Tech updates from around the web

[The Next Web] Meta’s new long-term AI study sounds a lot like OpenAI’s current dead-end

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[The Next Web] Analysis: Here’s what to expect now that Musk owns Twitter

[The Next Web] Breaking: Elon Musk buys Twitter

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[The Next Web] FOMO is a TinyML neural network for real-time object detection

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[The Next Web] John Deere is slowly becoming one of the world’s most important AI companies

[The Next Web] An inventor resurrected his imaginary friend with AI — then it tried to murder him

[The Next Web] New experiment demonstrates that reality might actually be real

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[The Next Web] Benelux is set to become a unicorn factory, founders and investors best take note

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