Elon Musk makes X a news site, Reid Hoffman deepfake, Tim Cook & Satya Nadella in Indonesia, trouble at Techstars and men and women equal on Bumble
Michiel Frackers
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"Musk said better citations are coming but shared a deeper vision for the product, which he wants to build into a real-time synthesizer of news and social media reaction. Effectively, his plan is to use AI to combine breaking news and social commentary around big stories, present the compilation live and allow you to go deeper via chat.
“As more information becomes available, the news summary will update to include that information,” Musk said. “The goal is simple: to provide maximally accurate and timely information, citing the most significant sources.”
That goal won’t be easy to achieve, but the bot might become a novel news product given its access to the X firehose. “Grok is analyzing sometimes tens of thousands of X posts to render a news summary,” Musk said."
I am very curious to see what news à la Musk will look like. It was not all wins for him this week, as Tesla's margin is now at 5% due to all the price cuts, much lower than is the norm in the auto industry (8%). Furthermore, key employees were laid off, keeping things unsettled around the company.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced during a visit to Indonesia that he will train as many as 840,000 people in the country to use AI and invest $1.7 billion in cloud services there. With both numbers, the question arises: how did they arrive at this figure?
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Donkey Kong on your iPhone or make your opening moves on Bumble, I hope I've given you something to do today.
Have a great Sunday and see you next week!