🚨 Governor of California, Gavin Newsom issues an executive order to strengthen California’s procurement processes and raise the bar for Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies seeking to do business with the state.
🚨New: Apple Pivots Its AI Strategy to App Store, Search-Like Platform Approach
Apple’s revamped AI and Siri strategy shows the company is recommitting to its core business model: selling hardware and services. Also: Apple finally discontinues the Mac Pro in favor of the Mac Studio and gives iPhone designers bonuses to combat poaching from OpenAI.
🚨AI Rush: Huawei Targets Nvidia's Turf With New AI Chip
Alibaba Group Holding Limited and other Chinese tech firms are accelerating a shift toward domestic AI chips as U.S. restrictions on Nvidia Corp. reshape the competitive landscape and boost Huawei's position.
Huawei’s Ascend 950PR AI chip is gaining traction with Chinese tech firms by offering better CUDA‑like compatibility via its CANN Next software stack, positioning it as a viable domestic alternative to NVIDIA’s ecosystem
🚨 China Reviews Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal, Founders Barred From Leaving Country
The intensifying rivalry to dominate AI technology between the U.S and China is now creating uncertainty for major tech deals.
Late last year, Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup with roots in China. But now, Chinese authorities have been reviewing the deal and barred the company's founders from leaving the country.
🚨 OpenAI scraps Sora Video platform months after launch
OpenAI is planning to pull the plug on its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view.
The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.
~ Wall Street Journal
🚨 Apple Inc. Is testing a standalone app for its Siri voice assistant alongside a new “Ask Siri” feature that will work across the company's software, part of a broader AI overhaul.
🚨Anthropic’s Claude can now control your computer.
Anthropic announced on Monday that you can now let Claude take control of your computer to perform tasks like sending of files.
Claude will automatically look for the right tools to complete the tasks via connectors with Apps like Google Calendar or Slack.
🚨 Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI Agent to help him be CEO.
As reported, Mark Zuckerberg is looking to have everyone inside and outside his company eventually have their own personal AI agent.
🚨 Jeff Bezos in talks to raise $100 billion for AI manufacturing fund.
“Project Prometheus” as it is called is set out to raise new funds that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation.
~ WSJ
🚨 OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano on APIs
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.4 mini for faster, cost-efficient coding co-pilots, automation, and agent systems, now available in API, Codex, and ChatGPT.
GPT-5.4 nano is now available via the API as well.
~https://t.co/ml2ZuxmIHx
🚨Breaking!
DeepSeek may be discreetly testing its next-generation system ahead of an official launch.
A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week sparked the speculation.
The free model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced on the AI gateway platform OpenRouter on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described by the platform as a "stealth model."
~ Reuters
Elon Musk:
In 5-6 years, the phone becomes an AI edge node — basically a screen and audio
"no apps, no operating systems"
a cloud AI talks to your on-device AI, generating real-time video
you'll get everything through AI that anticipates what you want
An AI singer just signed a $3 million record deal 😳🎶
Meet Xania Monet, she’s not human, but her song’s climbing Billboard charts.
The AI music era isn’t coming… it’s already on the radio. 📻🤖
#AITwitter#AIMusic#AIArtist#Billboard#MusicTech#FutureOfMusic #ArtificialIntelligence
📻 Our AI future is so here.
An AI-generated singer named Xania Monet, created by human artist Telisha Jones using Suno, just signed a $3M record deal, with her songs already climbing Billboard charts.
Marks the first known instance of an AI-based act to earn a spot on a Billboard radio chart.
The single, “How Was I Supposed to Know?”, moved onto radio after strong social traction turned into real plays across U.S. adult R&B stations.
The bigger shift is that AI-origin music is crossing from internet virality into legacy channels like terrestrial radio, which forces chart systems and labels to treat it as regular commercial product.
For artists and labels, this blurs the boundary between human-only acts and AI-human hybrids, since success metrics like spins, sales, and streams apply the same way.
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billboard. com/music/chart-beat/ai-artist-xania-monet-number-1-adult-rb-airplay-chart-1236102665/
If “𝕏 Chat” connects to everything else he’s building, payments, video, AI — this might actually be huge.
Or a privacy nightmare. Thoughts?
#TechTwitter#ElonMusk#XChat
It was just a matter of time until AI-based act to earn a spot on a Billboard radio chart
"What’s the difference between that song and the other 103 titles that have made the chart this year alone? Xania Monet is an AI-driven artist, the product of a poet named Telisha Jones, and her song’s chart arrival marks the first known instance of an AI-based act to earn a spot on a Billboard radio chart."