Last year, @brave Search Ads saw a 1,500% increase in clicks, with 2.2 million monthly clicks in January 2025. The same month, organic search queries hit 1.3 billion—nearly 2x year-over-year. I recently interviewed Brave ads chief @jpschmetz about how Brave pitches search major
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NVIDIA Blackwell Sets MLPerf Records with GB200 NVL72
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In the latest #MLPerf Inference v5.0 round, the NVIDIA Blackwell platform set records — and marked NVIDIA’s first MLPerf submission using the GB200 NVL72 system, which delivered up to 30x more throughput on the Llama 3.1 405B benchmark.
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Twitter Hashtag AI History SXSW Panel 2015
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The date-range search now works again here, so I traced back the history. There was a SXSW panel in March 2015 which used the Twitter hashtag first. Towards the end of 2015 people were increasingly using the tag with projects/research, but 2016 was the popularization.
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Model Now Available to Free Users
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Google’s new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too https://
engadget.com/ai/googles-new
-experimental-ai-model-gemini-25-pro-is-now-available-to-free-users-too-150005863.html?src=rss
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OpenAI Reaches 20M Paid Users, $5B Annual Revenue
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OpenAI has just hit 20M paid users and is clocking $415M in monthly revenue—with an ARR of $5B
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 2 avril 2025
This comes on the back of $40B funding and the booming demand for ChatGPT and its viral image generation capabilities (now accessible to all free users)!pic.twitter.com/lP7oocU6IwOpenAI has just hit 20M paid users and is clocking $415M in monthly revenue—with an ARR of $5B This comes on the back of $40B funding and the booming demand for ChatGPT and its viral image generation capabilities (now accessible to all free users)!
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GPT-4o Leads Updated Text-to-Image Model Leaderboard
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gpt-4o is the lead on the updated leader-board: https://
artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-image/
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Artificial Analysis: Comparing AI Models Across Intelligence, Speed, Price
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People at Artificial Analysis are doing good job on comparing models across important axes: intelligence, speed, and price. And for all modalities and tasks: language, speech, video, image, code. Benchmarks are not perfect but there is no other way to know a model is better than
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Atlas Humanoid Robot Leads Film Industry Innovation
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Humanoid robots are stepping onto film sets, and Atlas is leading the way https://
mashable.com/video/atlas-hu
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Tech Giants Regulation: Five Experts Testify on Internet Competition
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"AMERICA" = "Advertising Middlemen Endangering Rigorous Internet Competition Accountability" Five experts testifying today:
– @KamylBazbaz of DuckDuckGo
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Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Debates AMERICA Act Against Digital Ad Monopolies
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Happening now: U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee is holding a hearing about the re-introduction of the "AMERICA Act." The bill, first intro'd in 2023, would ban monopolies from owning multiple parts of the digital ad supply chain and eliminate inherent conflicts of interest.