Mass Intelligence means we are going to inundated with stories about people using AI to do amazing things and horrifying things as over a billion people increasingly get access to advanced (and easy-to-use) AI models. Things are going to get very weird.
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Influential Tech Leader Missing Impact on Company Valuations
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Mira missing too… she seems pretty influential as well with the valuations her company is getting…
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Meta Ad Delivery Issues Impact Holiday Weekend Campaigns
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Meta advertisers before a big holiday weekend after weeks of delivery issues: feverishly launching ads and hoping for a killer end of month!
— David Herrmann (@herrmanndigital) 29 août 2025
Meta ad engineers coming in hot to disrupt! pic.twitter.com/1aiC4fWEcrMeta advertisers before a big holiday weekend after weeks of delivery issues: feverishly launching ads and hoping for a killer end of month! Meta ad engineers coming in hot to disrupt!
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OpenAI GPT-Realtime: Voice Interface Revolution
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Voice is an interface, and I feel we’re going to see voice explode.@OpenAI gpt-realtime is out and allows for native speech-to-speech and precise tool calling in real time. It can also take image inputs and place SIP phone calls – good for a quick triage before human handoff. pic.twitter.com/pa1xXzqVOV
— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) 29 août 2025Voice is an interface, and I feel we’re going to see voice explode. @OpenAI gpt-realtime is out and allows for native speech-to-speech and precise tool calling in real time. It can also take image inputs and place SIP phone calls – good for a quick triage before human handoff.
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Third Report of Scientists Leaving Meta’s AI Team
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I think this is now the third report that newly recruited scientists are leaving Meta's AI team. I would be very interested to know what the mood is like in Meta's team.
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Week of breakthroughs: Starship, CRISPR, DeepMind and optimism
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Traylor Swelce.
Starship's perfect flight.
Chan and Doudna do CRISPR for kids.
Google DeepMind drops the neobanana.
Abundance Institute x Base Power Company. + Electric Slide
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NYTimes Lawsuit Impact on AI Chatbot Development
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That got complicated by the NYTimes lawsuit, I'm not clear how that impacts tempered chats though
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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Cohere Advance AI with New Models
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Top stories in AI today – Microsoft releases homegrown AI
– OpenAI’s gpt-realtime for voice agents
– Create an AI agent to handle email support
– Cohere’s SOTA enterprise translation model – 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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OpenAI’s Potential AGI Breakthroughs Circulating on Social Media
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My fy page is slowly filling up again with AGI breakthroughs. Has OpenAI now hit the big time internally?
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Data Privacy as Competitive Advantage in AI Market
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Given how competitive the AI space is I expect "we don't train on text provided by your employees" to be a key feature for winning paying customers – and it is, almost all the labs promote that for their paid accounts