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BIG TECH
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Top AI Stories: Tinder Dating, Spotify Defense AI, Obesity Pill
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Top stories in AI today: – Tinder rolls out double dating feature
– Spotify’s Daniel Ek bets big on defense AI
– New obesity pill burns fat and keeps muscle
– Gig economy startup WorkWhile grabs $23M
– Quick hits on other major tech news Read more: https://
tech.therundown.ai/p/tinders-new-
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OpenAI Microsoft Partnership Crisis and AI Tools Evolution
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Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI, Microsoft partnership hits boiling point
– MiniMax’s reasoner with 1M token context
– Add image generation & editing to projects
– McKinsey details AI investment paradox
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/openai-micro
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Signal Launches Privacy-First Messaging Without AI Surveillance
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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, no surveillance ads—whatever the rest of the industry does. We lead we don’t follow
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Nvidia Launches Isaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2 for Robot AI Development
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Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulationspic.twitter.com/rAwpgcTaw7Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulations
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OpenAI Wins $200M U.S. Department of Defense Contract
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OpenAI won a $200M U.S. DoD contract
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
The one-year pilot will see OAI deliver frontier AI to address national security challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains"
This marks the lab's foray into defense tech, while sticking to its usage policiespic.twitter.com/Sc636XFwCqOpenAI won a $200M U.S. DoD contract The one-year pilot will see OAI deliver frontier AI to address national security challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" This marks the lab's foray into defense tech, while sticking to its usage policies
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OpenAI Wins $200M Defense Department Contract, AI Industry Updates
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AI NEWS: OpenAI just won a $200M contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Plus, more news from MiniMax, Nvidia, Moonshot AI, Groq, ElevenLabs, and 1X. Here's everything you need to know:
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OpenAI Could Acquire Microsoft Within Five Years
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Yep. I predicted before that OpenAI would acquire Microsoft. Sounds crazy, but in 5 years I think it won't.
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ByteDance Seaweed APT2: Real-time Interactive Video Generation
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📢This changes everything. Real-time, interactive video generation — in just one minute?
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 17 juin 2025
Bytedance presents Seaweed APT2: Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for lightning-fast, real-time interactive videos.
Let's get into the thread for all the wild details! 🧵 pic.twitter.com/u9FppHBNG6This changes everything. Real-time, interactive video generation — in just one minute? Bytedance presents Seaweed APT2: Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for lightning-fast, real-time interactive videos. Let's get into the thread for all the wild details!
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Superintelligence moves from mockery to mainstream through massive funding
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“Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”