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🤖 Apple to use Google Gemini for new Siri
🛑 Google pulls AI over false claim about senator
🚕 Baidu matches Waymo with 250,000 weekly robotaxi rides
🗓️ Sutskever reveals year-long plan to fire Sam Altman
🤝 OpenAI and Amazon sign $38 billion cloud deal
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Apple to use Google Gemini for new Siri LINK
A report indicates Apple will quietly rely on Google Gemini models for much of the new Siri experience, moving away from trying to compete directly with existing AI chatbots.
This approach is considered more sensible because the company no longer has to catch up with a rapidly moving target, which was a main reason for previous skepticism.
A huge integration task is still required to make third-party models work seamlessly within the Apple ecosystem, which is why some doubts about the project’s success currently remain.
🛑 Google pulls AI over false claim about senator LINK
Google removed its Gemma AI model from AI Studio after Senator Marsha Blackburn accused it of fabricating false criminal allegations about her.
Blackburn’s letter claimed Gemma invented a fake 1987 scandal and cited it as proof of defamation and political bias by Google’s AI systems.
Google said Gemma was intended only for developers, not consumers, and remains available via API while it works to reduce AI hallucinations.
🚕 Baidu matches Waymo with 250,000 weekly robotaxi rides LINK
Baidu's Apollo Go now completes over 250,000 fully driverless robotaxi rides each week, matching a similar figure that rival Waymo reported for its U.S. operations back in April.
This new weekly total marks a notable increase for the company, which averaged about 169,000 rides a week during the quarter that ended on the 30th of June.
While the company's main robotaxi operations are in Chinese cities like Wuhan, Apollo Go is also expanding its service to international locations including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Switzerland.
🗓️ Sutskever reveals year-long plan to fire Sam Altman LINK
A deposition reveals co-founder Ilya Sutskever plotted Sam Altman's ouster for over a year, authoring a secret memo accusing the CEO of a consistent "pattern of lying."
The 52-page document included evidence like screenshots from CTO Mira Murati and was sent as a disappearing email because Sutskever feared direct retaliation before the board could act.
Immediately following the removal, the board considered merging with rival firm Anthropic to take over leadership, a proposal that former board member Helen Toner strongly supported.
🤝 OpenAI and Amazon sign $38 billion cloud deal LINK
OpenAI reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over seven years, with plans to deploy all new AWS compute capacity before the end of 2026.
The agreement follows a recent corporate restructuring that freed the company from needing to secure Microsoft’s approval to purchase computing services from other firms.
This purchase is part of a larger plan to grow computing power, which also includes new data center buildouts with Oracle, SoftBank, and the United Arab Emirates.
Other news you might like
- Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenueLINK
- Trump says Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips will be US-onlyLINK
- Microsoft inks $9.7B deal with Australia’s IREN for AI cloud capacityLINK
- Microsoft expands in UAE with $15.2B in investmentLINK
- Trump on crypto mogul he pardoned: 'I don't know who he is'LINK
- Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s whyLINK
- Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman says AI is definitely not consciousLINK
- Claude AI APIs Can Be Abused for Data ExfiltrationLINK
- Elon Musk alleges Sam Altman 'stole a non-profit' as AI bros spat over cancelled Tesla Roadster orderLINK
- PewDiePie goes all-in on self-hosting AI using modded GPUs, with plans to build his own model soon — YouTuber pits multiple chatbots against each other to find the best answersLINK
Latest research and tools
React-Native-Godot: allows developers to embed the Godot game engine into React Native applications, providing full control over the game instance from JavaScript and TypeScript.LINK
OSS Alternative to Open WebUI: a lightweight interface for accessing many local and remote language models through a single, private, and offline-capable chat application.LINK
Rust ray tracer: a tool for creating realistic 3D images that can run on a CPU, a GPU, or interactively inside a web browser.LINK
Walkie Talkie: an open-source iOS app for peer-to-peer, push-to-talk communication and FM radio streaming between nearby devices, without requiring an internet connection.LINK
Calculus: A Limitless Perspective: this textbook explains calculus, the branch of mathematics that studies continuous change.LINK
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture: the paper introduces a new attention architecture for AI models that is designed to be both highly capable and computationally efficient.LINK
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