Most Adults Read Fewer Than 5 Books a Year
That's 63% of us. Not because we don't want to read more, but because there isn't time.
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Replit has moved most of its AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI after OpenAI offered more than 30% off, and a new study finds Grok and GPT disagree in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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Replit moves most of its AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI · theinformation.com
A source says OpenAI gave Replit 30%+ off in a deal worth over $100M a year, after Anthropic ended its discount.
Grok recommends Republicans, GPT recommends Democrats · techcrunch.com
A new study found the two models disagreed in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races when forced to pick a candidate.
Kimi K3.1 Pro's launch draws scrutiny over paid influencers · venturebeat.com
Influencers were allegedly asked to promote Moonshot's model without disclosing a commercial relationship.
How Cerebras deploys trillion-parameter AI models · cerebras.ai
Cerebras explains how it runs trillion-parameter frontier models on its own systems.
Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads · theverge.com
Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, so ads made with AI now need a disclosure.
Apollo's Torsten Slok sees no AI payoff outside tech · apollo.com
He says US companies outside tech have had no financial payoff from AI, which they now treat as a cost center that hurts margins.
Goldman cuts its Kospi target by 25% as the AI trade unravels · bloomberg.com
Goldman strategists had raised their South Korea target repeatedly this year before slashing it on worries about the AI trade.
SoftBank's Son plans $50B of tech investment in Malaysia · bloomberg.com
Malaysia's prime minister says Masayoshi Son has chosen locations in the country for the $50 billion outlay.
Blackstone's CoreWeave loan became the template for chip-backed debt · bloomberg.com
A $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 started a kind of lending that is on track to become a $1T market.
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