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In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites, and is designed specifically for […]

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In short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says […]

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Are your competitors producing more creative than you can match because they’ve figured out how to use AI to do it at scale? Are you still waiting weeks for a UGC creator to deliver one video, then repeating that cycle for every new ad variation you want to test? In this article, you’ll discover why […]

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The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at least as much into the interaction as you were. You might close the door in the face of the person who rang your bell, but at some level, you knew that another human was involved.

Spammers play a different scheme. One person can steal the time and attention of a million. It costs them nothing (actually, truly, nothing) to add one more name to the list. The lack of care and discernment comes through in their interactions. They steal attention in bulk and treat it casually. No one feels bad when they delete or filter spam.

In B2B selling and other high-value sales calls, the seller puts in a lot of effort. A custom presentation deck, useful spreadsheets, even a flight across the country to meet in person. That effort is expected, because the buyer sees their attention as valuable.

And now, here come AI agents. These are spammers disguised as door-to-door salespeople. They know your name, your history, your details–and they present a pitch that looks and feels as though a human spent a lot of time thinking about it and focusing on the buyer’s needs and desires.

But it’s done on a huge scale. It’s like seine fishing. A huge net is set to catch as many fish as possible, with no regard for the mass destruction it causes as a result.

Our instinct is to respect the work of a pitch that took more effort to create than it will cost us to consume (that’s why books are more respected than blog posts!). But AI agents, working at high speed to churn through the small amount of trust and attention we have left, upend that expectation.

Attention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off.

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In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card payments directly into supplier accounts. The company says the changes can shorten collection times by up […]

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Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the biggest transformation in its history at Canva Create on 16 April. Canva has acquired two companies simultaneously: Simtheory, an agentic AI collaboration platform, and Ortto, […]

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In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human safety operators by the end of 2026, and fully driverless service in 2027. Los Angeles is the […]

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Three of my friends got hacked this week.

You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email.

Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself to the whole address book. And while they’re at it, they could be scraping and misusing all sorts of data.

The first lesson is that you should only log in to your gmail or other email accounts directly, not if you’ve followed a link.

The second is that you really should get a password manager. Many are free or cheap. Some are easy to use.

Mostly, alas, we need to remind ourselves that just because it looks familiar (on the screen! on the internet! in a card!) we can stop paying attention. Especially if an AI said it, or it came to us unasked.

The internet lets ideas spread at scale. It also gives a few bad folks the leverage to cause a lot of havoc.

(And part of the problem lies with Google–they intentionally crowded out the peer-to-peer open net, but haven’t done enough to stop spam or scams.)

Look both ways before crossing.

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In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuilt from scratch over nine months, the model is natively multimodal, introduces a “Contemplating” reasoning mode that runs sub-agents in parallel, and is now […]

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