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Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
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The AI code wars are heating up
…AI even before anyone was really talking about AI. In the spring of 2021, 18 months before the world knew the word “ChatGPT,” Microsoft debuted the very first product of a partnership…
Electric Cars
…Jay Peters 3:47 PM UTC Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on…
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone
…Whoop was one of the first wearable companies to add AI coaching in 2023. Then, both companies added partnerships to help people order blood tests and integrate the data into their platforms…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Last year Dara told me he was wide open to partnerships just to see if they were meaningful, but all the AI Uber integrations I’ve seen so far have been pretty…
Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’
…I feel like the industry is kind of cutting off that exploratory element with generative AI by just shoving it into movies.” When I brought up the ongoing conversation about gen AI…
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to…
Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners
Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a…
How Ferrari bungled the design of its first EV
…It really does look as if it was designed by AI. It’s like a mathematical averaging of many different themes,” Zammit said, adding that, “it’s almost alarmingly vacant…
Autonomous Cars
…Driverless Digest ’s Harry Campbell is also predicting that Waymo and Uber’s partnership may be running out of steam. Uber and Waymo are partners. They're also starting to sound like…