Congrats! DeepMind is an amazing company. You're getting in with good peeps. 🙂
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FTC and DOJ question major tech companies on AI practices
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The letters also request the FTC and DOJ ask the companies a series of questions:
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FTC DOJ investigates ad tech firms for bot detection deception
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News: @MarkWarner has sent letters to the FTC & DOJ asking for investigations into @integralads
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SambaNova Launches Fastest AI Cloud Platform
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The fastest 📢
— SambaNova (@SambaNovaAI) 28 mars 2025
See for yourself 👇https://t.co/Nq7AnfttCn https://t.co/AZkqkBfC61The fastest See for yourself https://
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AI-Powered Weather Forecasting Rolls Out Across Africa
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Great to see AI-based weather prediction being rolled out across Africa. This is important because traditional weather forecasts rely much more on ground-based radar, and in Africa, there simply aren't enough to give high quality traditional forecasts. https://
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Google Pushes Automated AI Tools Aggressively to Ad Agencies
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Ad agencies are raising concerns over Google ad sales reps aggressively pushing advertisers to use automated tools like Performance Max and generative AI features. I'll share the link to my story in the thread, but numerous agencies told me Google ad sales reps are: Bypassing
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AI Bubble Risks: Alibaba Concerns and CoreWeave’s Financial Challenges
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The Enron of AI? Alibaba’s chairman is worried about an AI bubble, though his concerns may be overblown, while one observer thinks CoreWeave could be the next Enron, a debt-ridden dumping ground for AI services. Plus, Cloudflare has an interesting opportunity in optimizing AI
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Confluent Achieves Profitability: Can Growth Momentum Continue?
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Confluent is profitable now, will growth keep up? An interview with CFO Rohan Sivaram Software maker Confluent is being valued below its potential revenue growth. While that growth is not guaranteed, the rapid expansion of the company’s profit margin should have plenty of
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AI Credits in News Company Deals: Financial Structure Analysis
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Great thread about the financial and technological factors with deals between news companies and AI providers. I’ve been wondering how often — and to what extent — AI credits are part of deals vs monetary amounts.
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OpenAI adoption may shift towards option one instead of two
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with oai adopting it maaaay be that we go to (1) instead of (2) https://
x.com/stevesi/status
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