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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
…long-running agents with full enterprise compliance.” The first one Microsoft will offer is “Scout,” billed as “your always-on personal agent,” but clients can build and personalize their own. The Autopilot…
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
…You can question whether we should let people decide where money that would otherwise be going to the government goes. This is crazy. I actually know a billionaire who has plenty of…
Rivian makes the iconic American car — but that may not be enough
…But the company recently was forced to scale back the plan after Trump’s Energy Department slashed a loan agreement with the company from $6.5 billion to $4.4 billion. It…
Artificial Intelligence
…Apple Readies AI Writing Help, App Shortcuts and Wallpapers for iOS 27 [ Bloomberg ] Lauren Feiner May 18 A new bill aims to shield energy consumers from AI data center-related costs. Sen…
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
…When The Verge asked about the matter during the Monday briefing with OpenAI, employees seemed to avoid the question, pointing to the company’s existing image-generation policy and saying Sora’s…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…Let me ask you two final questions to wrap up. You mentioned that it’s the same architecture that we’ve been using. I have a lot of open questions about whether…
How Zillow grows when there aren’t enough houses
…So tell me how the company was structured before you became CEO, and then this is the Decoder question: How is Zillow structured now? I’ll answer both those questions. The company…
Star Trek
…As for other hopefuls, Variety reports a $27 billion all-cash bid from the private equity firm Apollo was declined. Redstone, Skydance Strike Tentative Deal for Paramount Stake [ Bloomberg ] Richard Lawler Apr…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…Reality Defender, Pindrop, and GetReal are part of a rapidly growing deepfake detection cottage industry valued at an estimated $5.5 billion as of 2023. These startups use machine learning to identify…