The AI arms race just got a numbers game 🤖💰 Google’s latest move in the AI war isn’t flashy—it’s financial. While OpenAI dazzles with deep reasoning and tool-assisted agents, Google is quietly crushing them on cost efficiency, thanks to its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Running AI workloads at 80% lower cost than OpenAI’s Nvidia GPU reliance? That’s not just an advantage—it’s a knife to...
The esports industry, still nursing its hangover from the “esports winter,” has stumbled into AI with all the grace of a drunken gamer at a LAN party. Evil Geniuses—yes, the same org that somehow won Valorant in 2023—has unveiled Meesh, an AI chatbot mascot that answers fan questions with the enthusiasm of a sleep-deprived Discord mod. Meet Meesh: The Mascot Nobody Asked For 🤖 Meesh, a...
Google’s latest Workspace update proves AI will do anything—except shut up. Audio Overviews: Because Reading Is So 2024 Google just shoved its Audio Overviews feature into Gemini, turning your boring documents into riveting AI-generated podcasts. Because why read a report when you can have a robot dramatically recite it to you? 🤖 This feature, borrowed from NotebookLM, lets Gemini spin your...
Microsoft just unveiled AI “agents” that promise to transform your workday—but will they actually deliver, or is this another case of tech giant wishful thinking? 🤖💼 The “Agent Boss” Fantasy Microsoft’s latest Copilot update introduces Researcher and Analyst agents—essentially AI interns that supposedly handle complex tasks like synthesizing CRM data or prepping business...
Move over, ElevenLabs and OpenAI—there’s a new contender in the text-to-speech arena, and it’s not another corporate black box. Dia, a 1.6B-parameter open-source model from Nari Labs, is here to make proprietary TTS sound like a robotic hostage tape. Why Dia Matters (And Why You Should Care) Most open-source TTS models sound like they were trained on a diet of dial-up modem noises and 90s GPS...
The Forecast: Human-Level AI or Hot Air? A new report, AI 2027, predicts AGI (artificial general intelligence) will arrive by—you guessed it—2027, followed shortly by ASI (superintelligence). The authors, some ex-OpenAI and policy wonks, claim we’re on a 24-month sprint to machines that outthink us in everything. Bold. Conveniently, this aligns with Anthropic’s CEO saying the same thing. How…...
The Art of the Backpedal 🤡 In a move that shocked absolutely no one, Donald Trump has quietly shelved his plans for sweeping electronics tariffs—likely after realizing that tanking the stock market and pissing off every tech CEO isn’t the best re-election strategy. The proposed tariffs on semiconductors and consumer electronics would’ve been a disaster, jacking up prices on everything from the...
The AI arms race just got a nuclear reactor. VentureBeat’s latest piece drops a truth bomb: computing power has exploded from measly MIPS to exaflops in just four decades. That’s like going from a tricycle to a warp drive while Silicon Valley CEOs still can’t fix their own Wi-Fi. The Numbers Don’t Lie (But AI Might) We’re now crunching exaflops—that’s a billion billion operations per second. For...
Meta just dropped Llama 4, flexing a 2-trillion-parameter behemoth like it’s no big deal. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to figure out if Llama 3 was ever actually useful. But hey, bigger numbers mean progress, right? Right? The Models: Maverick, Scout, and… Behemoth? 🎠Llama 4 Maverick & Scout: Available now, with 1M+ token context windows (because who doesn’t love a model that...
Finally, some sanity in the AI pricing circus. Google just dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro—its “most intelligent model ever”—into public preview, and shockingly, it doesn’t require venture capital funding just to run a few API calls. At $1.25 per million input tokens, it’s cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet ($3M) and OpenAI’s GPT-4o ($2.50M). The AI Price War We Deserve Google’s move is a direct...