EP-259 Openai’s $3b Coding Assistant Acquisition 💰, Microsoft’s Cpu-based Ai Revolution 🚀, Xai’s Memory Feature for Grok Chatbot 🧠

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for thursday, april 17th! dive into today's top tech stories:

• openai's acquisition talks: openai is negotiating to acquire windsurf, an ai coding assistant leader, in a potential $3 billion deal, possibly affecting its standing with anysphere's cursor.
• microsoft's bitnet innovation: introduction of bitnet b1.58 2b4t, a cpu-compatible, hyper-efficient ai model, providing memory and speed advantages despite lacking gpu support.
• xai’s grok memory feature: new "memory" capability for the grok chatbot enhances personalized responses but is yet to be available in the eu and uk.
• zoom outage resolved: zoom overcame a significant service disruption affecting user access, though the root cause remains undisclosed.
• openai's enhanced safety measures: introduction of safety protocols in ai models o3 and o4-mini to restrict content related to biological and chemical hazards.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!