Today's AI Story Has A Useful Angle

Mike's take

'It hallucinated' is a fancy way of saying 'check the work.' Trust it like a confident stranger, not a calculator.

Top AI stories worth your time

• Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation — TechCrunch AI
  The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
• New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium — The Verge AI
  New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could rest
• The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI — TechCrunch AI
  Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to intervie
• Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe — TechCrunch AI
  Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
• Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US — TechCrunch AI
  Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Jargon, decoded: Parameter

A numerical value a model learns during training; large models have billions.

In plain English: The little dials the AI tuned while learning. More of them isn't always better.

Myth: If the AI said it, it must be true.

It's a fluent guesser, not a fact-checker. Treat names, numbers, and quotes as 'verify before you trust.'

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