I don’t hear Replit mentioned much in all this talk of AI talent and company acquisitions from Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft and others. Maybe that will change soon.
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Google DeepMind’s Lyria: AI Music Generation from Text Prompts
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New on Poe: Lyria!
— Poe (@poe_platform) 23 juin 2025
Google DeepMind’s music-gen model creates high-fidelity instrumental tracks directly from your text prompts. With detailed control over style, instruments, and tempo, you can transform your creative ideas into music right from chat. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/QKg5ssxZpuNew on Poe: Lyria! Google DeepMind’s music-gen model creates high-fidelity instrumental tracks directly from your text prompts. With detailed control over style, instruments, and tempo, you can transform your creative ideas into music right from chat. (1/2)
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Robotics breakthroughs: AI skin, major investments, military drones
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Top stories in robotics today: – New artificial robot skin can ‘feel’ pain
– Softbank eyes $1T robotics complex in Arizona
– Germany’s Neura Robotics to raise $1.15B – China’s mosquito-sized military drone
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
robotnews.therundown.ai/p/new-robot-sk
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OpenAI Should Create AI-Powered Headgear Called HatGPT
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Now that OpenAI’s getting into hardware, they should make AI-powered headgear and call it HatGPT!
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Alteryx appoints new CMO Michelle Huff from UserTesting
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Big Alteryx welcome to our new CMO, @Michelle_Huff
! A marketing powerhouse with 20+ yrs in tech (most recently @UserTesting
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Big Tech’s AI Talent Hunt and Latest AI Tools
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Top stories in AI today: – Apple, Meta hunt AI talent, startups
– Meta, Oakley bring AI to athletes – How to turn GitHub projects into coding inspiration
– AI resorts to blackmail, espionage in tests
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/big-techs-ai
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Anthropic as benevolent alternative narrative questioned
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Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it. Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.
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Author’s Long-Standing Aversion to OpenAI Since 2015
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The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company. I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI.
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Elon Musk’s xAI Plans to Rewrite Human Knowledge with Grok
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Elon Musk posted that xAI will use Grok 3.5/4 to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge,”
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 23 juin 2025
The models will likely add missing info, delete errors, and then retrain on corrected data
3.5 will reason from first principles, he previously saidpic.twitter.com/7dR9hSCuxVElon Musk posted that xAI will use Grok 3.5/4 to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge,” The models will likely add missing info, delete errors, and then retrain on corrected data 3.5 will reason from first principles, he previously said
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Meta and Oakley Launch New Performance-Focused AI Smart Glasses
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Meta launched new performance-focused AI smart glasses with Oakley. Key features include:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 23 juin 2025
—Upgraded camera with up to 3K videos
—2x battery, up to 8 hours of usage & 19 hrs on standby
—PRIZM Lens tech to amplify contrast across changing light and weatherpic.twitter.com/tjb5ajp3ysMeta launched new performance-focused AI smart glasses with Oakley. Key features include: —Upgraded camera with up to 3K videos
—2x battery, up to 8 hours of usage & 19 hrs on standby
—PRIZM Lens tech to amplify contrast across changing light and weather