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curated AI commentary, read hot off the wire and seasoned in the kitchen

Pantry Bytes · July · freshly ground

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First Google Cloud Summit in Africa, Johannesburg, Google Cloud Press CornerGoogle and Idris Elba fund AI for 100,000 African creators, BloombergSummitWebCraft AI medical scribe for South Africa, SummitWebCraftKirkland and Ellis 500 million proprietary AI build, Financial TimesMeta caps AI token spend after Claudeonomics leaderboard, The InformationFord rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI quality push falls short, BloombergLoop engineering, the shift from prompt to loop, The BatchStarlink direct-to-cell, phones connecting to satellites, T-MobileClaude Fable 5 restored after export controls lifted, Anthropic

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South Africa withdraws its AI policy over hallucinated citations, ITWeb Anthropic pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5, CNBC SpaceX's record IPO makes Musk the first trillionaire, Al Jazeera Microsoft's Majorana 2 quantum chip, Business Standard Africa's AI plans still depend on Big Tech, Rest of World

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AI in southern African newsrooms, The Conversation Apple's WWDC, iOS 27 and the Gemini-powered Siri, MacRumors SoftBank's 75bn euro French data centre plan, SoftBank China's underwater data centre off Shanghai, Tom's Hardware Brands moving AI ad production in-house, Reuters via Business Standard AI search and publisher traffic, Search Engine Land