Big tech pushes scary AI stories to enforce regulations that block smaller competitors. pic.twitter.com/aWcoaY03Fn
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 8 février 2026
Big tech pushes scary AI stories to enforce regulations that block smaller competitors.
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Big Tech Uses AI Fear Stories to Block Smaller Competitors
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Managing Focus and Efficiency in High-Pressure Business Environments
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"It's getting harder and harder to stay focused, to be totally honest."
— Ronald Schmelzer (@rschmelzer) 8 février 2026
Constant noise from customers. From pressure. From information overload.
The risk? You become less and less efficient.
🔗 https://t.co/IfEp8EkjA1 pic.twitter.com/sWVc4raDXi"It's getting harder and harder to stay focused, to be totally honest." Constant noise from customers. From pressure. From information overload. The risk? You become less and less efficient. https://
scalebrate.com/podcast/10000-
customers-with-15-people-interview-with-raphael-bochner-sweepbright
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xAI Launches New Grok Imagine Image Models on API
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The new image models are now available on Grok Imagine API. Try them at docs.x.ai/developers/model-c…. Arena.ai (@arena) The new @xAI Grok-Imagine-Image model is a Pareto-optimal model in Image Arena: The Pareto frontier tells us which model has the highest Arena score at each price point. @xAi’s latest models have improved the frontier, giving optimal performance in the mid-price tier. For a wide range of prices between 2c and 8c per image, @elonmusk’s @xAI has the leading model, delivering the maximum performance. Top models on the Pareto frontier for Image Arena (Single Image Edit): – @OpenAI: GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity – @xAI: Grok Imagine Image Pro – @xAI: Grok Imagine Image – @bfl_ml: Flux 2 Klein 9B – @bfl_ml: Flux-2-Dev – @reve : V1.1 Fast See thread for how the frontier changes for Text-to-Image 🧵 — https://nitter.net/arena/status/2020215931646120004#m
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AI content sold on OnlyFans as a real person
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The avatar is also on OnlyFans. And here, we're no longer talking about TikTok money. We're talking about AI content sold to people who think they are talking to a real person.
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OpenAI Surpasses Google in Consumer AI Token Competition
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OpenAI Bests Google in Race for Consumer AI Token Consumption #AI #AIio #AIInnovation #ML #DataScience #Futureofwork @timnitgebru @oriolvinyalsml @ceobillionaire @soumithchintala @waitin4agi_ @sallyeaves @bernardmarr
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High Signal-to-Noise Technical AI Progress Tracking
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For me, "Whatever @simonw posts" has progressively become my main way to track technical x product progress in AI (both open and closed, though i'd love to see a bit more open) His tech x product signal-to-noise ratio is *very high*
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France’s 30M Euro AI Investment Criticized Against Silicon Valley’s 2.9T Dollar Program
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Monsieur le Président
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 6 février 2026
Vous vous rendez compte de l’absurdité de ce tweet ?
Vous vous félicitez d’un investissement de 30 millions d’euros. C’est pathétique
La Silicon Valley a un programme d’investissement de 2900 milliards de dollars sur la seule Intelligence Artificielle https://t.co/hinMJgFEOYMonsieur le Président Vous vous rendez compte de l’absurdité de ce tweet ? Vous vous félicitez d’un investissement de 30 millions d’euros. C’est pathétique La Silicon Valley a un programme d’investissement de 2900 milliards de dollars sur la seule Intelligence Artificielle
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SaaS Startup Disrupted by AI Emergence: A Personal Experience
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Actually in my last co (SaaS product) we clipped the beginning of the end just as AI just came out. Was a very important life experience.
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Software careers facing inverse Lollapalooza effects from AI
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Software is having inverse Lollapalooza Effects, even if you argue AI can’t do XYZ there’s still other factors that make it a bad career choice rn. Pic from a video from last year where I ranked popular digital jobs and (as usual) for taking the negative stance on software the
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Critique of industry claims regarding world models
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Ils ont vu les actions JV chuté avec Génie 3 ils se sont dit « jackpot » on va bricoler un truc et dire que c’est un world model MDRRRR