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Apple stalls, Meta charges, OpenAI booms & more (June 10, 2025)
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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

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Building an AI Recommendation System (RAG): 3 Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
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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

Finney Koshy

Product

UK ❤️ Nvidia, Getty Images v. AI & more (June 9, 2025)
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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

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Predictive feet, cloned voices & more (June 6, 2025)
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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

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AMC meets AI, Reddit goes to court & more (June 5, 2025)
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AMC meets AI, Reddit goes to court & more (June 5, 2025)

AMC embraces AI for video production, Reddit sues Anthropic, and ChatGPT adds meeting tools. Plus: Google’s AI Mode changes SEO forever. Big moves all around.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Sweden’s AI gamble, NotebookLM goes public & more (June 5, 2025)
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Sweden’s AI gamble, NotebookLM goes public & more (June 5, 2025)

Sweden rolls out AI agents nationwide, Bengio builds a lab for honest AI, Microsoft teaches agents in 1 hour, and NotebookLM finally goes public.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Big bets, bigger paychecks & more (June 3, 2025)
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Big bets, bigger paychecks & more (June 3, 2025)

xAI raises $300M at a $113B valuation, IBM acquires Seek AI for enterprise data, Meta automates ads, and AI-savvy workers see 56% wage boosts.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Apple slows down, AI speeds up & more (June 2, 2025)
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Apple slows down, AI speeds up & more (June 2, 2025)

AI learns to self-improve, voice agents level up, Samsung eyes AI partnerships and Apple delays its big AI debut...all in today’s newsletter.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Amazon wins NYT, AI voices whisper & more (May 30, 2025)
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Amazon wins NYT, AI voices whisper & more (May 30, 2025)

NYT signs with Amazon, DeepSeek stuns with a “minor” update, AI voice clones sound human, and an agent gets published at ACL. AI’s takeover is official.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Anthropic predicts job loss, recruits Reed Hastings & more (May 29, 2025)
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Anthropic predicts job loss, recruits Reed Hastings & more (May 29, 2025)

Anthropic warns of mass job loss, Reed Hastings joins its board, Grok hits Telegram, and Opera launches an AI-first browser. Retool agents save 100M+ hours.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder