Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA
Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai. After nearly a decade in the…
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The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick
Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning, hours before his football team will lose to Cal in…
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s…
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop, but it seems the…
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
At a time when startup hustle culture is back, when “locked in” tech founders have even embraced the “996” way of working — 9 am…
WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants…
Silicon Valley spooks the AI safety advocates
Silicon Valley leaders including White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week…
Senate Republicans deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X hasn’t taken it down
Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing government…
Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land
The AI era is giving fracking a second act, a surprising twist for an industry that, even during its early 2010s boom years, was blamed…
Should AI do everything? OpenAI thinks so
Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s…