Jyoti Mann
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NEW: 500K+ people tried Meta’s Muse about a week after it launched, according to internal data reviewed by @theinformation
Roughly a week after it rolled out, it gained 250K DAUs.
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Scoop: Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have been holding regular discussions about creating an AI industry standards body, meeting as recently as this past week even as efforts in the White House stalled.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also discussed moving the idea forward without the government in a company town hall this past week
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News: Salesforce last October added "Agentforce" to the names of more than a dozen top products last fall—Sales Cloud became Agentforce Sales, for example. Now Salesforce is switching back to the previous product names. More here (w/@LauraBratton5)
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New: Thinking Machines' latest round, Nvidia in talks to participate (could be a big check)
More details + what the fundraise might mean with @steph_palazzolo, @julia_hornstein for @theinformation:
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $1b+ at a $40b+ valuation, below the $50b+ price it was raising at last fall.
Still, it's an impressive multiple for a startup generating 100s of millions in annual. rev
@_pheebini @julia_hornstein
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Exclusive: As Meta gears up to release its consumer AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks, I spoke to people familiar with the effort and reviewed internal employee posts documenting months of testing.
Staffers have shared safety concerns including instances where the agent took actions without permission, and exposed sensitive info.
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I wrote earlier this week about how Elon Musk has brought in some leaders in recent weeks from SpaceX's rocket business to address concerns about the civil engineering and reliability of its data centers
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🚨NEW: Meta told employees this week that it “will not use AI adoption dashboards or token counts to evaluate impact” in performance reviews.
The shift comes after encouraging employees to be more “AI native” — a push that inadvertently led to tokenmaxxing.
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With @amir and @steph_palazzolo
📰 Chain of thought monitoring has become one of the most important techniques in AI safety and security, especially in the wake of the HF incident, but Astra uses a new technique that allows more thinking to happen silently between tokens
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Elon Musk has shaken up the SpaceX team building the company’s data centers in recent weeks, replacing several leaders with executives from SpaceX’s rocket and satellite internet businesses, people familiar with the matter said.
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🚨big news y'all: Nvidia agrees to take Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. More details below
LATE NIGHT SCOOP w/ @rocketalignment @amir: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, in a deal that would value the startup at about $6 billion.
They talked to OpenAI about an acquisition last year but that deal fell apart.
1X tried last fall to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, but it only raised less than half that target.
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Today’s scoop: Another OpenAI enterprise sales leader is returning to Salesforce. Peter Doolan is following in the footsteps of Kaylin Voss, whose exit I reported last week. @theinformation
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Why is no one talking about the crisis of naming in AI? How is anyone supposed to remember?
More exclusive Meta model updates from @jyoti_mann1
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (@jyoti_mann1 / The Information)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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.@harvey is in talks to raise $500m + at a $15.5b valuation (post-$), a 40% premium to its last round 5 months ago. harvey is currently generating >$350m in annualized revenue, and @lightspeedvp has been interested in leading the round. 💸💸💸
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SCOOP: Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model hacked into another company after accessing the internet during cybersecurity testing.
