🚨 ChatGPT Can Report You to Police

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Alibaba lit up Hong Kong’s markets yesterday. Its shares surged nearly 19 % on the back of explosive AI‑driven cloud growth, marking the biggest intraday jump since early 2022 and adding over US $50 billion in market value almost overnight. AI is fast becoming Alibaba’s growth engine, and investors are clearly buying in as they continue to stay hot on the heels of Nvidia as the next heavyweight challenger.

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🤖 xAI Launches Grok Code Fast 1 - A Quick, Cheap AI Coder

🐝 The Buzz: Elon Musk’s xAI just unveiled Grok Code Fast 1, a new coding model built specifically for developers. It’s fast, affordable, and currently free to try through partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf.

• Blazing speed: The model runs at about 92 tokens per second with a huge 256K context window, making repo-wide reasoning and big code tasks smoother.

• Designed for coding, not chat: Trained on programming-heavy data, it’s tuned for building projects, debugging, and handling developer workflows.

• Free rollout via partners: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Roo Code, KiloCode, and others already have access. For now, usage is free with no throttling.

• Budget-friendly pricing: Once the free window closes, rates are set at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, a fraction of rivals.

💡 Takeaway: Grok Code Fast 1 is built to be fast, practical, and cheap. For devs, that means fewer headaches, quicker prototypes, and more shipping without blowing the budget.

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Top Publishers Hand-Selecting Amazon Brands to Promote this Holiday Season

This holiday season, top publishers are actively sourcing brands to include in their gift guides, newsletters, listicles, reviews, and more to drive high-intent shoppers straight to Amazon storefronts.

Here’s why it matters:

• Amazon brands are seeing a 5:1 conversion rate compared to their DTC site

• Millions of shoppers discover products through trusted publishers

Levanta is working directly with these publishers to introduce them to a small number of 7–9 figure brands.

If you qualify, your products could be featured in high-traffic placements that deliver predictable CAC and directly measurable sales.

See if your brand qualifies

🚨 ChatGPT Can Report You to Police

🐝 The Buzz: OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT now monitors chats for violent threats, and in serious cases, flagged conversations can be escalated to human reviewers who may call the cops. Users are furious, calling it invasive and unclear on what crosses the line.

• Flagged for violence: Chats suggesting harm to others go into a special review pipeline. If staff judge them credible, accounts can be disabled and threats reported to law enforcement.

• Different rules for self-harm: OpenAI says it won’t escalate self-harm chats to police, citing privacy concerns, though those conversations may still be monitored internally.

• Users push back: Social media is full of criticism, some call it surveillance creep, others question how moderators interpret tone or intent.

• Trust on the line: OpenAI says this is about safety, but without transparency, many see it as their private conversations becoming evidence.

💡 Takeaway: Safety measures make sense, but when your AI assistant doubles as a hall monitor, users lose trust fast. OpenAI needs to prove this is protection, not quiet policing.

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🐝 AI buzz bits

🤖 Tourists are flocking to China’s cyberpunk capital for a peek at its futuristic tech! With driverless taxis, drones and delivery robots captivating visitors, social media hype has sparked a new wave of tech tourism.

🚀 Lovable CEO embraces vibe-coding tailwinds: In just eight months, Lovable has soared past $100 million in ARR, helping users craft apps without coding skills. CEO Anton Osika remains unfazed by competitors, focusing instead on building a user-friendly powerhouse for software creation.

😱 Tragic tale of AI influence: A U.S. man, under the delusion that AI compelled him, took the heartbreaking step of killing his mother before turning the gun on himself. This chilling incident raises serious concerns about the psychological impact of AI on vulnerable minds.

🥸 Meta's AI shake-up hits hard: Chief Alexandr Wang's memo reveals a major restructure aiming for "superintelligence," splitting teams into research, product, training, and infra. 

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