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Seven bullets of updates

1. 😂 Anthropic’s AI ‘Claudius’ fails hilariously as a vending machine CEO, hoarding tungsten cubes.

2. 📚 Google launches 30+ AI tools for education, including Gemini-powered tutors and classroom assistants.

3. 🧠 OpenAI recalibrates compensation after Meta poaches 8 researchers, fueling $100M offer rumors.

4. 🚀 Netflix partners with NASA to livestream rocket launches and space missions.

5. 🚗 Tesla’s Model Y completes a 15-mile driverless delivery with no remote assistance.

6. 🧳 Former Meta engineers launch Airial, an AI travel tool with $3M in seed funding.

7. 🏥 Microsoft unveils medical AI that diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy.

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Meta’s AI glow-up: new Lab, new chief, and poached brains

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division that will centralize the company’s AI initiatives under a bold vision for developing "personal superintelligence for everyone". The group will be led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI—now Meta’s new Chief AI Officer—and supported by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. MSL will include Meta’s existing AI product and research teams, including FAIR, and will be bolstered by 11 high-profile hires from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, such as Jack Rae, Trapit Bansal, and Joel Pobar.

The move follows Meta’s $14.3B investment in Scale AI and its aggressive recruitment tactics, which reportedly included compensation offers exceeding $100M—claims publicly denied by Meta’s CTO. Zuckerberg emphasized that superintelligence marks a transformative era for humanity, as Meta prepares to release its next-generation AI models within the next year.

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These companies just raised money

1. 📦 Levelpath secures $55M Series B to revolutionize procurement with AI-first tools.

2. 💼 Campfire raises $35M Series A to challenge NetSuite with fast AI-powered ERP.

3. 👨‍👩‍👧 Halogen Ventures closes a $30M Fund III focused on startups shaping the “future of family.”

4. 🧩 Tailor snags $22M Series A to build a modular, headless ERP platform.

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Trump’s TikTok countdown: billionaires, buyouts, and Beijing

In a recent Fox News interview, President Donald Trump stated that a long-anticipated TikTok deal is imminent, with the names of the “very wealthy people” involved to be revealed in the coming weeks. The sale is being forced by a U.S. law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban by mid-September. While Trump didn’t disclose specific buyers, notable bids have come from billionaire Frank McCourt, Kevin O’Leary, Alexis Ohanian, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, AppLovin, Perplexity AI, and Amazon—with some reportedly meeting at the White House. Trump expressed optimism that China’s President Xi Jinping will approve the sale, and reiterated that he does not want TikTok to “go dark” in the U.S.

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