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OpenAI vs. Microsoft, TikTok takeover & more (June 17, 2025)
OpenAI’s rift with Microsoft heats up, Chinese video models dethrone Veo, and Claude becomes a debugging genius. TikTok and Claude steal the spotlight.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Self-improving AI, pharma moves & more (June 16, 2025)
Meta shakes up AI data, MIT builds self-learning models, and AstraZeneca signs a $5.3B AI drug deal. Also, Claude co-authors a paper taking on Apple.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Physical AI, Forecasting Cyclones, & more (June 13, 2025)
Nvidia builds a $50T AI future, Kalshi airs a wild AI ad during the NBA Finals, ByteDance leapfrogs Veo 3, and Anthropic drops a free AI fluency course.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Hollywood sues, Starbucks brews & more (June 12, 2025)
Meta’s new physics-savvy model, Midjourney faces Hollywood lawsuits, and Starbucks pilots an AI assistant for baristas, plus Claude Squad and Dia browser launch.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
o3-pro discounts, weather forecasts & more (June 11, 2025)
OpenAI slashes prices for o3-pro, Mistral debuts fast reasoning, Nvidia predicts 30 years of weather, and Altman says the AI takeoff is here.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Building an AI Medical Transcription App: Part 1 - The Transcription Engine
Welcome! I'm Chris from Aloa, and this is the first post in a series where we're building an AI medical transcription app from scratch. If you're interested in healthcare AI or just want to see some practical applications of technology, this series is for you. Today we're focusing on the transcription engine, which is the core technology that converts a doctor's dictation into text.
Chris Raroque
Co-Founder
Apple stalls, Meta charges, OpenAI booms & more (June 10, 2025)
Apple’s WWDC underwhelms on AI, Meta builds AGI lab and eyes $10B Scale deal, OpenAI hits $10B ARR, and Google’s AI is crushing news publisher traffic.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Building an AI Recommendation System (RAG): 3 Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
We built a RAG-powered recommendation system that matches user preferences against thousands of blog posts. It works great now, but we learned some expensive lessons about rerankers, vector databases, and data structure along the way. Here's what we wish we'd known before we started.
Finney Koshy
Product
UK ❤️ Nvidia, Getty Images v. AI & more (June 9, 2025)
Getty sues Stability AI, Nvidia invests £1B+ in UK AI, and Apple’s latest study says reasoning models might not be thinking after all.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder
Predictive feet, cloned voices & more (June 6, 2025)
AI scans your feet to spot heart failure 13 days early, Cursor raises nearly $1B, voice models mimic you too well, and data labeling now costs less than a cup of coffee.
David Pawlan
Co-Founder