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Xnews:
*OpenAI in talks to raise $10B+ from Amazon
*plans to use AWS' Trainium chips
*also discussing commerce partnership opportunities
376 likes15 repliesPosted Dec 17, 2025
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DiscussingFilmDisney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI.
They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars.
(Source: t.co
Attorney General Pamela BondiAt my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
More details soon.
Ashok KumarFor those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today.
China released multiple AI models that are 50x more efficient than the best American AI models and made them open source, ruining the AI market
Elon MuskUniversal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.
AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
Sam AltmanI am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute:
I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of.
I felt a little useless and it was sad.
jacksfilmsHi! I'm one of the prompt writers that worked on this ad. It's a lot harder than people think! Prompts that my team used include:
-make it funny
-make it epic AND funny
-funnier!!!
Please be nice to my team as many of them will be laid off/replaced by AI
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