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About
Sarah Chen is a leading voice in AI journalism, bringing deep technical expertise to her coverage of machine learning breakthroughs and their real-world applications. With a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, she spent four years as an ML Engineer at OpenAI, where she contributed to the GPT-3 research team and witnessed firsthand the evolution of large language models.
Before joining Devthusiast, Sarah served as a Research Scientist at Meta AI, focusing on computer vision and multimodal learning systems. Her unique combination of hands-on research experience and journalistic instinct allows her to cut through the hype and deliver actionable insights on AI developments that matter to tech founders.
Sarah's work has been cited by The New York Times, Wired, and MIT Technology Review. She's a regular speaker at NeurIPS and ICML conferences, bridging the gap between academic research and practical applications.
Articles by Sarah (20)
Google and Apple Push AI Music to the Masses
Gemini now makes 30-second songs (18+ with watermarks); Apple's Music app spins 25-song playlists from prompts. Quotas, safeguards, and lawsuits apply.
Anthropic-Pentagon Clash Over $200M, 'all Lawful Use'
Pentagon review and rare 'supply chain risk' threat after Anthropic seeks bans on autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance; rivals loosen guardrails on unclassified systems.
Nvidia Nemotron and Nemo Fuel Sovereign AI Builds
Open-weight models plus an Apache-2.0 toolkit let you run private LLMs on your own GPUs; expect H100/A100-class hardware and real MLOps.
Aws Buildout Targets 2027-28, Cloud Still <20%
In a CNBC Fortt Knox chat, AWS chief Matt Garman said Amazon is building data centers and power for 2027-28 as AI demand outruns supply.
Google's Gemini Writes Math Paper, Credit Gets Messy
Google's Aletheia agent, powered by Gemini Deep Think, helped generate research-level math - including one paper with no human reasoning - raising questions about authorship, verification, and what 'publishable' means in 2026.
Apple Buys Q.ai for Roughly $1.6-$2B
Silent speech on AirPods? Apple just paid big for tech that reads facial micromovements.
Anthropic $380B Bet Shakes Saas, Coding Is the Wedge
Anthropic’s Feb. 5 Cowork plugins (legal, finance, more) sparked a ~$285B software selloff, and the real fight is for the orchestration layer, not the model.
Micron $200B Bet Puts Memory at Ai's Choke Point
Boise gets $50B, HBM/DRAM prices spike, and hyperscalers are locking up supply-Micron is building for a multi-year crunch.
Civiclick AI Flood Hit Socal Air Board, Rule Rejected
Public records tie 20,000+ opposition comments to CiviClick; a 7-5 vote on June 6, 2025, killed a gas-appliance fee. Agency insiders say the deluge mattered.
Alphabet’s $185B AI Spend Jolts Global Markets
Tech shed ~$850B this month as AI capex shock hit; silver whipsawed ~10%, oil slid on US-Iran talks, bitcoin hovered near $70K.
Brainiac Foundation Model Tops Brain MRI Tasks
Pretrained on unlabeled scans, validated on 48,965 MRIs across seven tasks, and published in Nature Neuroscience-BrainIAC beats task‑specific models when labeled data is thin.
Alphabet Q4: $113.8B on AI, Cloud Backlog Hits $240B
Search hit $63.1B, Cloud $17.7B, 8M Gemini Enterprise seats in 4 months - serving costs down 78%.
Alphabet Silent on $1B Apple Siri AI Deal
Alphabet dodged investor questions about a rumored $1B/year Siri pact - and said almost nothing useful.
News Sites Block Internet Archive, Is the Web Closing?
Top outlets cut Wayback access while quietly selling back catalogs to AI - NewsCorp’s deal topped $250M.
Triomics' AI Flags Trial Patients, Iu Health Tests If It Scales
Two community oncology clinics get an AI trial screener - testing if it finds patients without wrecking workflows.
Microsoft's AI Chip Splurge Tests Investor Patience
Stock down 13.4% in 30 days-Microsoft bets big on Maia 200 and data-center muscle, now the market wants payback.
Fingerprint Verifies AI Agents, Claims Market Lead
US device‑intelligence firm Fingerprint rolled out “Authorized AI Agent Detection,” using IETF‑aligned cryptographic signatures to tell trusted automation from fraud.
Nvidia and OpenAI $100B Deal Stalled, but They're Still Tangled
No signed contract yet, first gigawatt trigger delayed - but both still need each other for chips and headlines.
Gavin Newsom Faces Six Afl-Cio Leaders Demanding AI Worker Protections
Six union bigwigs want concrete AI guardrails - and sooner than Newsom’s likely 2028 campaign calendar.
Snowflake and OpenAI Lock $200M to Industrialize Enterprise AI
They dropped $200M to run OpenAI models inside Snowflake’s Data Cloud - with enterprise controls and less data schlepping.