Meta has reportedly invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI for a 49% stake, valuing the data-labeling firm at $29 billion. As part of the deal, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is stepping down to join Meta, where he will lead a new superintelligence team, while retaining a seat on Scale’s board.

Jason Droege, the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, will serve as interim CEO. Meta confirmed the strategic partnership, which will focus on enhancing AI training data efforts. Although the stake is significant, Scale will remain an independent company.

The move underscores Meta’s urgency to catch up in the AI race.

Source: Reuters
Image: CNBC

AI Startup ‘BuilderAI’ has collapsed after it was found to be powered by 700 engineers in India, not AI but AI (Alternative Intelligence)

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Imagine FBI or MI5 don dey into the business of building churches and mosque for America and UK instead of intelligence gathering centres . Nigeria na very anyhow country. Nothing Una fit tell me.

New features in iOS 19

Apple Intelligence will now calculate how much time is left until the battery is fully charged.

Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone, is officially teaming up with OpenAI. The company plans to acquire Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom, in a deal valued at around $6.5 billion. Ive will take on a broad role at OpenAI, helping shape the look and feel of future AI devices and tools.⁠
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He’s working closely with CEO Sam Altman to develop a new kind of consumer hardware centered on artificial intelligence. While specifics are still under wraps, the goal is to create products that feel as natural and intuitive as the iPod or iPhone once did, now powered by advanced AI.⁠
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The partnership has been in the works for months and marks one of OpenAI’s biggest steps toward building physical products. With Ive’s design vision and Altman’s AI focus, this collaboration could help define the next era of tech.⁠
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(via The Wall Street Journal)

Human and Gorilla Skeleton side by side.
The human shares a lot of similarities with the Gorillla and here are few of them:

1. They share the same physical traits like opposable thumbs.

2. Both share about 70 percent similar skeletal structures.

3. They share facial features. Gorillas can smile, feel extremely sad, happy, make pity face.

4. They share almost the same gestation periods. Gorillas just like humans carry their babies in the womb for 9 months.

5. They share similarities behaviorally, you see a mother Gorilla flogging, hitting her own baby for collecting food from another strange or neighbor Gorilla.

6. Both Human and Gorilla have emotional intelligence.

7. Gorillas are great just like humans in cooperative parenting. The male hustling and providing for the wife and children while the mother look after the children and both parents raising their children without each other responsibility conflicting.

Google Pixel has been named the best smartphone by independent tech experts for two years in a row. It boasts the most advanced processor, and its AI powered by Google’s vast Gemini dataset is simply unmatched. The camera quality is in a league of its own.

I’m already deep into the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, MacBook, AirPods, and Apple Watch, but now I’m building a Google ecosystem starting with the Pixel 8 and Watch 3. From my experience so far, Google offers better features. Even the battery life and camera, once areas where iPhones led, are now superior on Pixel devices.

I think since Steve Jobs passed away, Apple seems to be losing the innovation race. New iPhones feel more like price upgrades than functional ones. Many people buy them just to appear trendy or wealthy, especially to those who don’t know how competitively priced Pixels and Samsungs are. Meanwhile, the designs remain stale, and the recently announced Apple Intelligence is, frankly, a disappointment.