Elon Debuts Grok 3, ex-OpenAI Mira's AI Startup Thinking Machines, Ilya's SSI AI Startup to Raise $1B, HP to buy Humane for >$100M?!

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Headlines

• Elon Musk debuts Grok 3, an AI model that he says outperforms ChatGPT and DeepSeek (CNN)

• HP to Buy Humane, Maker of the Ai Pin, for $116 Million (NYT)

• Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B (TechCrunch)

• Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup (TechCrunch)

• Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI (TechCrunch)

• Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference (TechCrunch)

• Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI (TechCrunch)

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