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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

  • Character.ai, a chatbot platform, filed for bankruptcy five years after launch
  • Privacy-focused AI assistant Ollie recently announced its shutdown
  • 42% of AI initiatives abandoned by corporate parents, according to S&P Global

Keeping a product's label real in AI video: a tracker with no green screen

If you make ads for a small brand with an AI video model, the first complaint is rarely the motion or the light. It is the label.

  • Zaqero AI builds a tracker to maintain label authenticity in AI-generated product videos.
  • Vision model finds label corners in generated shots, providing JSON format coordinates.
  • Patch tracker matches label region across frames, preventing errors from accumulating.

I benchmarked AI decision APIs against XGBoost for fraud detection. XGBoost won, by a lot.

Between September and October, TypeSafe, OpenAI and Cloudflare all shipped "decision model" APIs: you send a case, ask one fixed question, and get a score back.

  • XGBoost outperformed AI APIs in fraud detection, catching more cases in top 100 reviews
  • AI approaches ran zero-shot, lacking training data, impacting accuracy
  • AI APIs were fast and cheap, but XGBoost's labeled training proved more effective

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