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💵 Apple to pay Google $1 billion for Siri AI
⚠️ Nvidia CEO warns China will win the AI race
💰 Scammy ads generated 10% of Meta's revenue in 2024
🧠 Microsoft launches "Humanist Superintelligence" push
🤖 Google unveils its most powerful AI chip yet
🤝 Snap signs $400 million AI deal with Perplexity
🚀 Blue Origin's second New Glenn launch
🎁 + 14 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
💵 Apple to pay Google $1 billion for Siri AI LINK
Apple plans to use an artificial intelligence model from Google to help power the long-promised overhaul of its Siri voice assistant, according to people with knowledge of the private matter.
After an extensive evaluation period, the two companies are finalizing an agreement that will see Apple pay Google roughly $1 billion annually for access to its specific artificial intelligence technology.
The particular system at the center of the deal is a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google and selected by Apple for the Siri update.
⚠️ Nvidia CEO warns China will win the AI race LINK
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang warns China is set to win the AI race because American export controls on its advanced semiconductors are forcing Chinese companies to build homegrown alternatives instead.
He also points out China’s favorable energy circumstances, which make it simpler for local technology firms to power the massive data centers required for their artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The chief executive claims the West's prevailing cynicism is a major handicap, saying more optimism is needed for America to maintain its competitive advantage in the expanding global technology competition.
💰 Scammy ads generated 10% of Meta's revenue in 2024 LINK
Internal documents show Meta projected that about 10% of its overall 2024 revenue, or roughly $16 billion, would come from running ads for scams and other banned goods.
The company's platforms show users an estimated 15 billion "higher risk" scam advertisements daily, a specific ad category that generates about $7 billion in annualized revenue.
Rather than banning all suspect advertisers, Meta charges likely scammers higher ad rates through a "penalty bids" system if its automated systems are less than 95% certain of fraud.
🧠 Microsoft launches "Humanist Superintelligence" push LINK
Microsoft created a MAI Superintelligence Team to research its own advanced artificial intelligence, ending a restriction from its OpenAI partnership that previously capped the company's large-scale model development.
The group's goal is to develop what the company calls “Humanist Superintelligence,” an effort framed as a safer, people-focused alternative to the AGI race pursued by rivals like OpenAI.
Led by consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, the new unit also includes chief scientist Karén Simonyan and researchers that Microsoft recently hired away from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Anthropic.
🤖 Google unveils its most powerful AI chip yet LINK
Google is launching its Ironwood chips, a tensor processing unit architecture that scales up to 9,216 chips in a single pod for training and running large AI models.
The Ironwood pods connect the chips with an inter-chip interconnect for 9.6 terabits per second of bandwidth and provide access to 1.77 petabytes of shared high-bandwidth memory.
This new architecture offers four times better performance than the previous Trillium generation and includes a software layer with Cluster Director to manage the advanced hardware and memory.
🤝 Snap signs $400 million AI deal with Perplexity LINK
Snap is bringing Perplexity's AI search engine to its app in early 2026 as part of a $400 million deal where the AI company is paying Snap for the integration.
The AI search engine will be a prominent part of Snapchat's "chat" interface, letting users get clear, conversational answers drawn from verifiable sources without leaving the application.
Revenue from this partnership will start contributing to Snap's bottom line in 2026, with its CEO suggesting the company could become a distribution channel for more AI partners.
🚀 Blue Origin's second New Glenn launch LINK
Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin is targeting Sunday, November 9, for the second launch of its super heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The rocket’s first flight in January was partially successful, as the second stage reached orbit but the first stage exploded during its return before it could land on a drone ship.
This mission will be carrying paying customers for the first time, with NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft heading to Mars and a Viasat tech demonstrator also on board as cargo.
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- Google Gemini’s Deep Research can look into your emails, drive, and chatsLINK
- Pinterest CEO touts open source AI: ‘tremendous performance’ with reduced costsLINK
- New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job lossesLINK
- Sandbar claims its finger-worn AI device is the new 'mouse for voice'LINK
- Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising waysLINK
- Xpeng Debuts Humanoid Robot With Synthetic Skin, Custom Body, And 2026 Release DateLINK
- Google researchers detect first operational use of LLMs in active malware campaignsLINK
- Dutch startup develops artificial womb to save babies born too early to surviveLINK
- BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPSLINK
- Cluely’s Roy Lee hints that viral hype is not enoughLINK
Latest research and tools
Dillo: a multi-platform graphical web browser known for its speed and small size, with a focus on personal security and privacy.LINK
qqqa: a command-line AI assistant for your shell that quickly answers questions or helps complete simple tasks with your confirmation.LINK
Flutter_compositions: provides Vue-inspired reactive building blocks for Flutter, helping developers write cleaner and more reusable user interface code.LINK
Google's Hidden Empire: the study finds that Google collects a significant amount of user data through its Android and Chrome products, even when a person is not actively using them.LINK
Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically: it is unclear why this happens.LINK
Continuous Autoregressive Language Models: the paper introduces a new type of language model that generates text using a continuous space instead of a fixed vocabulary of discrete tokens.LINK
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