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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI  —  Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?
Kalley Huang / The Information:
Source: Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers, including key contributors to o1-mini and o3-mini, as Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort  —  Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues …
Wall Street Journal:
A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training  —  For 20 years, Reddit has pitched itself as “the front page of the internet.”  AI threatens to change that.
Moneycontrol:
Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures  —  The Flipkart co-founder is betting on a new AI-native OS for brands, built by his former team at Scapic and Flipkart Labs
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[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more  —  introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread): [video]
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Tesla says a Model Y drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to a buyer's home 30 minutes away, marking its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery  —  The milestone was achieved a day early.  But Tesla's robotaxis still require safety monitors and remote supervisors.
Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters:
The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software  —  The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its lawsuit challenging server maker Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE.N) …
Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg:
Walmart's Flipkart says about 200M Indian users engaged with social videos and livestreams promoting products on the platform in H1 2025, up from 75M a year ago  —  Using videos to showcase and sell products is one of the leading new forays at Flipkart, Neha Agrahari, a senior director at the retailer …
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit  —  One year into its copyright litigation, the Center for Investigative Reporting is still one of the only nonprofits to take the AI giant to court.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright  —  In the past week, big AI companies have — in theory — chalked up two big legal wins.  But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem …

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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