Rowan Cheung

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Founder at The Rundown AI

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Google's ad empire under fire

1 week ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Google just lost a major antitrust case after a federal judge ruled it illegally monopolized the digital advertising market — siding with the Justice Department in a case that could break up the company. The timing couldn’t be worse. With Meta, Apple, and Amazon also facing antitrust challenges, has Big Tech finally reached its day of reckoning?
Gemini 2.5 Flash 'thinks' on a budget

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI reasoning revolution just got a lot more affordable — with Google launching its new Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview with performance rivaling top models at significantly lower costs. With a toggle to control when thinking kicks in and a “budget” for balancing quality, speed, and cost, could this be the model that finally scales reasoning to the masses? P.S. — our next workshop is TODAY at 4 PM EST.
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini arrive

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, two new reasoning models that president Greg Brockman called a “GPT-4 level qualitative step into the future.”With o3 pushing SOTA across all benchmarks and supposedly capable of creating new scientific ideas, is this the leap that finally puts the AI world at AGI’s doorstep?
Meta's blockbuster antitrust trial

1 week ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Meta and the FTC are now facing off in a long-awaited antitrust trial that could force the tech giant to sell Instagram and WhatsApp over what the FTC describes as a case of illegally monopolizing social media. As Zuckerberg faces Big Tech’s biggest stress test to date, will Meta battle its way out, or will regulators prevail in clamping down on “buy or bury” strategies that wipe out competition?
Ilya's SSI skyrockets to $32B

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever just reportedly raised another massive round for his AI startup, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), catapulting its valuation to $32B in mere months. But with no product in sight—just a bold vision for superintelligence and Sutskever's reputation—is this the most audacious bet yet in the AI funding frenzy, or a glimpse of Silicon Valley's new normal?
ChatGPT now remembers everything

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | TikTok Bytedance |Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a massive memory boost, enabling it to automatically remember and reference key information across all your conversations without being asked. Is this persistent memory the breakthrough that finally turns ChatGPT into the truly personalized AI assistant we've been waiting for?
OpenAI's dev-focused GPT-4.1

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI has “a lot of good stuff” lined up this week, according to Sam Altman—and its first release is a step back…in name only. A newly launched GPT-4.1 (?) family features million-token context windows, improved coding abilities, and significantly lower prices across the board — potentially laying a new foundation for the fast-approaching era of agentic AI development.
Google's massive AI day

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Google just turned its Cloud Next 2025 event into an AI showcase of epic proportions — revealing the company’s most powerful chip ever alongside upgrades across its entire ecosystem. With a new agentic coding platform, Gemini 2.5 Flash, an agent-to-agent framework, and upgrades to image, video, voice, and music platforms, the tech giant is becoming a one-stop shop for all things AI.
Silicon Valley eyes Greenland for tech utopia

2 weeks ago | tech.therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, tech enthusiasts. Silicon Valley tech billionaires are eyeing Greenland as the next big hub for innovation, envisioning a “freedom city” where regulation is as sparse as the island’s population. The tech utopia would host cutting-edge AI, autonomous vehicles, and space launches, turning the icy landscape into a hotbed of innovation.
AI creates 1-minute cartoons

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. AI-generated video has always faced major limitations in length and consistency, but new research may have just unlocked a major leap in storytelling capabilities. With researchers using a new method and a dataset of Tom and Jerry cartoons to create minute-long, coherent generations, the days of short, disconnected AI video clips may finally be numbered.