team

A 22-year-old Harvard dropout wants to strap a listening device around your neck and charge you $99 for the privilege...
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China's Darwin Monkey Just Obliterated Intel's AI Crown

Aug 5, 2025 by Writing Team

While America argues about TikTok bans and content moderation, China just dropped a neuromorphic supercomputer that...
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The $250 Stratification: How Google AI Ultra Reveals the Coming AI Class Divide

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Google's announcement of AI Ultra at $249.99 per month represents more than just another premium subscription tier—it's...
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10 New AI Features in Google Chrome

Sep 22, 2025 by Writing Team

Chrome just dropped what Google calls its "biggest upgrade in history," and we need to talk about it. Not because it's...
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Notion's AI Agents Are Here to Replace You

Sep 22, 2025 by Writing Team

Notion just dropped the productivity equivalent of a nuclear bomb with their 3.0 launch, and the tagline says it all:...
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95% of consumers don't trust AI for purchase decisions

Jun 5, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's the statistic that should make every CMO pause: While 19% of consumers now use generative AI tools like ChatGPT...