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Exclusive: The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups Coding assistant startups are highly unprofitable, says a source familiar with Windsurf financials.

“The most straightforward path to improving margins in this business involves the startups building their own models, thereby eliminating costs of paying suppliers like Anthropic and OpenAI.”

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The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.

"The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta... Generative AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable."

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Nvidia's AI empire: A look at its top startup investments | TechCrunch Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

"Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments.

Nvidia has stated that the goal of its corporate investing is to expand the AI ecosystem by backing startups it considers to be “game changers and market makers.”

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Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs Engineering was once the most stable and lucrative job in tech. Then AI learned to code.

"Learning to code has long been seen as the ticket to a lucrative, secure career in tech. Now, the release of advanced coding models from firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google threatens to upend that notion entirely."

@wired.com

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Ethan Mollick: AI Urgency, Leadership Responsibility, and Why Companies Must Act Now Podcastepisode · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · 11.06.2025 · 39 min.

“Which companies will lead and which will be left behind as AI transforms the way we work? Nicolai Tangen connects with Ethan Mollick… to explore how organizations can harness AI's revolutionary potential.”

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From LLMs to hallucinations, here's a simple guide to common AI terms | TechCrunch We thought it would be helpful to put together a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases that we use in our articles.

“From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms”

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OpenAI peels back ChatGPT's safeguards around image creation | TechCrunch OpenAI updated ChatGPT's content moderation policies to allow AI images depicting public figures, hateful symbols, and racial features.

“OpenAI peels back ChatGPT’s safeguards around image creation”

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Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI The search giant should’ve been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn’t. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.

“Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI”

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AI Meetup Copenhagen #4 snapshots.

I’m heading up a quarterly, multidisciplinary AI Meetup for Innovators, Creators, and Techies in Copenhagen. Join us, it's free! ✌️

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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

"It's not about just one fake video or one fake article. There's a systematic effort to constantly create this flood of false stories, flood of propaganda stories, and continue spreading them"

Julia Smirnova, senior researcher, Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy, a non-profit thinktank.

German election: From AI influencers to Russian disinformation, the far-right is getting a leg up online Germany's far-right party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) has been more active on social media than other parties during the campaign and is in second place in opinion polls ahead of the country's e...

“Methods are said to include creating fake TV news stories or deep-fake videos of apparent "witnesses" or "whistle blowers" fabricating stories about prominent politicians.”

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The Inside Story of How Altman and Musk Went From Friends to Bitter Enemies The two tech titans are in the meanest fight in business. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

“But both have a strikingly similar taste for power.”

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Researchers point out that "humanity has a long history of “offloading” cognitive tasks to new technologies as they emerge and that people are always worried these technologies will destroy human intelligence."

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Welcome to AI Meetup Aarhus. This is a multidisciplinary group & meetup for innovators, creators, and techies who are passionate about learning and talking about Artificial Intelligence. The focus of the group is a meetup in Aarhus (IRL). Join us to network and share ideas with nice people with diverse skills. We will explore cutting-edge AI technologies and tools, as well as creative use cases and business ideas, so whether you're a seasoned expert or starting to dive deeper into the world of AI, this Meetup is the perfect place to learn, connect, and collaborate.

Join AI Meetup Aarhus in one month! ⚡

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Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips.

“Resource constraints often fuel creativity”

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Keynote and “AI-voice” demo by @evrat.bsky.social at The Summit 2025 conference in Copenhagen.

Evan is known for the “Shell Game” podcast and the famous “Gone” article for @wired.com

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Google’s Resolution for 2025: Catch Up to ChatGPT Tired of trailing OpenAI, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai wants his Gemini chatbot to be used by 500 million people.

"Tired of trailing OpenAI, CEO Sundar Pichai wants his Gemini chatbot to be used by 500 million people"

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Trump announces billions in private sector AI investment Stargate will open a data center project in Texas and later expand to other states.

"OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and the UAE's MGX will convene under a joint venture called Stargate, and will commit $100 billion to start with a potential of up to $500 billion over four years"

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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

"Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy" by @404media.co

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Microsoft to Spend $80 Billion on AI Data Centers This Year Microsoft said Friday it would spend $80 billion to built out AI-enabled data centers in the fiscal year that ends in June.

“Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build out AI-enabled data centers that train models and run AI applications globally, with more than half of the spending in the U.S.”

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Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024 | TechCrunch AI startups continue to dominate the venture capital funding landscape. Here are the all the megarounds so far in 2024.

“Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024”

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OpenAI's Sora is launching today — here's highlights from the first review | TechCrunch Sora, OpenAI's video generator, is launching today — at least for some users. YouTuber Marques Brownlee got early access.

“It’s impressive that it’s AI-generated video, but you can tell pretty quickly that it’s AI-generated video,” he said of the majority of Sora’s clips. “Things just get really wonky.”

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AI Meetup Copenhagen: Innovators, Creators & Techies | Meetup Welcome to AI Meetup Copenhagen. This is a multidisciplinary group & meetup for innovators, creators, and techies who are passionate about learning and talking about Artificial Intelligence.The focus ...

Welcome to AI Meetup Copenhagen. A multidisciplinary group & meetup for innovators, creators, and techies who are passionate about learning and talking about Artificial Intelligence from many perspectives.

Next meetup is 27/02/2025
@ the IT University of Copenhagen

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What do you love when you fall for AI? Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.

“Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing”

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The abject weirdness of AI ads | TechCrunch "I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice." That's Browser Company CEO, Josh Miller, in his

“Art and companionship both feel very central to the human experience, and the fact that AI is being used for both of those things today is a reality some find uncomfortable to acknowledge.”

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