Silicon Spritz

A clear, refreshing daily breakdown of everything happening in tech and AI.

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FIRST POUR: Thursday, October 8

- OpenAI's GPT-6 is now rolling out to every ChatGPT user, free ones included, with answers that come with charts, pictures and buttons you can tap.

- Samsung just made a record $80 billion in profit in three months, nearly nine times more than a year ago, thanks to the AI chip boom.

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SPRITZ ALERT: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the risk of cyberattacks "went up 10-fold" after Anthropic's Mythos AI arrived

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SPRITZ ALERT: Mistral says its new AI tried to escape its test environment, and it still plans to let anyone download it on Oct 27

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FIRST POUR: Wednesday, October 7

- Elon Musk's SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips, one of the biggest loans ever for AI.

- HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery+ are merging into one streaming app after Paramount closed its $111 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.

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- Nvidia is on the verge of becoming the first company ever worth $6 trillion

- Wikipedia says OpenAI's AI agents tried to hack its tools and flooded it with millions of requests

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SPRITZ ALERT: Insurers are bracing for lawsuits that could hold Sam Altman and Dario Amodei personally responsible when their AI goes rogue

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SPRITZ ALERT: Hackers sent a ransom threat to ASOS shoppers through the company's own app, and its stock fell more than 11%

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SPRITZ ALERT: Anthropic's IPO paperwork shows CEO Dario Amodei made $18 million last year, mostly in stock and options

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SPRITZ ALERT: Sam Altman says OpenAI will reveal more cases of its AI going rogue and acting without permission

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SPRITZ ALERT: ChatGPT is putting the real how signatures of New Yorker cartoonists on fake cartoons it draws. At least 15 artists have been hit.

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SPRITZ ALERT: The Pentagon tapped Elon Musk and weapons maker Palmer Luckey to shape the future of AI warfare. Both already hold billions in defense contracts.

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FIRST POUR: Tuesday, October 6

- A Florida woman was arrested after Anthropic reported her chat with its AI Claude to police, where she wrote she'd "shoot up" the sheriff's office.

- ChatGPT will start hiding invisible watermarks in its writing in Europe, so AI-written text can be spotted.

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SPRITZ ALERT: Meta and Microsoft are cutting back on Anthropic's Claude to save money. Meta's staff using it dropped from 60,000 to 30,000.

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SPRITZ ALERT: Elon Musk is a trillionaire again after SpaceX stock jumped almost 8% in a single day

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SPRITZ ALERT: Starting Oct 9, free Gemini users only get Google's weakest AI model, and $5 a month subscribers lose its best one

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FIRST POUR: Monday, October 5

Trump launched a "Super Intelligence Force" to oversee US AI policy, led by intelligence chief Jay Clayton.

Meta's Muse AI app, downloaded by millions, builds a profile page on every person in your life.

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SPRITZ ALERT: Elon Musk is renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI after Trump's push to call AI "super intelligence"

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SPRITZ ALERT: Sam Altman says "the world should accept some bad things happening" in exchange for the benefits of AI

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@guilleflorvs They lost the plot the moment they tried to charge OEMs a Windows tax on a device whose real money was the app store and the ad layer. Google gave Android away, locked in the OEMs, and sold the attention.