great news for everyone building (lots of customers)
great news for everyone using AI (useful products)
great news for everyone making AI models (large cost is worth it)
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AI Benefits Builders Users Models Cost Worth
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AI Agents in Production: Success Stories and Overcoming Obstacles in LA
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Join us in LA on Thursday at @NeueHouse for an exciting evening diving into how AI Agent builders are overcoming obstacles and seeing success with AI Agents in production. More info here: https://
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Meta Targets Top AI Company CEOs in Recruitment Push
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Meta apparently ran a search for top AI companies by funding, and then just started calling the CEOs. If you are the CEO of an AI company that did not get a call from Zuckerberg, sorry.
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Replit overlooked in AI talent acquisition race by Big Tech
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I don’t hear Replit mentioned much in all this talk of AI talent and company acquisitions from Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft and others. Maybe that will change soon.
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Robotics breakthroughs: AI skin, major investments, military drones
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Top stories in robotics today: – New artificial robot skin can ‘feel’ pain
– Softbank eyes $1T robotics complex in Arizona
– Germany’s Neura Robotics to raise $1.15B – China’s mosquito-sized military drone
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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Funded AI Startup vs Free Open-Source Reddit Alternative
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– Cluey lève 15 millions
– Machine marketing bien huilée
– Battage médiatique constant
– Un mec lambda sur Reddit le rend open source gratuitement
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Claude AI for Instant Idea Validation and Market Simulation
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9. Instant idea validation engine
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 23 juin 2025
Want to test a startup idea, product feature, or marketing angle?
Claude can simulate market reactions, identify gaps, and stress-test your assumptions. pic.twitter.com/4mMnbrvR4q9. Instant idea validation engine Want to test a startup idea, product feature, or marketing angle? Claude can simulate market reactions, identify gaps, and stress-test your assumptions.
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Big Tech’s AI Talent Hunt and Latest AI Tools
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Top stories in AI today: – Apple, Meta hunt AI talent, startups
– Meta, Oakley bring AI to athletes – How to turn GitHub projects into coding inspiration
– AI resorts to blackmail, espionage in tests
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Why target AI model providers instead of base model creators?
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I don’t understand the models argument. Wouldn’t they still be reliant on GPT-X, Llama, Claude, etc? Why not just go after Anthropic or Cohere, or something along those lines?
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Apple Explores Acquisition Talks With AI Search Startup Perplexity
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Breaking news: Apple has held internal discussions to acquire Perplexity