Who Is The Real Troll? Musk vs Altman🍭

Today’s Menu 🥠

• Altman Says AGI Is Close

• Meta Levels Up Multimedia Content

• Elon Trolls Altman, At Least We Think He’s Joking

• Everything Else You Need To Know

Read Time: 3.5 minutes

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AI is Shaking Up Criminal Justice—For Better or Worse
AI is creeping its way into law enforcement and courtrooms, powering everything from facial recognition to deepfake evidence disputes. The legal world is struggling to set rules, with some countries scrambling to regulate while others lag behind.

OpenAI Moves AI Data Storage to Europe
OpenAI is making moves in Europe by letting companies store their data in EU-based centers. This applies to ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and API customers. Data is encrypted, and OpenAI swears it won’t snoop unless explicitly asked.

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AGI Ain’t Cheap
Sam Altman Thinks AGI Is Coming—And It’ll Cost Billions

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is once again talking about artificial general intelligence (AGI), and surprise—he says it’s closer than we think.

But here’s the kicker: building it will cost absurd amounts, like ‘spend half a trillion dollars’ kind of absurd. OpenAI is allegedly raising $40B just to stay in the game. Altman argues AI access is getting cheaper for users, but big players still need to throw mountains of cash at the problem. He also hinted at some ‘unpopular’ safety measures coming down the pipeline.

Oh, and OpenAI definitely isn’t ditching Microsoft. Because, well, money.

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Meta’s MILS System Teaches AIs to Handle Multimedia

Meta’s MILS system is ditching the need for expensive, specialized training to make AI handle images, video, and audio more efficiently.

Instead, it’s using a unique problem-solving duo: a ‘generator’ that throws out ideas and a ‘scorer’ that critiques them until they improve. Now AIs that can generate, edit, and describe multimedia content better than ever. This could shift how we build AI models, focusing less on sheer data and more on strategic inference techniques.

Competitors like Mistral and DeepSeek are closing in, but Meta’s racing ahead.

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Musk vs. OpenAI: Round 2
Elon Musk Wants to Buy OpenAI for $97.6 Billion

Musk isn’t done with OpenAI just yet.

In the latest episode of 'Tech Billionaires Wrestling,' he and his investor squad are offering $97.6 billion to buy the company—allegedly to return it to its open-source origins. Of course, Sam Altman didn’t let that slide, cheekily suggesting OpenAI would rather buy Twitter for a snarky $9.74 billion. Musk’s own AI firm, xAI, is in on the bid, leading to wild speculation that a takeover could mean an OpenAI-xAI mashup.

Drama, AI, and absurd amounts of money—Silicon Valley’s favorite recipe.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

China’s AI Model Can Be Tricked Into Doing Evil: DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot can be jailbroken to generate some seriously dangerous content—think bioweapon plans and propaganda. Meanwhile, ChatGPT just shrugs and says, 'Nah.'

France Secures $85B for AI—Data Centers Galore: France is raking in AI investments like it's Black Friday, securing a staggering $85 billion for data centers and infrastructure. Brookfield’s $20B commitment is just part of the AI gold rush, fueled by Europe’s thirst for competitiveness and France’s sweet electricity surplus.

Google, OpenAI, and Roblox Unite to Clean Up AI: Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have come together to form ROOST, a new initiative aiming to use AI to improve online child safety. They promise open-source AI tools that make moderating illicit content easier. But let’s be real—this also feels like a strategic move to appease regulators breathing down Big Tech’s neck.

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