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Spotify Just Made Parental Controls Free Because Regulators Are Watching. AI-Generated.
Spotify is removing the paywall from something that arguably shouldn't have been behind one in the first place: basic parental controls over what your kid listens to.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
A Startup Thinks Your Fortnite Sessions Might Be The Missing Piece Of AGI, and Bezos Just Bet $320 Million On It. AI-Generated.
Large language models can write poetry, debug code, and pass the bar exam. What they still can't reliably do is understand how a coffee cup moves when you knock it off a table, or how to navigate an unfamiliar hallway without bumping into a wall.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
A Former OpenAI Executive Just Joined The Board Of SpaceX's Most Credible Competitor And The Timing Isn't A Coincidence. AI-Generated.
Kevin Weil has one of the more unusual resumes in Silicon Valley: senior roles at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and, most recently, OpenAI, where he spent over a year as chief product officer before leading an internal effort to accelerate scientific research using AI.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Uber Is About To Swallow One Of Europe's biggest food delivery companies, and it's Already Restructuring To Avoid The Antitrust Fight. AI-Generated.
Uber is closing in on a deal to acquire Delivery Hero for approximately €12.5 billion, according to Financial Times reporting, and the structure of the deal reveals almost as much as the price tag itself.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
TSMC Just Posted A 77% Profit Jump And It's Not Even Close To Peaking Yet. AI-Generated.
TSMC just posted a number that should reframe how seriously anyone is taking the "is the AI boom cooling off" conversation.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Nvidia Teams Up With Japan’s Top Robotics Giants To Build Next‑Gen Physical AI. AI-Generated.
Jensen Huang spent this week in Tokyo doing something most tech CEOs would never generate this kind of reaction for: announcing an industrial partnership.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Claude AI's Anthropic Just Got Beat by a Startup Nobody Had Heard of Last Year. AI-Generated.
China's Moonshot AI just proved the "12-month lag" theory might be dead on arrival There's a very specific kind of tech-world anxiety happening right now, and it's not about robots taking over.
By Eina Liban2 months ago in 01
The Real AI Race Is No Longer About Frontier Models. AI-Generated.
For weeks this summer, the AI world was fixated on Anthropic’s newest frontier releases and Washington’s debates over who should get access to them. But while the spotlight stayed on those headline‑making models, developers were quietly building something else, and they weren’t waiting for permission from the biggest names in the industry.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Telegram’s t.me Shortlink Domain Restored After Day-Long Suspension Tied to U.S. Sanctions Compliance. AI-Generated.
The domain powering Telegram’s most widely used link‑sharing system has been fully reinstated after an unexpected 24‑hour outage that blocked access to millions of public group, channel, and profile links worldwide, a disruption that affected users across every region where the messaging platform operates.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
I’m De‑Influencing You From Buying the RingConn 3. AI-Generated.
I’ve put off buying a wearable health tracker for years, mostly because almost all of them look terrible. I don’t want a glowing smartwatch strapped to my wrist, and the woven Whoop band feels like something I’d have made at summer camp, not something I’d wear to work or dinner.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Open‑Model Startup Reflection AI Lands $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius. AI-Generated.
Reflection AI, the fast‑rising U.S. startup dedicated to building high‑performance open‑weight AI models, has signed a $1 billion multi‑year compute agreement with European AI infrastructure provider Nebius.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
12 States Just Declared War On Hollywood's Biggest Merger And They're Betting The DOJ Got It Wrong. AI-Generated.
The U.S. Department of Justice already looked at Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and concluded it wasn't likely to harm competition or consumers.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01