With Google's CEO on the stand today in the search remedies trial, I wrote a brief @Digiday rundown about what witnesses from rivals — OpenAI, Perplexity, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo — said last week about buying possibly buying Chrome if given the chance. Link in the thread.
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Ukraine’s Rare Earth Elements and AI Industrial Infrastructure Development
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Inevitable. Now: what does Ukraine actually have in terms of REE? Existing surveys are out of date (Soviet Era.) But as I argue, this is directly correlated to the Industrial buildout of Intelligence.
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Timing and differentiation: lessons from past failures
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100% of my past failures were either being too early or undifferentiated offerings
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Google AI Studio Gemini Users Surge Over 200% in 2026
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Active users in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API have grown over 200% since the beginning of this year, driven by 2.5 Pro This is just the beginning…
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Alpha-Factory: AGI Agent Monetizing Cosmological Energy Gradients
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Large‑Scale α‑AGI Business 3 — Omega‑Grade Edition Alpha‑Factory v1 → Ω‑Lattice v0 Transmuting cosmological free‑energy gradients into compounding cash‑flows. Demo — GitHub : https://
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Second Llama Impact Grants Awarded to 10 International Recipients
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Today at LlamaCon, we announced the 10 international recipients of the second Llama Impact Grants! The Llama Impact Grants are aimed at fostering innovation and creating economic opportunities through open-source AI. This year’s recipients showcase a diverse range of solutions,
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Creating Stock Analyst and Report Writer Agents with Llama-4-Maverick
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4. Creating the Agents We define two agents, both powered by Llama-4-Maverick from Sambanova: – Stock Analyst: Role: Wall Street Analyst. Goal: Analyze {symbol} using the YFinance tool for live data. – Report Writer: Role: Report Specialist. Goal: Craft a professional report.
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Figure AI Partners with UPS to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Logistics
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Figure AI is said to be partnering with the United Parcel Service to deploy its humanoids in shipping and logistics
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
This comes as CEO Brett Adcock takes legal action against Fortune over an article that alleges Figure overstated its robots' capabilitiespic.twitter.com/qY8VVhmuJ4Figure AI is said to be partnering with the United Parcel Service to deploy its humanoids in shipping and logistics This comes as CEO Brett Adcock takes legal action against Fortune over an article that alleges Figure overstated its robots' capabilities
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P-1 AI Launches Archie Engineering Agent with $23M Seed
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San Francisco-based P-1 AI emerged from stealth with $23M in seed funding
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2025
The company is building "Archie," an engineering-focused AI agent aimed at automating cognitive engineering taskspic.twitter.com/BOEVc6fmjgSan Francisco-based P-1 AI emerged from stealth with $23M in seed funding The company is building "Archie," an engineering-focused AI agent aimed at automating cognitive engineering tasks
