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Meta chose licensing over acquisition with Midjourney, tapping the profitable AI lab's aesthetic technology while preserving its independence. The deal signals a new model for successful AI startups to monetize expertise without surrendering control.
22.8.2025 21:17Meta licenses Midjourney’s “aesthetic tech” as talks shift from takeover to tie-upApple approaches Google to power Siri's AI brain, marking a potential shift from internal control to external partnerships. The talks reveal constraints facing even tech's most valuable company when core technologies evolve faster than resources can follow.
22.8.2025 21:05Apple explores Google Gemini for Siri brainOpenAI quietly scrapes Google Search results to power ChatGPT while positioning itself as Google's rival. The practice reveals messy dependencies behind AI's search ambitions as user behavior shifts toward longer, conversational queries.
22.8.2025 14:16OpenAI’s rivalry paradox: ChatGPT reportedly leans on Google resultsGoogle reveals Gemini AI uses 0.24 watt-hours per prompt, setting new industry standard. Plus: Musk approached Zuckerberg for OpenAI bid details.
22.8.2025 13:08Your Prompt Uses 0.24 watt-hours; Musk Pitched Zuck $97.4B for OpenAIGoogle breaks AI energy silence with first granular data: 0.24 watt-hours per Gemini prompt. But critics challenge what's excluded from the math, setting up a new fight over measuring AI's true environmental cost.
22.8.2025 11:42Google says a prompt uses 0.24 Wh. Researchers say the math is incomplete.Court filings reveal Elon Musk approached Mark Zuckerberg about financing a $97.4B bid to acquire OpenAI earlier this year. Meta declined, but the approach signals how AI competition drives unlikely alliances in Silicon Valley.
22.8.2025 11:30Musk asked Zuckerberg to back a $97.4 billion OpenAI bid, filings showMeta freezes AI hiring after billion-dollar spree. DeepSeek matches Claude at 1/68th cost. Google tests AI over thinness. See the industry shift.
21.8.2025 13:00Meta Halts AI Hiring After $1.5B Bidding BingeMeta abruptly froze AI hiring after offering researchers packages up to $1.5 billion, ending a months-long talent war. The move follows investor warnings about soaring compensation costs and questions about AI returns across the industry.
21.8.2025 12:06Meta Hits Pause on AI Hiring as Reorgs and Costs BiteGoogle's Pixel 10 Pro Fold makes history as the first IP68 dust-resistant foldable, but it's heavier than Samsung's ultra-thin Galaxy Z Fold 7. The real battle: Google bets AI capabilities will matter more than millimeters. Different timelines, different winners.
21.8.2025 11:41Google’s foldable fork: thin Samsung, thick Google, and a bet on AIDeepSeek's V3.1 delivers Claude-level coding performance at 1/70th the cost through open source. The Chinese startup's MIT-licensed model challenges American AI economics while optimizing for domestic chips—signaling parallel ecosystems.
21.8.2025 11:11DeepSeek’s V3.1 goes open, targets parity at a fraction of the costAI investment hits reality: Americans use assistants like 2018 despite billions spent. Meta's 4th restructure in 6 months reveals execution costs.
20.8.2025 12:31The $72 Billion Weather AppTech giants spent billions upgrading Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant with AI. Americans still use them for weather checks and timers—exactly like 2018. Fresh YouGov data reveals why the utility gap persists.
20.8.2025 11:33Weather, music, timers: Americans still use assistants like it’s 2018DeepSeek's quiet V3.1 release matches frontier AI performance while staying open-source, forcing closed-model leaders to justify premium pricing. US agencies study it under guardrails despite official bans—a pragmatic split emerging.
20.8.2025 00:29DeepSeek’s V3.1 lands quietly—and pushes the open-weight fightMeta's fourth AI restructuring in six months reveals deeper problems than leadership changes suggest. Nine-figure compensation packages and internal cultural breakdown signal competitive weakness in the AI race, not strength.
20.8.2025 00:11Meta splits AI division again as ambition outruns executionSilicon Valley tech leaders panic online about NYC's socialist mayoral nominee, but 200 executives who met Zohran Mamdani in person tell a different story. The geographic divide reveals how distance distorts political risk assessment in tech.
19.8.2025 13:37Silicon Valley Panic, New York Briefing: Tech’s Two Stories About Zohran Mamdani