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Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/ai-signing-bonuses/

$100M AI Signing Bonuses
Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?

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[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more (Roy/@im_roy_lee)
https://x.com/im_roy_lee/status/1938718987975827651

Roy (@im_roy_lee) on X
introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread):

Experts detail how the Trump administration has seriously weakened the public-private partnerships that protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/n…

‘Suspended animation’: US government upheaval has frayed partnerships with critical infrastructure
Recent federal cuts, reorganizations and other disruptions have alarmed industry leaders, who say the government is a less reliable partner even as cyber threats increase.

Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/n…

OpenAI is expanding its consulting-like service to refine its models and build bespoke apps for large enterprise and government clients spending at least $10M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-takes-page…

OpenAI Takes a Page From Palantir, Doubles Down on Consulting Services
As OpenAI pitches its artificial intelligence to big companies and government agencies, it’s taking a page from the playbook of many software firms by offeringin-house researchers and software engineers to customize AI for customers. OpenAI is adding staff and resources for a consulting-like ...

A look at "The List", a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-recruitin

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…

AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice (Nicole Froio/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellige…

AI is ruining houseplant communities online
AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20