Google offers its US Platforms and Devices team voluntary buyouts, Amazon increasing spending on Mississippi data centers by 60%, and Mark Zuckerberg explains why Meta was slow to adapt to TikTok.
Microsoft integrates OpenAI’s o1 model into Copilot and gives Copilot users free access to it. PLus Microsoft is making a NPC optimzed version of DeepSeek’s R1 model to run locally on Copilot+PC machines. Google is launching “Ask for me,” a new Search Lab experiment that uses AI to call businesses for local service pricing and availability. And Facebook realizes is no longer relevant to younger audiences.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.
Microsoft announced new Intel-powered Surface PCs for Business, Waymo Expanded to 10 new cities, and Microsoft integrated DeepSeek’s R1 model into Azure and GitHub.
OpenAI tells the Financial Times that it found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used OpenAI’s proprietary models to train its system. An anti-AI scrapping activist creates a tarpit to trap AI crawlers in an endless maze of links to nowhere. Plus Xbox’s Phil Spencer made an interesting comment about hard exclusives on the platform. And how do teens really feel about the tech industry and the dangers of the AI industry?
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
As generative AI develops much of the focus has been on the human-like quality of their output. But what does the data show regarding how AI-human interaction creating a feedback loop that impacts our biases. X has partnered with Visa to offer peer-to-peer fund transfer. Is it enough to pull people back to the platform and will existing users even use it? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reported on a study that shows almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN.
Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, Visa and X partner to facilitate payments for X users, and Apple patched an actively exploited zero-day affecting multiple devices.