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In today's Techpresso:
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💰 Alphabet plans record AI spending after strong earnings 🏈 Sam Altman clashes with Anthropic over Super Bowl ads 🤖 OpenAI unveils Frontier, a platform to build 'AI-coworkers' 📝 Meta's internal memo signals AI comeback after rocky year 👀 Alexa+ could integrate ChatGPT 📚 Spotify will now sell you books 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 5 trending tools 📚 + 5 trending papers & reports
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💰 Alphabet plans record AI spending after strong earnings
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- Alphabet announced it will spend between $175 billion and $185 billion on AI infrastructure this year, far exceeding the $119.5 billion analysts predicted and more than its combined spending over the past three years.
- CEO Sundar Pichai said the AI investments are necessary, stating the company is seeing AI investments and infrastructure drive revenue and growth across search, cloud, and other products.
- About 40% of technical infrastructure investments go toward data centers and networking equipment, while 60% go toward servers, as Alphabet races to compete against Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
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🏈 Sam Altman clashes with Anthropic over Super Bowl ads
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic got into a public fight after Anthropic released Super Bowl ads that mocked ChatGPT's upcoming ad-supported free tier by showing chatbots inserting awkward product promotions into personal conversations.
- Altman admitted the ads were funny but called Anthropic "dishonest" and "authoritarian," saying OpenAI would never insert ads into conversations, though the company has said it plans to show ads based on chat content.
- Altman claimed Anthropic only serves rich people, but both companies offer similar free and paid tiers, and both enforce content policies, making his accusations seem like an overreaction to a cheeky commercial.
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🤖 OpenAI unveils Frontier, a platform to build 'AI-coworkers'
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- OpenAI launched Frontier, an enterprise platform that lets companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can run other software like Salesforce and Workday.
- The platform connects databases, business tools, and internal applications, letting AI agents and human employees work together with the same data, tools, and security controls.
- Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber have signed up as initial customers, while investors worry Frontier could threaten traditional SaaS providers.
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📝 Meta's internal memo signals AI comeback after rocky year
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- An internal memo reveals that Meta has completed pretraining on its new AI model codenamed "Avocado," marking a potential recovery after the company's troubled 2025 with its Llama 4 release.
- Avocado beats the best freely available base models and competes with leading fully trained models in knowledge, visual perception, and multilingual performance, despite not yet going through post-training.
- The new model is ten times more efficient than Maverick and a hundred times more efficient than Behemoth, with Meta planning capital spending of $115 to $135 billion for 2026.
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👀 Alexa+ could integrate ChatGPT
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- Amazon is reportedly in talks to integrate ChatGPT into Alexa+, which could mean the voice assistant would be powered by both Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's technology after a potential $50 billion investment.
- The timing is notable because Amazon just opened Alexa+ to all US users after nearly a year of limited testing, and Apple is about to launch an upgraded Siri powered by Google's Gemini.
- The deal could include other elements beyond Alexa+, such as access to OpenAI's Codex, getting OpenAI to use Amazon's Trainium chips, or opening Amazon's store to OpenAI's agents.
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📚 Spotify will now sell you books
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- Spotify is expanding into physical book sales, letting users in the U.S. and UK buy print copies of audiobooks directly through the app in a move beyond its digital-only roots.
- A new feature called Page Match lets users scan a page from a physical book with their phone camera to jump to that exact spot in the audiobook version.
- Spotify has partnered with Bookshop.org for physical book sales, meaning purchases will support local, independent bookstores rather than competing directly with major retailers like Amazon.
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Nvidia won't release new gaming GPU for 'first year in three decades' due to RAM shortage
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Valve pushes back Steam Machine launch due to storage and memory shortage
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FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone
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GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub
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AI Won’t Kill the Software Business, Just Its Growth Story
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department
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Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout
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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
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Why OpenAI’s drug royalties proposal won’t work
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Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
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OpenClaw's OpenDoor problem is so bad that installing malware yourself might save time
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Amazon to begin testing AI tools for film and TV production next month
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🧰 Trending tools
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The new v0: Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.
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Higgsfield Vibe-Motion: Create motion images in a single prompt in an editing canvas
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Voxtral Transcribe 2 by Mistral: converts speech to text using open-source AI models with permissive licensing, enabling free and commercial deployment for developer applications.
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Webflow AI site builder: visual website builder with AI-powered personalization and composable CMS that lets marketing teams create custom sites without heavy developer involvement.
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Interactive California Budget: an interactive dashboard that visualizes California's budget data across multiple years with contextual information and graphs for line items.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Distance Marching for Generative Modeling: generative models create images by gradually moving random noise toward realistic outputs, measuring how far each step travels in data space.
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PDF Redaction Vulnerability Using Character Spacing: black boxes hide text in PDFs, but the spacing between letters underneath often reveals the original words through pattern matching.
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Gemini AI Speeds Up Scientific Work: researchers used Google's Gemini model to automate literature reviews, generate hypotheses, and analyze data across biology, chemistry, and physics projects.
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ArXiv partners with preservation services: the research repository now backs up papers with external organizations so scientists can still access them if arXiv itself goes offline.
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PeerRank: Autonomous LLM Evaluation Through Peer Review: language models evaluate each other's answers by searching the web for supporting evidence, reducing bias from self-grading or single judge systems.
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