| By @pigivinci [ 11 Min read ] In past episodes of The Lab series on The Web Scraping Club, we used Firecrawl to scrape the content of this newsletter, a vector DB like Pinecone to store the articles' markdown, and the OpenAI API to retrieve information and append the context to our prompt to get better answers... Read More |
| By @paulquickenden [ 4 Min read ] But fast-forward to this weekend and we finally broke through with multiple new all-time highs. Cue the headlines, ‘hopium’ and hallelujah memes. Still…the question lingers: why did it take so long? Here’s a look at the current terrain, what’s happening under the surface and what might be coming next... Read More |
| By @mbalabash [ 7 Min read ] Our imagination is the ability to remix what we already know and emphasize the elements that matter most for the time we live in, the context in which we act, or the problem we face. But turns out AI is pretty good at remixing stuff too... Read More |
| By @dankhomenko [ 5 Min read ] Deepfakes are very real, and this is not a “Black Mirror” episode. We can go as far as to recreate and duplicate people digitally, in a virtually untraceable manner. Ironically, what we need to fight deepfakes are other AI agents. There’s a lot to be said in conclusion... Read More |
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| The spacecraft Mariner 4 made a close flyby of Mars, becoming the first successful mission to the Red Planet and returning the first close-up photographs of the planet's surface. |
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| As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind push the frontiers of artificial intelligence, critics warn of a growing concentration of power. Startups and open-source labs are struggling to compete, raising concerns about innovation bottlenecks, transparency, and long-term safety. Meanwhile, regulators in the U.S. and EU are beginning to scrutinize how AI models are developed, distributed, and monetized. Should governments intervene — or is the market still open enough to self-regulate? Yes — the AI oligopoly is dangerous No — competition will sort it out Only if smaller labs are being actively blocked Not sure — too early to tell |
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