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Robostral: Mistral's Single-Camera Robot Hustle
Mistral AI pivots to robotics with single-camera navigation model Robostral Navigate. Bold tech, smart narrative play — but can a Paris software lab win physical AI?
Oracle Says CPUs Can Do AI Now. NVIDIA Sweats.
Oracle's X12 instances with Intel Xeon 6 claim GPU-free AI inference. It won't kill NVIDIA, but for cost-conscious AI deployment, the math actually works. Here's why CPU inference is the sleeper story of 2025.
Meta Got Caught Scraping Your Instagram Selfies for AI Training
Meta quietly built an AI tool that auto-scraped public Instagram photos for training data. Users freaked. Meta walked it back — sort of. Here's why your selfies are now machine food whether you like it or not.
The AI Doctor Will See You Now (And Possibly Kill You)
OpenAI is being sued for ChatGPT's allegedly dangerous health advice. The inevitable consequence of shipping a confident-sounding AI to 200M users and hoping they wouldn't take it seriously.
Perplexity AI: Google's $9B Nightmare
Perplexity AI raised $500M at a $9B valuation to do what Google won't: give you answers, not ads. But can a fancy AI wrapper actually kill search, or is it just the next hype cycle?
OpenAI Wants Your Teens: Safe AI or Just Hooked?
OpenAI's pushing teen AI access with a 'safety' pitch that's 40% genuine concern, 60% calculated market capture. Gen Alpha, meet your new subscription.
Fireworks AI: Specialized Models > AGI Fever Dreams
While OpenAI and Google chase AGI fantasies, Fireworks AI bets on specialized models and inference infrastructure — the boring play that might actually pay off.
Airbus Ghosts US Cloud for French AI Stack
Airbus is putting AI and defense workloads on French cloud provider Scaleway. Europe's digital sovereignty play just got its biggest validation yet — and the guy behind it used to hack phone lines.
Mistral's Robostral 8B: Pure Chaos, One Camera
Mistral just dropped Robostral Navigate, an 8B model giving robots spatial awareness using a cheap RGB camera. Say goodbye to expensive LiDar.
QWEN JUST BODY-SLAMMED LLAMA IN THE OPEN-SOURCE AI CAGE MATCH
Alibaba's Qwen just crossed one billion downloads, body-slamming Meta's Llama off the open-source AI throne. The crown has officially moved east.