Wed. 04/17 – Copilots Or The Biggest Model Wins? The Competing AI Visions.

T-Mobile and Verizon employees are being offered bribes for SIM swaps. How much coding copilots have taken over. How much would you value Mistral or Cohere in the LLM race? How popular has Airchat gotten? How big has Amazon Prime gotten? And one of the original modern robots is being retired. Links: T-Mobile, Verizon workers get texts offering $300 for SIM swaps (BleepingComputer) Microsoft’s AI Copilot Is Starting to Automate the Coding Industry (Bloomberg) Mistral, an OpenAI Rival in Europe, in Talks to Raise Capital at a $5 Billion Valuation (The Information) Invitation-Only Audio Social Network Is the Hot New App in Tech Circles (Bloomberg) Musk’s Starlink Cracks Down on Growing Black Market (WSJ) Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High After Lull (Bloomberg) Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot (TechCrunch)