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What we’ll cover today:

🔴 Google’s AI Summaries Are Killing Publisher Traffic

💰 Mira Murati’s $12B AI Lab Play (No Product Yet)

🎙️ Mistral’s New Open Audio Model Could Break Whisper

👀 What happens inside OpenAI

🔥 5 Ways to Make Money with AI (Even If You’re Lazy)

🚀 Thinking Machines Lab raises $2B at $12B valuation

• Mira Murati (ex-OpenAI CTO) just raised one of the largest seed rounds ever.

• Backers include a16z, Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, AMD, Jane Street. Serious money.

• No product yet. Just a promise of open-source AI tools for researchers and startups.

• Meta tried to acquire them to boost its AGI race. Talks didn’t go through. [Read Full Story]

• Ex-OpenAI talent is flocking there. Murati is clearly building her Anthropic.

• Biggest lesson: The AI lab wars are less about product, more about control over compute and talent.

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📉 Google’s AI summaries are eating publisher traffic

• Google Discover now shows AI-generated summaries, not headlines.

• Logos from multiple outlets, AI does the explaining. Users stay put.

• Zero-click searches hit 69%. Discover was one of the last traffic sources left.

• Google claims it helps users “decide what to read.” Reality? Fewer visits for publishers. [Read Full Story]

• Offerwall and micropayments won’t fix this. Traffic is already gone.

• Google is turning itself into the homepage of the entire internet.

🎙️ Mistral launches Voxtral, open-source speech AI

• Mistral just released Voxtral, an open-source speech model.

• Real-time transcription, Q&A over audio, live API triggers.

• Two versions: enterprise-scale (24B params) and edge devices (3B params).

• Cheaper and faster than OpenAI Whisper. Multilingual support baked in. [Read Full Story]

• API starts at $0.001/min. Free to test on Hugging Face.

• Mistral’s bet: Speech AI shouldn’t be locked behind paywalls.

👀 Ex-OpenAI engineer spills on the chaos inside

• Calvin French-Owen says OpenAI ballooned from 1K to 3K people fast.

• Slack is the operating system. Teams duplicate work. Codebase is messy.

• Codex shipped in 7 weeks with brutal sprints, barely any sleep.

• OpenAI watches X like a hawk. If something goes viral, they know. [Read Full Story]

• Inside, more focus on preventing abuse than AGI apocalypse headlines.

• Still runs like an overgrown startup. Still figuring itself out.

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