🎭 OpenAI co-founder plotted Altman removal for year 🎭
Court documents expose internal scheming and Anthropic merger talks

Ilya Sutskever's court deposition reveals he conspired with Mira Murati for over a year to remove Sam Altman from OpenAI. The former chief scientist crafted a 52-page memo detailing Altman's alleged dishonesty and manipulation patterns, while also writing a separate document targeting Greg Brockman. The testimony emerged from Elon Musk's lawsuit and disclosed that Anthropic expressed interest in a merger during the November 2023 crisis, with Dario Amodei proposed to lead the combined entity.

🤖 Apple's Siri gets Gemini power 🤖
New version runs custom model on Apple's Private Cloud Compute

Apple is developing a revamped Siri powered by a custom Google Gemini-based model expected to launch in March 2025. The integration will run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers, marking a significant partnership between the tech rivals. Meanwhile, Apple faces regulatory hurdles delaying Apple Intelligence launch in China, creating uncertainty for the company's AI expansion in the region.

💰 Nvidia eyes $1B Poolside bet 💰
Chip giant eyes AI coding startup in massive funding round

Nvidia is reportedly planning to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside as part of a funding round that would value the AI coding startup at $12 billion. The investment would strengthen Nvidia's position in the AI development ecosystem and support Poolside's mission to automate software engineering tasks.

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🔬 Alibaba open-sources research agent 🔬

Alibaba released Tongyi DeepResearch, a fully open-source Web Agent designed for long-horizon, deep information-seeking tasks. The system achieves performance comparable to OpenAI's DeepResearch across comprehensive benchmarks, offering a complete methodology for creating advanced AI research agents.

🧠 Microsoft rejects AI consciousness 🧠

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman stated that AI models are "not conscious" and that research into artificial consciousness is not "work that people should be doing." His comments come amid ongoing debates about AI sentience and represent a clear stance from one of the industry's leading AI executives on this controversial topic.