🦞 Rock lobster, Rockfish: Enterprises have a lot of data, but much of it can't be fully utilized because it's trapped in silos that don't talk to each other. Rockfish is helping enterprises bridge those silos using synthetic data. Read more
🥽 New AI lab just dropped: François Chollet, the famed AI researcher known for his work on deep learning during his decade-long stint at Google, is launching an AI lab of his own that will focus on artificial general intelligence. Read more
📰 AI and the media: If you are in line to announce a partnership between an AI company and a media org today, stay there! OpenAI and Axios announced they inked a deal that involves OpenAI funding the expansion of Axios' news room. Google's Gemini and The AP inked a deal of their own, too. Read more
🎙️ Mastodon on social media: What the future of social media looks like is unclear, but what is clear is that the landscape is changing. Equity sat down with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko to talk about what the free open source social platform has been up to and why Rochko thinks the future of social media is decentralized. Listen here
😬 Propaganda time: Users of e-reader Boox are finding that the AI model behind the e-reader is spewing propaganda about countries like China and North Korea. ByteDance's LLM, DouBao, powers this reader. Read more
