🤝 OpenAI slips ChatGPT into group chats
OpenAI is piloting group conversations where up to 20 people and the bot can chat together across mobile and web. It’s rolling out in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Search, images, files, and dictation are enabled by default. A bit awkward at first… but handy for planning.
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🚧 xAI pushes Grok 5 to next year
Elon Musk now says Grok 5 won’t arrive until early 2026. He’s still promising the most intelligent model-tool use, web search, even live video comprehension.
The buildout is costly, with xAI scaling toward a million GPUs. Big dreams, big invoices.
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💸 Traders hedge as the AI debt machine revs
Credit desks are buying protection tied to hyperscalers, with the cost of derivatives on Oracle’s bonds more than doubling since September.
Volume in related CDS jumped to about $4.2B over six weeks. Not doom-just nerves… or so it seems.
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😬 ‘Two guys pretending to be AI’
A Fireflies.ai co-founder says the startup’s earliest “AI that joins your meeting” was, at first, just him and his partner silently dialing in and taking notes.
Human-in-the-loop, sure-but yikes on the disclosure. Duct tape now; real product later, maybe.
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🎬 Big content vs AI isn’t a fairytale
The Guardian argues media giants and AI firms are striking deals that can leave artists out in the cold.
David v Goliath? More like Goliath v Goliath, with creatives squeezed in the middle.
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⚖️ OpenAI and Anthropic hit with fresh ‘piracy’ broadsides
An Indian Express column spotlights new lawsuits over training data, arguing AI’s real costs are masked by subsidies and sweetheart deals.
Opinionated, yes, but the frustration is boiling over as licensing hush-hush meets courtroom noise.
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