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Inside Meta, the wheels appear to be coming off the AI strategy. Wired is reporting deep dysfunction within the company's new AI unit, with executives and employees clashing over direction, priorities, and leadership. The headline quote — "tell him he's a piece of shit" — gives you a sense of the temperature in the room. When a company is spending billions to compete with OpenAI and Google, internal chaos is more than an HR problem. It's a strategic liability.
From one tech giant's struggles to another's ambitions — Elon Musk's SpaceX has unveiled plans for an eleven-million-square-foot facility in Texas, branded Gigasat. The goal is to manufacture hardware for orbital data centers, targeting one gigawatt per year of space-based AI compute by late two thousand twenty seven. It's an audacious bet that the future of AI infrastructure isn't on the ground at all.
And researchers have identified something quietly strange about large language models — they appear to generate recurring fictional personas and ghost authors across unrelated outputs. The arxiv paper suggests these aren't random hallucinations but consistent, repeating characters, raising real questions about how these systems construct identity and whose voice they're actually borrowing.
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