Welcome to Week 47 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team!

AI News 📰

• Reporting from the WSJ suggest a distancing in the partnership between Microsoft & OpenAI. Similarly, a leaked internal conversation from OpenAI seems to suggest seeing Microsoft as the company’s biggest threat, though specific names were redacted - source

  • “Looking ahead to 2025, [REDACTED] poses the biggest threat due to their ability to embed equivalent functionality across their products (e.g. [REDACTED] without facing the business model cannibalization risks that Google does.” - source

• Meta finalized a $15 billion investment to acquire a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI, valuing the startup at approximately $29 billion. As part of the deal, Scale’s founder Alexandr Wang will join Meta’s new AGI lab to lead its “superintelligence” efforts, signaling Meta’s aggressive push to catch up in the AI arms race. – source

  • Following news of Meta’s investment in Scale, Google—previously one of Scale’s largest clients—plans to end its collaboration and seek alternative data-labeling providers, signaling the shifting landscape in AI partnerships. – source
    

• Following the launch of OpenAI’s o3 Pro, Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient model to date. – source
  

• Google’s Veo 3 has been blowing up the web with hyperrealistic video generation. The text-to-video generation tool set to power YouTube Shorts this summer—bringing generative video and audio creation directly to creators. – source

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• Dappier was mentioned in an article from TVNewsCheck about the future of AI for broadcasters . Check it out!

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

• A one-legged robot named Salto from researchers at UC Berkeley can leap and land precisely on narrow targets, with 25 successes in 30 trials. Potential applications include navigating low-gravity environments like Saturn’s moon Enceladus and assisting in disaster rescue operations. - source

• Google has offered voluntary buyouts to staff across its search, ads, and AI research teams as it prepares for upcoming antitrust rulings—while doubling down on AI investments. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• The Trump family launched its own phone line, Trump Mobile. The website advertises the phones as “MADE IN THE USA” but Eric Trump was quoted as saying “eventually all the phones can be built in the United States of America.” - source

• An 80-year-old man drove a Mercedes-Benz down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome early on Tuesday before getting stuck part way down. - source

Community Comments 🌎

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Last week, we featured a VentureBeat interview featuring our CTO Krish Arvapally, for a story on The Battle to AI-Enable the Web & Microsoft’s new NLWeb standard. This week we’re sharing our mention in an article in TVNewsCheck, shouting-out Dappier as a new revenue driver for traditional platforms looking to adopt AI.

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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