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OpenAI’s 2025 Ship Cycle: GPT-5 Releases and AI Agents
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AI Content Quality, Claude Tests, and Meta’s Bug Detection Tools
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Top stories in AI today: – 21% of YT videos to new users are “AI slop”
– Phase 2 of Claude’s shopkeeping test
– Automate pre-meeting work with Perplexity
– Meta's AI finds and fixes its own bugs
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Meta Acquires Manus AI Agent Startup in Major Deal
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BREAKING: Meta Acquires Manus—AI Agent Game Changer Meta has officially acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup, marking its 3rd largest acquisition ever (after WhatsApp & Scale AI). The deal, announced Dec 29th, adds a major asset: Manus reached $100M ARR in
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Meta acquires Manus in year-end technology acquisition
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OJO Ahora es Meta la que saca la billetera para adquirir Manus! Vaya compras de última hora para cerrar el año
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Meta’s Manus AI scores 2.5% on Remote Labor Index
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Manus AI, acquired by Meta, is a current SOTA with a 2.5% achievement on the "Remote Labor Index" benchmark (Introduced by Meta). The Remote Labor Index measures AI automation of remote work. Soon to know how much 2.5% is worth
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Robert Scoble interviews Leon Ming about Chinese AI competition
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The AI competition from the Chinese side of the fence.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 29 décembre 2025
Leon Ming, @LEON_0xx0, cofounder of @youware joins me for a long conversation about what's happening in China (he is one of the top entreprenurs there, and also was a cofounder of @capcutapp, among others).
YouWare is one… pic.twitter.com/A2dqyuBsU6The AI competition from the Chinese side of the fence. Leon Ming, @LEON_0xx0, cofounder of @youware joins me for a long conversation about what's happening in China (he is one of the top entreprenurs there, and also was a cofounder of @capcutapp
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Meta acquires AI company to become agentic
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Another interesting AI company gets acquired. Well now we know how Meta will turn agentic.
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Frontier AI Data Center Capacity Growth Expected in 2026
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Frontier AI data center capacity, based on data collected by @EpochAIResearch. It doesn't include every single one, as they focus on the largest ones.
— Peter Gostev (@petergostev) 29 décembre 2025
Few things stand out:
– 2026 will have a huge amount of cpacity come online
– Anthropic will lead at some early points in… pic.twitter.com/lJfxjMc87JFrontier AI data center capacity, based on data collected by @EpochAIResearch
. It doesn't include every single one, as they focus on the largest ones. Few things stand out: – 2026 will have a huge amount of cpacity come online – Anthropic will lead at some early points in -
AI Devalues Stanford Degree, Graduates Struggle Finding Jobs
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"A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say."
#RiseoftheRobots #AI https://
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AI industry follows rich people to San Francisco
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The reason the AI industry moved to San Francisco from around the world is because the money is here (i.e., the rich people are here). If the rich people leave, everybody else follows them.