Tue. 07/01 – Superhuman Finds A Home
Jul 01, 2025•17 min
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Summary
This episode covers Meta officially launching Superintelligence Labs and hiring new AI talent. Cloudflare debuts Pay Per Crawl, a system allowing websites to charge AI bots for scraping content, addressing publisher concerns in the AI era. Apple is reportedly evaluating third-party AI models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to potentially power Siri, signaling challenges with its internal efforts. Amazon's robot workforce reaches 1 million, approaching the number of human workers, impacting warehouse operations and labor. X hires Nikita Bier as Head of Product, and Grammarly acquires the email startup Superhuman as part of its strategy to build an AI-powered productivity suite.Episode description
Meta Superintelligence Labs is official. Cloudflare’s tool to help websites fend off AI bots is official. Will Apple throw in the towel and just buy some AI off the shelf? Does Amazon now have more robots than human workers in its warehouses? And my hands-down can’t live without you app finds a home.
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Links:
- Zuckerberg Debuts Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Group, More Hires (Bloomberg)
- Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping (TechCrunch)
- Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal (Bloomberg)
- Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses (WSJ)
- Musk’s X Hires Entrepreneur Nikita Bier as Head of Product (Bloomberg)
- Grammarly to acquire email startup Superhuman in AI platform push (Reuters)
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