Briefing startups on the most important news in AI this week

"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot" says ChatGPT Agent as it casually clicks through Cloudflare's ubiquitous “I am not a robot” test.

Zuck throws shade on Open-AI's raison d'etre (automating all valuable work) with his new penned vision for super-intelligence, which he says is in sight.

Stack Overflow's annual developer survey revealed the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code:  AI usage continues climbing (84%) yet trust in these tools has cratered and tech debt is the #1 cause.

DeepMind's new AlphaEarth AI model integrates petabytes of observation data to map and monitor the planet in 10x10m squares with unprecedented detail.

Something's got to power all of those data centers:  Helion broke ground on what would be the world's 1st commercial fusion reactor in Central Washington.

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