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Elon Musk (Doge) government efficiency department is set to reduce government spending by canceling contracts and firing thousands of employees in all federal agencies (but also hurriedly returning hundreds of them). On Saturday, Doge asked all federal employees to send an email that ranked the work they had done last week to evaluate whether their positions were needed. These e -mail responses are expected to be swallowed by a model to determine which roles to cut, NBC News reported, though over the weekend the administration said filling electronic posts was voluntary as numerous federal agencies guided the employee not to the answer.
It is not the first time that the use of artificial intelligence has appeared as Doge moves through the government. At the beginning Washington Post reported. Doge is also building a custom chatbot called GSAI for the US General Services Administration to increase employee productivity, Wire reported.
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Huge appearance
Weeks after announcing a joint infrastructure initiative it is $ 500 billion called Stargate, but another technology giant has made a The massive pledge of his investment. On Monday, Apple announced plans to invest $ 500 billion in the infrastructure. The creator of the iPhone Plans to build a server factory he 250,000 square meters in Houston, Texas. The news comes as Microsoft, who Canceled rents for some data centersseems to be rethinking its database strategy as Openai change Its calculator needs from Microsoft to Oracle.
Peak performance
The many companies of him, including Openai and Purplexity, have begun systems that they claim they can perform in -depth By scrounging online for information and presenting an analysis. Last week, Google joined the quarrels with her He “co-scientist” He said he could help scientists generate hypotheses and research proposals.
AND Anthropic, which is reported to be completing a round of $ 3.5 billion, released A new agent model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, This can use computer applications and have better coding performance. The beginnings of coding it as a cursor and recognition were quick to add the model to their applications.
The agreements of that of the week
It was a busy week in the world of collecting funds after numerous beginnings announced giant investment rounds.
The start of that recruitment of that Mercor raised a $ 100 million round series with a $ 2 billion rating.
The start of the Cloud Lambda Labs calculation collected $ 480 million in a $ 2.5 billion rating.
Together, which envisions where he can run and train models, collected $ 305 million in a $ 3.3 billion rating
The start of health care he raised $ 75 million in a $ 1 billion rating, CNBC reported.
He’s Basin’s conclusion platform raised $ 75 million in a $ 825 million rating.
Leak
He chatbots have a tendency to “Love Bomb” their users, Says Quinten Farmer, CEO of AI Tolan Voice Start. Most of his companion apps, such as the character he and replies, are created to Run the conversation in the spheres of romance, role of roles and intimacy. And in many cases, new users are hanging and emotionally based on technology, resulting in a string of lawsuits.
The farmer claims to have another approach: he is building A voice -based chatting tool he designed to be a “non-romantic” friend. Tolan, protected as a “best foreign friend”, has 500,000 app downloads and 90% of its user base are women Between the ages of 16 and 24 years. He’s voice friend, built on the top of a package of models he from Openai, Anthropic and others, engages in casual conversations, helps with homework and can be involved in emotional conversations about stress, arguments with parents and separation. To ensure that users are not attached, the app makes users make a break from the conversation at regular intervals (but will not stop if the user wants to continue to speak) and changes the types of interactions that users have with it to.
“What we have found is that many of the existing chatbots were really trying to suck you in their world and make you play with roles as an anime character or a Game of Thrones character,” Farmer said stale. “To form a healthy healthy attachment, you really want a character that is curious about your world. ”
Farmer, whose previous company Fintech was even purchased by Walmart for $ 300 million, is among a growing number of entrepreneurs building new applications with The existing models of him as they are increasingly comfortable. David Luan, formerly -ceo I Ai Agtic Startup Apdept and Agi Lab chief of Amazon who invested in the company, said beginnings like Tolan “Utilizing the second order effects of him.”
With about $ 10 million in seed financing, Tolan faces faces fair competition from much bigger players. But while Openai’s Chatgt, who just spent 400 million active user users last week, also has sound features allowing him to have long conversations with people, Luan says users come to chatgt to solve factual problems, While “the affinity of people with tolan is A reliable belief that helps you navigate the world. “
Weekly demo
Edtech CompaniY Chegg is suing Google, claiming that the search giant Summary generated by it ARE damaging the company’s traffic and incomeReported CNBC. Google’s research compilations created content containing details from the Chegg website without attributes and competed with its own electronic teaching offers. Chegg, used by students for helping homework (and criticized for facilitating fraud), reported $ 6.1 million in its Q4 2024 income. her income, too. Other pages like Kayak and Tripadvisor are also concerned about Google by leaving traffic on their pages, stale reported
Model behavior
TV at the headquarters of the Housing and Urban Development Sthrew a video created by him by Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feetdisplaying the words “Long live the real king” Wire reported. Deepfake’s video was played after the technology billionaire has gained a position of unprecedented power under Trump’s second presidency.