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  1. 11H AGO

    🤖 xAI Loses Half Its Founding Team as Massive Exodus Rocks Elon Musk's AI Empire

    Half of xAI's founding team has departed in just one week amid the controversial $1.25 trillion merger with SpaceX and X. Co-founders Yuhai Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba are among nine engineers who've announced exits as the company prepares for a potential IPO. Meanwhile, AI is creating dangerous hallucinations in UK social work records, inserting false warnings about suicidal ideation that never occurred. OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team while launching ads in ChatGPT with major brands. Plus, NVIDIA's new compression tech could solve language model bottlenecks, and Anthropic commits to paying for power grid upgrades. The common thread: AI is advancing faster than our ability to govern it responsibly.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    7 min

  2. 11H AGO

    🤖 xAI Loses Half Its Founders As AI Powers Critical Healthcare—But At What Cost?

    Major upheaval at xAI as nine engineers exit in one week, including two co-founders, just after announcing history's largest merger. Meanwhile, AI chatbots are becoming the only mental health option for millions in Nigeria, operating without oversight as UK social workers discover AI tools generating dangerous false reports about children. Anthropic pledges to cover power grid costs as AI's energy demands strain local infrastructure, while OpenAI quietly disbands its Mission Alignment safety team and launches advertising in ChatGPT. Plus, Apple delays Siri's AI features again, and we examine what Moltbook's AI-only social network really reveals about our relationship with artificial intelligence.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    8 min

  3. 1D AGO

    🤖 Musk's Lunar AI Factory Plans Revealed as xAI Founders Exit

    Today's episode uncovers Elon Musk's shocking proposal to build an AI satellite factory on the moon, revealed as half of xAI's founding team departs ahead of a potential IPO. We examine how AI is forcing white-collar workers into career pivots, with freelance writers seeing their rates slashed in half for AI editing work. NVIDIA unveils breakthrough compression technology that makes serving large language models 20x more efficient. Plus, OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT's free tier while facing internal turmoil over adult content policies, Amazon plans an AI training data marketplace, and Runway raises $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation to build world models beyond video generation.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    8 min

  4. 2D AGO

    🤖 AI Ads Launch in ChatGPT as Jobs Vanish and Space Gets Smarter

    OpenAI officially rolls out advertising in ChatGPT's free tier while Telstra cuts hundreds of jobs in a controversial AI-driven restructuring. Economists warn companies may be using 'AI washing' to justify layoffs that have nothing to do with automation. ByteDance drops an open-source AlphaFold3 competitor, Microsoft takes machine learning into orbit with satellites that train AI in space, and the EU threatens Meta over chatbot blocking. Plus, Siemens' CEO reveals why general AI models fail spectacularly in factories, Anthropic closes in on $20 billion in new funding, and a surprising study shows AI power users are burning out faster than anyone else.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    7 min

  5. 3D AGO

    🤖 Robots Hit Their ChatGPT Moment as States Move to Block AI's Explosive Growth

    A major breakthrough brings language model scaling to robotics, potentially unlocking truly intelligent machines that learn like AI chatbots. Meanwhile, New York lawmakers propose a three-year moratorium on new data center construction as communities across the country push back against AI's massive infrastructure demands. ByteDance releases an open-source protein folding model matching AlphaFold3's capabilities, democratizing drug discovery tools. Plus, the Super Bowl becomes an AI advertising battleground, Crypto.com drops $70 million on a domain name, and new legislation would require labeling AI-generated news content. From breakthrough research to regulatory backlash, today's episode covers the stories shaping AI's rapid transformation of technology, science, and society.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    7 min

  6. 4D AGO

    🤖 AI Takes Over Super Bowl—Plus The Massive Merger That Just Reshaped Silicon Valley

    AI companies are flooding this Sunday's Super Bowl with commercials as the technology crosses into mainstream culture. Anthropic launches its first-ever ad taking shots at OpenAI, while the first fully AI-generated Super Bowl spot debuts. Meanwhile, Elon Musk just merged SpaceX and xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal that's rewriting the rules of founder power in tech. But not everyone's celebrating: New York becomes the sixth state proposing a moratorium on data centers as communities push back on AI's energy demands. Plus, Anthropic's new Opus 4.6 is shaking up agentic AI leaderboards, and Waymo unveils a world model that tests self-driving cars against virtual tornadoes and highway elephants.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    6 min

  7. 5D AGO

    🤖 AI Rewrites Art History & The End of Visual Truth

    AI challenges centuries of art authentication after questioning two Jan van Eyck masterpieces, while Benchmark bets $225M on Cerebras to challenge Nvidia's chip dominance. New York joins growing state opposition to data centers as AI companies plan $375B+ in infrastructure spending, prompting Elon Musk to explore orbital computing. Anthropic and OpenAI engage in rapid-fire model releases with Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex, both racing toward autonomous AI agents. Waymo unveils photorealistic world simulations for testing autonomous vehicles, as Instagram's chief declares we can no longer trust photographs or videos to represent reality. The foundations of visual evidence are crumbling just as AI becomes capable of generating indistinguishable synthetic worlds.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

    8 min

  8. 6D AGO

    🤖 Deepfake Fraud Goes Industrial as AI Giants Clash in $200B Infrastructure War

    The tools to create convincing deepfakes are now accessible to almost anyone, moving from niche technology to deployable-at-scale weapons of deception. Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI launch dueling models with million-token context windows and agentic capabilities, taking their rivalry to the Super Bowl. Amazon and Google plan nearly $400 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending as the race for compute capacity reaches unprecedented levels. But beneath the hype lies a darker reality: traumatized content moderators in rural India training AI systems, government facial recognition deployed without proper oversight, and platforms flooding the internet with AI-generated content prioritizing profit over authenticity. As AI agents gain the ability to autonomously purchase their own tools and infrastructure moves to orbital data centers, we're witnessing a fundamental transformation faster than society can adapt.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    297
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