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AMD gets $1B taxpayer GPU money

Editorial Team
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💻 US Gov Drops $1B on AMD GPUs (Your Tax Dollars at Work)

  • The Department of Energy just handed AMD a billion dollars for two supercomputers. They promise it'll cure cancer and solve fusion. We'll see.

  • The government is panic-buying compute like it's toilet paper in 2020. At least this time it's for science, not vibes. (source)

🏭 Foxconn: "We Make iPhones AND Supercomputers Now"

  • The iPhone factory is spending $1.37 billion on AI infrastructure because apparently assembling phones isn't exciting enough anymore.

  • Even the companies that build our tech are pivoting to AI. Soon your iPhone will be assembled by an AI that was trained on an iPhone factory's supercomputer. Meta. (source)

⚠️ SK Group Chairman: "We're Running Out of Everything"

  • South Korea's SK Group says AI demand is creating massive supply bottlenecks. Chips, cooling, power - all maxed out.

  • Turns out you can't just manifest infinite GPUs into existence. Who could have predicted this? (source)

🚀 Meta Yanks Exec from Metaverse, Throws Him at AI

  • Vishal Shah got reassigned from building Zuck's leg-less avatar world to managing AI products. Career upgrade or sideways move? Yes.

  • Meta's quietly admitting the metaverse was a $15 billion oopsie. AI is the new shiny object. (source)

❤️‍🩹 ChatGPT: Now a Suicide Hotline for 1 Million People Weekly

  • OpenAI revealed that over a million users talk to ChatGPT about suicide every week. They're updating it to handle this better.

  • We've accidentally turned a text predictor into humanity's therapist. This is fine. Everything is fine. (source)

📉 Chegg Fires 45% of Staff, Blames ChatGPT

  • The homework help company is laying off 388 people because students discovered AI can solve calculus for free.

  • First casualty of the AI education wars. Turns out charging $15/month for answers when ChatGPT exists is a tough business model. (source)

🗓️ Zoom CEO: "AI Will Give You Fridays Off" (LOL)

  • Eric Yuan thinks AI "digital twins" will do your job so well, we'll all work 3-day weeks within 5 years.

  • Tech CEO discovers optimism. More likely: AI does your job 7 days a week while you look for a new one. (source)

📈 Claude Gets a Bloomberg Terminal

  • Anthropic is hooking Claude up to live market data and Excel. Because what could go wrong with AI trading stocks?

  • AI is graduating from writing poems to managing portfolios. Your 401k is about to get interesting. (source)

🎨 Adobe: "Every Button is Now AI"

  • Photoshop and Express are getting AI assistants baked in. Soon you won't even need to know how to use Photoshop to use Photoshop.

  • Creative tools are becoming AI wrappers. RIP to everyone who spent years learning the pen tool. (source)

🩺 Startup Turns Cheap Scans into Expensive Ones with AI

  • RADiCAIT uses AI to fake PET scans from CT scans, making cancer detection cheaper. Medical imaging arbitrage.

  • AI is democratizing healthcare by making expensive tests unnecessary. Insurance companies hate this one trick. (source)

📌 Pinterest AI: "We Know Your Style Better Than You"

  • Pinterest is testing AI that auto-creates style boards and outfit collages from your pins. Digital fashion consultant vibes.

  • AI is moving from "here's what you might like" to "here's who you should be." Dystopian or helpful? Both. (source)

🦾 Startup Uses AI to Teach Robots (It's AI All the Way Down)

  • Mbodi built a system where multiple AI agents train robots together. Like a robot kindergarten run by ChatGPT.

  • We're using AI to train AI to train robots. The singularity is just turtles all the way down. (source)

🗺️ Military AI Plans Your Invasion in Minutes

  • Pytho AI shrinks military planning from days to minutes. What used to take 5 people now takes 1 laptop.

  • AI is speedrunning warfare logistics. Nothing could possibly go wrong here. (source)

🧭 This AI Navigates Without GPS (Trees Are the New Satellites)

  • Skyline Nav AI uses visual landmarks to navigate when GPS fails. It literally just looks around and figures it out.

  • Finally, a backup for when Russia jams your GPS or you're in a parking garage. Revolutionary. (source)

Until tomorrow (unless AI replaces us first),
Team Galaxy.ai

P.S. If ChatGPT becomes your therapist, maybe also see a human one. Just to be safe.