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Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/how-ai-startups-are-fueli…

How AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

A pitch deck from Palantir CTO and another Palantir exec has been circulated for Founders Films, a "patriotic" content production company aiming to raise money (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025

‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk.

¿Os imaginšis que se vendiera un coche que no frenara correctamente el 95% de las veces que se pulsara el pedal de frenado?
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

An MIT report says 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, mainly due to a "learning gap" for both the tools and the companies (Sheryl Estrada/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-perc…

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

Automated Energy-Aware Time-Series Model Deployment on Embedded FPGAs for Resilient Combined Sewer Overflow Management
Tianheng Ling, Vipin Singh, Chao Qian, Felix Biessmann, Gregor Schiele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13905

Automated Energy-Aware Time-Series Model Deployment on Embedded FPGAs for Resilient Combined Sewer Overflow Management
Extreme weather events, intensified by climate change, increasingly challenge aging combined sewer systems, raising the risk of untreated wastewater overflow. Accurate forecasting of sewer overflow basin filling levels can provide actionable insights for early intervention, helping mitigating uncontrolled discharge. In recent years, AI-based forecasting methods have offered scalable alternatives to traditional physics-based models, but their reliance on cloud computing limits their reliability …

Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (Aileen Chuang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/ban…

Alibaba to spin off Banma self-driving business via Hong Kong IPO
Alibaba’s stake in Banma will drop to 30 per cent from the current 44.72 per cent after the IPO, the tech behemoth says.

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha alleges Meta misled advertisers by inflating Shops ads' performance and bypassed Apple's ATT (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/whistleblower-alleges-m…

Whistleblower Alleges Meta Artificially Boosted Shops Ads Performance
Ex-Meta employee alleges the company inflated ad results to mask poor performance

In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/technology/personaltech/meta-smar…

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.