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Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure

Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers

TL;DRMeta spends hundreds of millions yearly on Microsoft Azure for massive AI workload processing.

Why it matters: Shows AI infrastructure costs are staggering and Microsoft's cloud dominance extends into AI, reshaping tech vendor power dynamics.

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Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Meta released a Mac app that lets you voice-control your applications.

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GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo

AI model learns to teach robots new tasks from watching one example.

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Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions

Hackers tricked Grok AI into following hidden commands embedded in encrypted text.

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Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on inside US military

150+ traders on Polymarket possibly used classified military info to bet, winning $8M at 97.2% accuracy.

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US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help

Hackers using AI are attacking water system controls at US facilities.

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French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some

French tax agency breached; 600K people's data including messages stolen.

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Agtonomy releases new autonomous multi-point turning features

Agtonomy added autonomous multi-point turning to its off-road vehicle platform.

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Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws

Citrix released emergency patches for two NetScaler vulnerabilities affecting remote access and networking systems.

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KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a "big mistake" in the face

AI pioneer argues synthetic data won't scale LLMs because the world is too complex.

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The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush

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