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February 16, 2025

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Oracle CEO wants your DNA in a giant Oracle AI database.

Also, OpenAI’s $14M Super Bowl ad.

Plus, Perplexity joins Google and OpenAI by launching its own Deep Research model.

Oh yeah, and Elon offered to by OpenAI for $97.4B.

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Oracle's CEO just made a shocking announcement

He wants all American data in one place.

✅ Economic data

✅ Medical records

✅ DNA information

✅ Infrastructure details

What's his plan?

To create a single Oracle platform that contains all government and US citizen data.

The Details 

1️⃣ $50-100 billion data center

2️⃣ All citizen data combined

3️⃣ 2.2GW computing power

4️⃣ AI-powered analysis

Think about it like this.

Every piece of information about you:

❌ Your personal records

❌ Your medical history

❌ Your location data

❌ Your genetic code

All in one massive database.

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Just last year Oracle's CEO, the world's fourth-richest person, said...

AI will enable real-time surveillance to keep people "on their best behavior."

Last month at The White House he discussed how AI could create custom vaccines that can cure any disease.

The promise? Better healthcare and government services.

The price? Your privacy.

The real question isn't whether AI can handle this data.

It's whether we want it to.

Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system

From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check

www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data

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Musk offers $97.4B all-cash deal to buy OpenAI through investor consortium. The bid includes full access to OpenAI's books and staff, but Musk says he'll withdraw if the company stays nonprofit, suggesting the offer aims to complicate OpenAI's privatization plans.

Perplexity unleashes Deep Research to compete with OpenAI and Google. The new Deep Research models perform hundreds of autonomous searches and reasoning steps in minutes, marking a shift from simple citation tools to true research assistants that can tackle complex academic and business problems.

OpenAI debuts $14M Super Bowl ad celebrating AI's impact on humanity. The company used Sora for initial concepts but chose human artists for the final animation after learning from Google's AI-generated Olympics ad controversy, showcasing AI as a tool that enhances rather than replaces human creativity.

British chip manufacturer, Arm, is targeting to launch its own AI chip by Summer 2025. Arm currently licenses its chip design to NVIDIA, and creating its own chips could challenge NVIDIA’s chokehold on the AI chip industry.

🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

A new research paper introduces latent space reasoning, allowing AI models to think internally before outputting any tokens.

Unlike Chain of Thought models, this latent reasoning technique allows deeper problem-solving without relying on large context windows.

Learn how this advancement mimics human cognition, optimizing test-time computation and potentially addressing AI’s limitations in planning and logic.

Perfect for those curious about the future of AI reasoning and decision-making.

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