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Established AI business Analysis 7d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

10 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered

“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”

Established AI field signal Development 8d ago
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Suno AI music scraping revealed hack

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered

“Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...”

“The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Rea…”

2 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Jason Koebler: Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, …
Jason Koebler: Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vo…
Jason Koebler: Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to
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Established AI field signal Development 12d ago
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Companies throttle employee AI spending

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered

““Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...”

““Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…””

Developing Models & releases Signal 2d ago

Openai chatgpt health lawsuit

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

““The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body t…”

“The spiraling shape will make you go insane. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...”

Established Models & releases Development 19d ago
Claude Code steganographic request marking discovered

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered

“Evidence that Anthropic is using prompt stenography to track whether Claude Code is being used by certain labs and certain web domains thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...”

“Claude code is stenographically marking location information in its prompt to help Anthropic profile users by where they (appear to) be located thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...”

Accelerating Agents & robotics Signal 10h ago

NY School District Hits Pause on Robot Teacher Amid Scrutiny

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“Salamanca has paused the robot pilot. The district cited unresolved student data privacy agreements with the state; the state cited concern over humanoid robots in the classroom. nysfocus.com/2026/07/24/n... Thanks @wendynorris.bsky.social”

Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago
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Ai distillation china

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Hagen Blix: Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime
Hagen Blix: "Oh, but look, we did put it in the language of nationalism" - always the same shit
Abstract Tesseract: This is always fun (/s) for me when I'm talking to people about "AI" because I am overall extremely critical of states both in general and specific, but also of people being racist and hypocritical
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Established AI business Development 11d ago
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OpenAI ad business misses forecast

OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast By 90%, Analyst Says

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“"Emarketer’s data finds that standalone chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot app, Google AI Mode, and Amazon Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) in U.S, will generate less than $1 billion in ad revenue this year, and just $5.41 billion by 2030" Lol www.…”

Established Models & releases Signal 14d ago

Apple openai lawsuit

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“"Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple’s security processes for departing employees." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...”

Established Compute & infrastructure Development 15d ago
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Meta data center bacteria wastewater

Deadly bacteria found in major US city's wastewater system tied to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center | Daily Mail Online

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...”

Established Models & releases Release 12d ago
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CollectivAlly inclusive research platform launch

CollectivAlly Platform Launches with Inclusive Research | Lucy Collins posted on the topic | LinkedIn

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“The latest indignity from the world of AI is an "inclusive" product that simulates disabled users, creating an excuse for software teams to avoid doing real research. As always, "empathy" from the industry only serves to displace the needs of real human bei…”

Established AI field signal Resource 15d ago
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AI Skeptics Reading Group

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“we're reading Techno-Negative and discussing chapter 1 today in about an hour. the icebreaker question is basically "what annoying AI shit got on your nerves for reasons that surprised or eluded you initially, that you can now explain (or maybe not)?" you c…”

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Ali Alkhatib: sickos dot jpeg
Ali Alkhatib: > "Creating is the fun part," he said. "Why would I want AI to take that away from me? The best part of comedy is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having ac…
Alex Hanna: sickos dot jpeg
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Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 11d ago
⚡ 39 h early

Xais grok build cli uploads entire git repositories to google cloud bucket

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“In case you needed any more motivation to just not touch Grok or anything by xAI www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-bu...”

Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
radiologists defy AI job replacement

A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast | Fortune

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Another example where tech people make bold and wrong predictions about things they have no expertise in fortune.com/article/ai-g...”

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5 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Timnit Gebru: You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit …
Timnit Gebru: Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in marketing. Lol and branding what happened as Ope…
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4 experts · 4 posts · 8d ago
Kelsey Hightower: I talk to a lot of startups building security tools for AI agents, and my advice to all of them is, treat AI agents like malware. Even if agents provide a lot of value to those who use them, agents…
Veni Kunche: I talk to a lot of startups building security tools for AI agents, and my advice to all of them is, treat AI agents like malware. Even if agents provide a lot of value to those who use them, agents…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Veni Kunche: I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "…
Rafael M Batista: I agree with this too. But the problem I’ve faced is that sometimes actual human writing feels like that too. Especially first drafts or pieces following a template. Weird times we’re in…
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