Welcome to the week as a review! We have tons of things for you this week: antitrust against Google and Meta prosecution; Grok remembers now; The CEO of Bolt, Ryan Breslow, wants to make his mark; And much more. Have a great weekend!
It’s over: Google violated antitrust laws on the advertising technology market, ruled a judge, ending a two -year battle after eight states filed complaints against the great technology giant. The remedies could include Google’s forcing to break its advertising business, such as the sale of Google Ad Manager. “We have gained half of this case and we will call on the other half,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, vice-president of Google regulatory affairs.
Surfing on surfing: OPENAI would be in talks to buy Windsurf, formerly Codeium, which makes a popular coding assistant. Before the news went, Openai approached Anysphere, who makes Cursor, another coding assistant. These talks indicate how much the capture of a tranche of the code generation market has become for the chatpt manufacturer.
A tweet started everything: Theseus, a defense technology company, tweeted that it had built a cheap drone during a hackathon with technology that had clear potential to fight against GPS crawling drones. The tweet became viral and the company quickly ended up in the COMPINATORTOR COHTE in 2024 with $ 4.3 million in seed funding. The American special forces have also concluded an agreement for early tests and development.
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Meta on the stand: The antitrust pursuit of the government against Meta started with blow this week. Among the testimony, a few things have stood out: Mark Zuckerberg once proposed the strategy of “wiping everyone’s graphics and having them starting again” to try to make Facebook relevant culturally. And when Meta noticed that Tiktok affecting his growth, he stopped reporting Facebook user numbers in his quarterly reports.
New trend in town: People use Chatgpt to determine the illustrated location in the photos. These image analysis capacities, associated with the ability of models to search for the web, constitute a powerful location research tool. Great, just what we wanted.
Grok catches up: Grok now has a “memory” function that allows the bot to remember the details of past conversations with a user, and it is available in beta on Grok.com and in the Grok iOS and Android applications in the United States, it should be noted that Chatgpt and Gemini already have this functionality.
Climate for victory: Large technological companies are in a race to see that can first eliminate carbon pollution. This week, Apple announced that it was halfway: since 2015, the company said it had reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by around 60%.
Return: After having withdrawn the bar in Bolt, CEO Ryan Breslow announced this week a solution of “crypto in one click and daily payment” in a single “super application” which he hopes to officially mark his return as a business leader.
Oh? Nvidia said this week that he had been informed by the US government that he would need a license to export his chips AI H20 to China. Earlier in the week, he pointed out that he would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to start producing some of these chips in the United States, but he was light on details.
Call me “Dev fashion” now: Figma sent a cease-up to an AI agent without adorable popular code so that he stops using the term “development mode” for new product feature. Figma also has a product called Dev Mode, which he failed last year. Isn’t there enough Dev mode to go around?
Where in the world? The undulating brought legal action against his rival, Deel alleging that Deel paid one of his employees to spy on a protruding. The undulating tried to serve the CEO of Deel Alex Bouaziz with papers but could not find it. Now, it’s even more complicated: Bouaziz and his lawyers are in Dubai, which has the reputation of being a safe refuge for those who wish to avoid extradition.
More AI with your AI: The concept published this week the concept of mail, a messaging client fueled by AI who connects with your Gmail to help organize emails, write answers, plan meetings and search for messages.
Lucid Gravity First Drive: “Lucid gravity can be too ingenious to its best,” writes Abigail Bassett, who has taken a look in the electric SUV. It is about to take market share in other internal luxury and combustion SUVs such as the RI1 Rivian, Cadillac Escalade IQ, BMW X7 and Audi Q8.
Before leaving …
Ah, nature: Need something relaxing to do this weekend? Discover the Great Moose Migration Livestream, which offers 24 hours of quiet scenes of forests and rivers. And if you are lucky, you could well maintain a passing moose. What could be better than that?
