Good morning 👋 gamers and anyone who’s ever yelled at an NPC for walking in circles. If your latest game feels like it was coded by a drunk intern, you might be close to the truth. Electronic Arts has been enthusiastically shoving generative AI into development, and (shocker!) it’s going hilariously wrong. Devs are drowning in buggy code and glitched characters. When workers start openly mocking their bosses’ AI obsession in Slack memes, you gotta wonder what the endgame is.
🌈 Nvidia just dropped NVQLink to bridge Quantum with AI. Quantum computers are incredibly powerful but notoriously fragile, constantly throwing errors and needing real-time calibration to avoid losing coherence. NVQLink is an open-source protocol that lets AI expertly handle these rapid, precision tasks, stabilizing quantum processors so they can perform meaningful work. Looks like Nvidia solved quantum’s biggest problem: generating enough hype to keep the cash flowing.
💭 Amazon isn’t competing for AI cloud deals, and that could be a smart move. Consider this: AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider. So why aren’t they chasing any of the headline-grabbing multibillion dollar AI contracts that Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are landing? What’s really going on? Analysts say these deals come with huge upfront costs and razor-thin margins, making them riskier bets than they seem. While rivals sprint headfirst into an expensive AI arms race, Amazon knows the score: low profits + high overhead = unhappy investors.
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🤠 OpenAI has pulled off tech’s biggest corporate jailbreak. After months of tense negotiations, OpenAI ditched rules that blocked big-money deals and restructured into a public-benefit corporation valued at $500 billion. CEO Sam Altman walked away with zero equity, but Microsoft snagged a 27% stake now worth $135B – a clean 10x return. Microsoft also got rights to OpenAI’s tech through 2032, even if OpenAI hits AGI. The new structure creates the OpenAI Foundation, which now controls the for-profit arm. Microsoft gets no rights to hardware though, so at least AI wearables won’t be stuck installing Windows updates.
✍️ Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to gaslight reality itself. After promising an AI-powered Wikipedia replacement free from “propaganda,” Musk’s new encyclopedia immediately began rewriting history and pumping out extreme talking points. Grokipedia falsely claims that porn worsened the AIDS epidemic and calls social media a possible “contagion” fueling a rise in trans people. Meanwhile Musk himself gets a glowing 11,000 word tribute. It won’t be long before AI starts citing Grokipedia as an official source, permanently blurring the line between facts and whatever Elon decides is true.
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funding from a16z to AI slop phone farm startup Doublespeed ☎️ They plan to “automate attention,” deploying spam bots at scale for clients willing to spend $1,500 to $7,500 a month to “never pay a human again.”
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