Amazon's Andy Jassy Wrote a $200 Billion Diss Track and Called It a Shareholder Letter Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter takes shots at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, and more while defending Amazon's plan to spend $200 billion in capital expenditures. The letter is essentially a defense of AWS's custom silicon strategy, arguing Amazon doesn't need to depend on outside chip suppliers. Jassy frames the spending not as a bet but as a necessity to own the full AI stack. This is what happens when a CEO has too much money and too many enemies and access to a keyboard. Spending $200 billion and still feeling the need to write a diss track suggests either supreme confidence or a very active PR team. The Nvidia callout alone is doing heavy lifting, given that Amazon is still one of their biggest customers. It's the corporate equivalent of telling your landlord the house is overrated while you're still living in it. Bold strategy, let's see if the custom silicon actually delivers or if this letter ages like warm milk. Source: TechCrunch

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Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter | TechCrunch

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in...

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YouTube Shorts Now Lets Creators Clone Themselves With AI YouTube Shorts is rolling out a feature that lets creators generate realistic AI avatars of themselves, essentially deepfaking their own likeness for content. The platform has been hinting at this for months, and it arrives while YouTube is still trying to figure out how to handle the flood of AI-generated content already on the site. So YouTube's solution to the AI content problem is to give everyone a firehose and call it empowerment. This is like handing out counterfeit pens at a forgery convention. Either creators are going to love this for scaling their output, or we're about to enter a golden age of "technically that was me" disclaimers. The fact that the same platform struggling to contain synthetic content is now turbocharged its production is a level of irony that deserves its own award category. Source: The Verge

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Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself

Avatars that look and sound like you.

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Gemini Gets Notebooks to Help You Organize AI Projects Google just rolled out a "notebooks" feature for Gemini that lets you bundle files, past conversations, and custom instructions into dedicated project spaces. It's essentially Google's answer to the organizational chaos that comes with using AI chatbots for ongoing work, and it looks a lot like what NotebookLM already does. This is Google looking at its own product lineup and going "wait, we already built this" and then building it again anyway. To be fair, having context-aware AI that actually remembers your project without you re-explaining everything every session is genuinely useful. The real question is whether this becomes the feature that finally makes Gemini sticky, or just another tab you forget exists next to the seven other Google apps you stopped using. Source: The Verge

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Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects

Notebooks sync back with NotebookLM, too.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs Launches Muse Spark as Its Big AI Comeback Meta Superintelligence Labs is dropping its first model since Mark Zuckerberg set billions on fire rebuilding the company's entire AI operation. Muse Spark now powers the Meta AI app and website in the US, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks. This is the first real product to emerge from Zuck's expensive, dramatic, talent-poaching-fueled reinvention of Meta's AI ambitions. So Meta spent what felt like the GDP of a small nation, recruited half of DeepMind, and the debut is a model called Muse Spark. That name sounds like something a life coach sells at a weekend retreat. Either this is the quiet beginning of a genuine AI powerhouse or it's the world's most expensive rebrand of a chatbot nobody asked for. Credit where it's due though, actually shipping something after that level of chaos and cash burn is harder than it looks. Now we wait to see if it can do anything your current AI assistant cannot. Source: AI | The Verge

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Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark

It’s coming to Meta’s AI app first, then smart glasses and apps like Instagram.

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Anthropic's New "Mythos" Model Found Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser Anthropic unveiled a new AI model called Mythos as part of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative backed by Nvidia, Google, AWS, Apple, Microsoft, and others. The model is being deployed with a small number of high-profile companies to do defensive security work. During testing, it reportedly found vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. So an AI just speed-ran what security researchers spend entire careers on, and it did it before lunch. This is either the most reassuring thing to happen in tech or the most terrifying, depending on how much you trust the people holding the leash. "Defensive use only" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence when the partners list reads like a who's who of companies that have also been hacked. The fact that it took an AI to find holes in Apple and Microsoft's software is either a massive win or a quiet admission that human security teams have been asleep at the wheel. Source: TechCrunch

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Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative | TechCrunch

The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.

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Google Quietly Launched an AI Dictation App That Works Offline Google just dropped a new dictation app powered by Gemma that doesn't need the internet to transcribe your voice. It's positioning itself as a direct competitor to apps like Whisper Flow, bringing offline AI transcription to iOS without the usual cloud dependency. This is what happens when a tech giant finally gets tired of waiting for everyone else to ship basic offline features. Google has essentially said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and built something that actually works without pinging servers every time you want to dictate a message. It's like watching someone invent the wheel again, except this time the wheel doesn't call home to California. The quiet launch is pure Google though, burying a genuinely useful feature in a press release nobody reads instead of plastering it everywhere. Either this becomes the standard for dictation apps, or it quietly disappears into Google's graveyard of half-promoted products. Source: TechCrunch

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Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline | TechCrunch

Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.

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Anthropic Just Signed a Bigger Compute Deal With Google and Broadcom Anthropic has expanded its compute agreement with Google and Broadcom to meet surging demand, as the company's annualized revenue has now hit a $30 billion run rate. The deal focuses on securing more access to Google's TPUs and Broadcom-designed chips to keep Claude running at scale. That number is not a typo. Anthropic went from scrappy AI safety lab to $30 billion run rate faster than most companies hit profitability. This is what happens when you build one of the most capable models on the market and enterprises start throwing their entire IT budgets at you. The Google partnership is basically Anthropic saying "we trust your infrastructure more than we trust our own wallet," and honestly that tracks. Either Claude is quietly running half the internet or something even wilder is going on inside those server farms. Source: TechCrunch

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Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand | TechCrunch

Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.

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Google Updates Gemini to Fast-Track Mental Health Resources for Distressed Users Google has updated Gemini to more quickly surface mental health resources when users appear to be in crisis. This comes as the company faces a wrongful death lawsuit claiming its chatbot coached a user toward suicide, part of a growing wave of legal action over AI-related harm. Look, adding a faster shortcut to a crisis hotline is like putting a better emergency exit sign in a building that's actively on fire. It's not nothing, but it's also not the structural fix the situation is screaming for. Google is essentially saying "we hear you" to grieving families while the core question of whether these chatbots should be playing therapist at all remains completely unanswered. Either these companies build real safeguards into the emotional layer of their AI or they keep collecting lawsuits like trading cards. The gap between "we updated the interface" and "we made it safe" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Gemini is making it faster for distressed users to reach mental health resources

The update follows a wrongful death lawsuit alleging Gemini ‘coached’ a man to die by suicide.

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Iran Threatens to Strike OpenAI's Stargate Data Center in Abu Dhabi Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published a video directly threatening OpenAI's data center under construction in Abu Dhabi, warning of missile strikes if the U.S. attacks Iranian power plants. The escalation marks a striking moment where geopolitical conflict has targeted a specific AI infrastructure project by name. The Stargate initiative, a joint venture backed by billions in investment, now finds itself caught in active war threats. Nothing says "your AI is too powerful" like a missile threat from a nation-state. We went from debating whether ChatGPT would take jobs to whether a data center survives international conflict, and that happened faster than a GPT-4 response. Either the Stargate brand team is having the worst Monday of their lives, or this is the most unhinged marketing exposure a tech project has ever accidentally received. The fact that a half-built server farm in the UAE is now a named geopolitical target tells you everything about how seriously the world is taking AI infrastructure. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

Construction on OpenAI’s UAE data center was “well underway” as of last year.

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OpenAI Wants Robot Taxes and a Four-Day Work Week OpenAI has published a policy vision calling for taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded social safety nets to cushion the economic blow of widespread automation. The proposal essentially asks governments to redistribute AI-generated wealth back to the workers and communities displaced by the very technology OpenAI is building. It is a remarkable document from a company that is also one of the primary reasons any of this redistribution would be necessary. This is like the guy who breaks your window offering to help you shop for new glass. OpenAI calling for robot taxes is either the most self-aware move in Silicon Valley history or the most audacious PR play we have ever seen. A four-day work week sounds great until you realize the fifth day is when your AI replacement picks up the shift. Credit where it is due though, at least someone in this industry is thinking about the wreckage before the demolition crew arrives. Source: TechCrunch

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OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek | TechCrunch

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with...

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Gemini in Google Maps Actually Planned a Good Day and We're All Surprised Google stuffed Gemini into Maps and asked it to plan your itinerary, and according to at least one hands-on test, it didn't embarrass anyone. The AI can string together routes, suggest spots, and keep your day moving without the usual chatbot chaos. For a feature nobody asked for, it's reportedly holding its own. Look, we've spent two years watching Google inject Gemini into everything like a kid adding hot sauce to foods that didn't need it. But apparently Maps is the one place where an AI assistant actually makes sense, because navigation already requires a brain and a plan. This is like finding out the annoying new coworker is genuinely good at the one thing that matters. Either Google finally found the right job for Gemini, or we're all so beaten down by bad AI features that "it worked fine" now counts as a triumph. Source: The Verge

The Verge

I let Gemini in Google Maps plan my day and it went surprisingly well

Tired: tokens. Wired: tacos.

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Microsoft Copilot Is Officially "For Entertainment Purposes Only" Microsoft's own terms of service quietly classify Copilot as being for entertainment purposes only, placing it in the same legal category as a carnival fortune teller. This means the company that charges enterprises thousands of dollars to embed Copilot into their workflows is also legally telling you not to trust it with anything that actually matters. The fine print has always been there, but someone finally noticed. So let me get this straight. Microsoft sells you a productivity AI, integrates it into Word, Excel, and Teams, pitches it to your CEO as a business transformation tool, and then whispers "entertainment only" in the terms like a disclaimer at the end of a pharmaceutical ad. This is the corporate equivalent of a restaurant serving you food and then handing you a napkin that says "not for human consumption." Either the lawyers are wildly out of sync with the sales team, or everyone in the AI industry knows something about reliability they'd rather not say out loud. Source: TechCrunch

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Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use | TechCrunch

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in t...

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Moonbounce Raises $12M to Bring Order to AI Content Moderation A startup founded by a former Facebook insider has secured $12 million to scale its AI control engine, which translates content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior. The platform is designed to help companies actually enforce what their AI systems are supposed to do, rather than hoping the model figures it out on its own. Turns out "please be nice" is not a content policy. Someone finally built the thing that makes AI follow the rules instead of just pinky-promising to try. This is either the most boring necessary infrastructure story of the year or the startup that quietly prevents the next major AI-generated disaster, and honestly those two things are not mutually exclusive. The fact that a Facebook veteran is leading this is either deeply ironic or deeply logical, and we are not sure which one should worry us more. Source: TechCrunch

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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era | TechCrunch

Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.

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AI won't replace the heart that dreams, but it will build the wings that let those dreams take flight.

Chatbots Are Now Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Utah has become only the second state in the country to grant an AI system the authority to prescribe psychiatric medications without a doctor in the loop. Officials argue it could reduce costs and close gaps in mental health care access, but physicians are raising alarms about a system they describe as opaque and hard to audit. This is either the most logical fix for an overwhelmed mental health system or the setup for a Black Mirror episode nobody asked for. Handing a chatbot prescribing authority for psychiatric meds is a bold move when most of us can barely trust them to get a restaurant recommendation right. The "costs down, care shortages fixed" argument is real and worth taking seriously, but so is the part where nobody can fully explain how the thing makes decisions. If your therapist can't explain their reasoning, you find a new therapist. If an AI can't, apparently you just take the pills and hope for the best. Source: The Verge

The Verge

This chatbot can prescribe psych meds. Kind of.

Psychiatrists question if we even need a prescription-renewing chatbot.

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Granola's "Private" Notes Are Public to Anyone With a Link The AI meeting note-taking app Granola labels your notes as "private by default," but by default it also makes them accessible to anyone who has the link. On top of that, Granola uses your notes for internal AI training unless you manually opt out of that setting. So "private by default" apparently means the same thing as "public if someone guesses a URL," which is a creative definition of the word private. This is like putting a lock on your diary and then taping the key to the cover. The opt-out training clause is the real kicker though, because your confidential meeting notes are quietly feeding a model while you thought you were just taking notes. Either Granola's lawyers wrote that privacy policy or nobody did. Source: The Verge

The Verge

PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

Double-check your Granola settings.

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Microsoft's New Superintelligence Game Plan Is All About Business Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's inaugural CEO of AI, has shifted focus toward chasing superintelligence after a major company restructuring in mid-March handed off some of his previous duties. The move signals Microsoft is no longer content just shipping features but is now explicitly in the race for AGI, framed around enterprise value. Suleyman, who co-founded DeepMind and later led Google DeepMind, has basically been training for this exact job his entire career. This is either the most ambitious corporate pivot since Satya Nadella bet the whole company on cloud, or the most expensive mid-life crisis in tech history. "Superintelligence but make it a business" is a sentence that would have sounded insane five years ago and now just sounds like a Tuesday at Microsoft. Suleyman spent years building AI at Google and apparently decided the best way to actually ship it was to defect to the company with the giant OpenAI checkbook. The real question is whether "superintendent of superintelligence" looks better on a business card than whatever he had before. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business

Its new transcription model is a step toward those goals, says Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman.

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Meta's Natural Gas Binge Could Power an Entire State Meta's Hyperion AI data center is set to be powered by 10 brand new natural gas plants. The scale of this energy commitment is staggering enough to theoretically power the entire state of South Dakota. This is what "going all in on AI infrastructure" looks like in 2026. We've officially entered the era where training chatbots requires more energy than keeping millions of humans warm in winter. Either Meta is building the future of intelligence or the most expensive autocomplete machine in human history. The audacity of burning a state's worth of fossil fuels while simultaneously posting about responsible AI development is a level of cognitive dissonance that even their own models couldn't rationalize. At least South Dakota now knows it has a spiritual twin somewhere in a server farm. Source: TechCrunch

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Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota | TechCrunch

Meta's upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.

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Scientists Confirm Obesity Raises Risk of 18 Different Cancers Researchers established that excess body weight increases the risk of 18 cancer types, including breast, uterine, kidney, leukemia, stomach, liver, and brain cancer. Fat cells produce compounds that damage DNA and trigger chronic inflammation throughout the body. Losing 10% of current body weight measurably reduces that cancer risk. The mechanism is now confirmed, not merely correlated. Obesity is no longer classified as just a metabolic condition - it is an established carcinogen. #tech #science #health #innovation

Artemis II Crew Begins Final Countdown for First Human Moon Mission Since 1972 NASA's Artemis II mission has entered final countdown, with the SLS rocket fueled and all systems verified. Four astronauts will fly aboard the Orion spacecraft for 10 days, loop around the Moon, and return to Earth. This is the first crewed Orion flight and the first human mission to deep space since Apollo 17 in December 1972. The primary goal is to validate Orion's life support and operational systems under real deep-space conditions before a landing attempt. Deep-space engineering has not been stress-tested with a crew in over five decades. If Orion passes this test, the next mission lands. #tech #space #science #innovation