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  • 🌐 Cloudflare creates pay-per-crawl AI marketplace

  • 🤖 Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion to challenge OpenAI

  • 💼 OpenAI’s high-level enterprise consulting business

  • ⚖️ Senate rejects AI regulation ban

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a fiery Slack message to researchers Monday night, according to WIRED — dismissing Meta's recruiting tactics as "distasteful" while pitching why building AGI at OpenAI beats chasing paychecks.

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Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare just made a major change to automatically block AI crawlers by default on new websites, alongside the launch of a marketplace where publishers can charge bots micropayments for accessing content. Cloudflare will require AI companies to get explicit permission before scraping any of the 20% of websites it protects, reversing decades of open web policies.

xAI has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity through secured notes, term loans, and a strategic equity investment. The funding will give the startup more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its Grok AI chatbot. xAI has already installed 200,000 GPUs at its Colossus facility in Memphis, Tennessee.

OpenAI is building out a consulting arm that charges enterprises at least $10M to customize AI models, according to a new report from The Information — putting the AI leader in competition with industry giants like Palantir and Accenture.

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly voted to strike a controversial provision from a budget bill that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence for ten years. The "AI moratorium," introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, was backed by figures like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and a16z’s Marc Andreessen to prevent a "patchwork of regulation" they claimed could stifle innovation.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

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South Korean AI video creators are taking over social media.

🚚 Amazon launches a new AI foundation model to power its robotic fleet and deploys its 1 millionth robot.

🤖China Is Quickly Eroding America's Lead in the Global AI Race

🚀X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

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