FTC targets AI-driven personalized pricing

Bloomberg's Big Take Asia reports the AI infrastructure boom has created billionaires from furniture makers to toilet manufacturers. The story profiles an unglamorous new breed of AI hardware suppliers, moving wealth creation beyond Silicon Valley.

A SunoAI community post argues v4.5 and v5 were more capable than users realized, now that both versions are no longer available. The author says running the "My Voice" feature on v5 — advertised for 5.5 and Custom Models — produced notably better results.

Ex-Ramp engineers' startup raised a $20M Series A led by CRV plus a $5M seed from General Catalyst, and claims over $1M in annualized revenue within two months of its July stealth exit. The team scrapped its original performance-marketing product and entire codebase to build an "agents lab for creative work."

OpenAI published 722 manuscripts across 372 families of results from an unreleased frontier model, many with Lean proofs, others unverified. Average compute per result was roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking.

Interview covers whether AI will kill us, whether we need to understand how AI works, and whether AI should be regulated like drugs. Hinton also addresses what one person can do about AI.

Apollo Global Management President Jim Zelter says compute and energy will remain bottlenecks as the AI investment boom accelerates. He also calls the scale of AI capex markets "unprecedented" and expects rates to stay "higher for a while."