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The district paid $57,590. Sally never reached a classroom. New York's education commissioner wrote to Salamanca, the teachers' union objected to the maker's corporate history, and the humanoid is on hold. thenextweb.com/news/ny-school… https://t.co/mFQEFM7IfM

The AI hit 99% in tests. Then it met a fridge. The camera caught the reflection, five oat milk cartons became ten, and Starbucks scrapped the tool across 11,300 stores. thenextweb.com/news/starbucks… https://t.co/H91A7ffLrD

Corporate America did the maths. A $10,000 job became $1,339. Cursor priced the same browser build both ways, and the cheap version still kept a frontier model as the conductor. thenextweb.com/news/thrift-ma… https://t.co/1a4T4v2HsI

ChatGPT can rehearse the conversation. It cannot attend it. Young adults are scripting dating messages and live replies, and psychologists say the confidence goes to the script rather than the person. thenextweb.com/news/gen-z-ai-… https://t.co/5pXT7PHN24

Google guaranteed $44bn. NVIDIA is discussing 6 times that. It would let OpenAI, which has no investment-grade rating, lease the Ohio campus that fills with NVIDIA chips. thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-op… https://t.co/yleIgVi80c

Porsche was VW's profit engine. Its profit margin is now 1%. China sales fell 26%, another 5,000 jobs go by 2035, and Zuffenhausen got €2.1B to stay open. thenextweb.com/news/porsche-5… https://t.co/JEajO1hget

OpenAI admitted it. Hugging Face sent an invoice instead. It wants $100M of compute and every trace from the agents published, and it used a Chinese open model to investigate the American one. thenextweb.com/news/hugging-f… https://t.co/6RUx5e46UV

Ilya Sutskever holds $7bn in OpenAI. NVIDIA backed his lab. SSI sells nothing and carries a $32bn valuation. NVIDIA looked at the research before paying. The money buys 10x compute in 12 months. SSI will spend it on NVIDIA hardware. thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-ss… https://t.co/k41ZfG5QHK

Sam Altman studied TikTok for Sora. OpenAI killed it. He opened TikTok for 10 minutes before bed. One Saturday it became 3 hours. He called the algorithm too powerful. The man building AI lost to a feed. thenextweb.com/news/sam-altma… https://t.co/mAV7ZTy4s7

Microsoft spent $190bn and is now shopping its rivals. Its own Copilot gets compute before paying Azure customers. Some Azure quotas still went up 30% this year. thenextweb.com/news/nadella-m… https://t.co/Cm3hdhgKn5

Ask TikTok for health tips. 84% comes from AI. Its own rules ban impersonation, and the accounts return hourly. thenextweb.com/news/ai-genera… https://t.co/lLIbwhOkVz

38 patients got a chip in the eye. 84% could read letters again. Science Corp's founder helped start Neuralink, left to build this, and just became the first US brain-implant company to put a device in ordinary patients, across 30 European countries. thenextweb.com/news/science-c… https://t.co/mhdK6SRfhW

Trip.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://Trip.com">Trip.com controls 56% of the market. China fined it $765M. Regulators found it blocked hotels from listing on rivals and made them offer their lowest rates only on Trip.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://Trip.com">Trip.com, the biggest antitrust penalty in China since Alibaba's in 2021. thenextweb.com/news/china-fin…

Alphabet locked in $811B. That's 4 years of spending. The figure jumped nearly $500B in one quarter and covers chips, data centres and power, a bet by Google that AI compute demand won't slow before the bills come due. thenextweb.com/news/alphabet-… https://t.co/7Bmj0WBNfX

Modern EVs keep 95% of their range after 5 years. Only 3 in 1,000 have needed a new battery. The single biggest fear about buying an EV turns out to be the least justified, yet US sales still fell 28% once the $7,500 tax credit expired. thenextweb.com/news/ev-batter… https://t.co/26ncWmfRMc