(1) Amazon likely to invest in OpenAI (2) Bullish for OpenAI. As it partners for another prominent Tech firm. (3) Bullish for Amazon, as it allows them to sell its chips to OpenAI. (4) Bullish (overall) for the AI ecosystem. (5) Unlikely that this would hit: Nvidia, AMD.
BIG TECH
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Chinese AI Companies Pivot to Open Source Over AGI Competition
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It’s due to LLM/AGI. The opportunity has gone from within-China to global. And while top American LLM companies chose to pursue AGI, Chinese companies cannot raise the funds to compete, so they’ve chosen open source
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Apple’s AI leadership disappointment, need for competitor cover
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Yeah, this is why Apple is so disappointing with its lack of leadership in AI. And I don't think Apple will have a corner turn on these issues soon. Which means we'll have to look elsewhere and get enough people onto a competitor to give Apple the cover to approve such an AI
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Foundation Model Transparency Index 2025 Shows Sharp Decline
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The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index is here! This report reveals a sharp drop in openness, with average scores plummeting from 58 to 40. While IBM leads with 95, xAI and Midjourney scored just 14. – Google: 41
– OpenAI: 35
– DeepSeek: 32
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Blevlabs AI agent reads lists, notes X API cost and new terms
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I'm having @blevlabs
's AI agent (cognitive architecture) read all my lists tonight and this is the first thing it noticed that people are talking about in the AI Community. Hitting the X API is expensive, but oh so good. By the way, did you see X's new terms of service? It just -
Apple Unifies Diffusion and Flow Matching for Faster Image Generation
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What if you could speed up a cutting-edge AI image generator without retraining it from scratch? Apple presents a new method that unifies two major AI image models (diffusion & flow matching) under a simple statistical rule. This lets them directly apply a powerful
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Enshittification Beyond Tech: Media Science and Industry Decay
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Hey @doctorow
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Google Rolls Out Super GEMs with Workflow Creation
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BREAKING 🚨: Google started rolling out Super GEMs to some users.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 17 décembre 2025
A new GEMs Manager now has a "Gems from Labs" section with pre-built and custom workflows from Opal experiment. Users will be able to create and share visual workflows right inside Gemini.
h/t @TheLanceAdams pic.twitter.com/4sUR2VHWyeBREAKING : Google started rolling out Super GEMs to some users. A new GEMs Manager now has a "Gems from Labs" section with pre-built and custom workflows from Opal experiment. Users will be able to create and share visual workflows right inside Gemini. h/t @TheLanceAdams
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Databricks CEO discusses AI future and Series L funding round
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Databricks CEO @alighodsi joined CNBC’s @jonfortt to discuss the future of AI, how organizations are using data-intelligent applications to automate work, and how our Series L funding round will accelerate our development of product innovation. “We’re putting [our investments]
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Meta AI Sam Audio Details Available Online
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Sure is, find all the details here: https://
ai.meta.com/samaudio/