Meta Fired 8,000 People to Go 'All In' on AI. Now Zuckerberg Is Like... 'So About That'

Meta Fired 8,000 People to Go 'All In' on AI. Now Zuckerberg Is Like... 'So About That'

Imagine quitting your job to become a professional poker player, telling everyone at Thanksgiving how it’s going to change your life, and then two months later muttering “yeah so…...

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Tesla Just Put Its Engineers on an AI Allowance — And the Fine Print Is Delicious

Tesla Just Put Its Engineers on an AI Allowance — And the Fine Print Is Delicious

Imagine your company hands you a corporate card, tells you to go wild on a shiny new toy for six months, ranks you on a leaderboard for how much you spend — and then, the second the bill shows up,...

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Anthropic's 'Mid-Tier' Model Just Walked In and Ate Everyone's Lunch

Anthropic's 'Mid-Tier' Model Just Walked In and Ate Everyone's Lunch

Imagine hiring an intern, paying them a fraction of the VP’s salary, and then watching them quietly outperform the VP on half the job while the VP is still finding the coffee machine....

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The AI Industry Is Having a Garage Sale, and Nobody Told Anthropic

The AI Industry Is Having a Garage Sale, and Nobody Told Anthropic

Remember when your streaming services quietly turned into a $70-a-month problem, one “just $2.99 more” at a time? The AI industry just did the opposite. Google looked at its $7.99 Gemini...

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Elon Musk Just Became a Landlord — And His First Tenant Has Never Shipped a Single Product

Elon Musk Just Became a Landlord — And His First Tenant Has Never Shipped a Single Product

Picture this: your roommate has no job, no income, and has never once made rent on time. Now imagine that same roommate signs a four-year lease at $150 million a month. That’s not a...

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Big Tech Just Built a Search Engine for AI Agents — and OpenAI Wasn't Invited

Big Tech Just Built a Search Engine for AI Agents — and OpenAI Wasn't Invited

Remember the internet before Google? Billions of web pages existed, but finding them meant scrolling through hand-curated Yahoo directories like a medieval librarian. Then search engines happened, and...

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The Underdog AI That Just Beat Google and OpenAI — and Then Gave It Away for Free

The Underdog AI That Just Beat Google and OpenAI — and Then Gave It Away for Free

MiniMax M3 just matched GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks at 5-10% of the cost — and then open-sourced it. Here's the full story.

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Welcome to Apurva's Tech Blog

Welcome to Apurva's Tech Blog

Welcome to my space for technology and AI insights. Let's explore the future together.

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