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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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▸ • Nvidia is reportedly dropping $12.9 billion to acquire open-source AI darling Hugging Face.
▸ • Meta's secret plan to replace workers with AI agents backfired when the bots started causing massive technical incidents.
▸ • Developers fired to make room for AI retaliated by building an open-source AI CEO.
Nvidia is reportedly buying open-source AI hub Hugging Face for a cool $12.9 billion. It's a massive flex that lets Jensen Huang protect his chip empire while simultaneously dominating the open-source AI software stack.
A Virginia startup called Operation Bluebird just launched "Twitter.now", arguing that Elon Musk legally abandoned the Twitter name and IP when he rebranded to X. They're plowing ahead with the launch despite an ongoing lawsuit from X Corp, which is certainly a choice.
Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with US states over child safety claims, promising to impose daily limits on teen social media use. The only wrinkle? The entire agreement hinges on age-verification technology that notoriously doesn't work very well.
The new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max packs a frankly absurd 9,210mAh dual-cell battery that Xiaomi claims will last three days on a single charge. It also features a photochromic design that changes in sunlight, because why not?
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg hatched "Project OT," a plan to slash teams by 60% and replace them with AI agents. The plan was quietly scrapped after the AI agents started making "large-scale, disruptive actions" that humans wouldn't do, leading to a 40% spike in major technical and security incidents. Turns out, you still need humans to keep the servers from catching fire.
OpenAI is starting to show advertisements on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India, where it boasts over 100 million weekly active users. It's a massive shift in OpenAI's business model, proving that no matter how advanced the neural network, all roads eventually lead to digital billboards.
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPUs to its data centers over the next two years to keep up with surging AI demand. Meanwhile, Nvidia is casually predicting it will pull in $108 billion in quarterly revenue within a few months.
In the ultimate Uno reverse card, developers who were fired by their CEO to "make room for AI" retaliated by building OpenExecutive—an open-source AI CEO. If we're automating jobs, we might as well start at the top of the org chart.
GitHub released a new Copilot app for beginners that automates Dependabot pull request triage. It's a welcome relief for anyone tired of drowning in a sea of minor version bumps and security patches.
The team at LAION just dropped the Big Video Dataset, providing researchers with a massive new corpus for training video generation models. Expect the open-source video AI wars to heat up significantly.
Samsung announced the 27-inch Odyssey G6 gaming monitor with a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate. Because apparently, we need our pixels updating faster than the speed of human thought to finally get out of Silver rank.
PayPal's app is now throwing a "RootDetectionSecurityException" and crashing on GrapheneOS, effectively locking privacy-conscious Android users out of their accounts.