whenever something does not work in the twitter ui, i flinch as i realize that yazine is no longer going to fix it
BIG TECH
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OpenAI Deletes IO Product Content Over Legal Naming Issue
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OpenAI has had to delete its content related to the IO product launched alongside Johnny Eves due to a legal issue with the name. Between that and what already happened with the o2 model name, I think someone on the legal team should be fired…
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Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration
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Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration https://
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Why target AI model providers instead of base model creators?
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I don’t understand the models argument. Wouldn’t they still be reliant on GPT-X, Llama, Claude, etc? Why not just go after Anthropic or Cohere, or something along those lines?
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Grok Config Hints at AGI Label in Easter Egg Discovery
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On a trouvé cette ligne dans la configuration de Grok : “Grok 4.20 AGI (beta)” Artificial Grok Intelligence Probablement juste un easter egg… ou peut-être pas
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Apple Explores Acquisition Talks With AI Search Startup Perplexity
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Breaking news: Apple has held internal discussions to acquire Perplexity
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MiniMax Raises $600M: Alibaba-Led Funding Round Valued at $2.5B
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Minimax is not that small https://
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RL Limitations and AGI Pursuit: DeepMind Strategic Challenges
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No. I told them two things.
1. The RL-based pursuit of AGI will not work. The sample complexity of RL is just too high (that was the motivation for "the cake analogy").
2. Pursuing AGI is cool, but at some point, Google will ask DeppMind to work on topics that could have a -

ChatGPT’s cognitive debt: SoftBank’s billion-dollar Arizona gamble
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𝗗𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 : 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲 Pendant que SoftBank veut construire un empire en Arizona, ChatGPT creuse une dette… dans nos cerveaux.
L’IA s’impose partout, mais à quel prix ? SoftBank veut investir 1 000 Md$
