🕶️ Zuckerberg’s AI Avengers keep growing

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Ten bullets of updates

1. 🎥 Twitch CEO Dan Clancy shares insights on AI’s role in live streaming and reveals that two-thirds of platform revenue is driven by fans.

2. 🖨️ eufyMake’s UV printer breaks Kickstarter records, raising $44M and pushing 3D printing innovation to new levels.

3. 💻 Microsoft’s iconic "blue screen of death" is turning black, part of the Windows Resiliency Initiative following an 8.5M device outage.

4. 🐾 Petlibro's new AI Scout Camera monitors your pets, offers real-time insights, and costs just $100! 📹

5. 👤 Denmark will allow citizens to copyright their facial features as a measure against deepfakes—receiving strong cross-party backing.

6. 🚗 Elon Musk fires Tesla’s top exec Omead Afshar amid a staggering 71% profit drop and sluggish 2025 H1 sales.

7. 🗨️ Anthropic's chatbot Claude is rarely used for companionship—only 0.5% of chats involve roleplay, according to a new report.

8. 🇨🇭 Switzerland now leads the world in deep tech investments, with 60% of Swiss VC funds going toward the sector and a $2.3B 2025 target. 🚀

9. 🏭 Henrik Werdelin aims to launch up to 100,000 companies annually via his AI startup studio, taking a 15% revenue share.

10. 💡 Cluely, backed by Andreessen Horowitz with $15M, positions itself as the AI startup to "cheat on everything"—and it’s gaining momentum.

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Zuckerberg’s AI Avengers: now featuring Trapit Bansal

Meta has hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher behind its first AI reasoning model, to join its new AI superintelligence unit—part of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100M talent grab strategy. Bansal, known for his work on reinforcement learning, joins a growing team of ex-OpenAI, DeepMind, and Scale AI leaders tasked with building frontier reasoning models to rival OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1.

While Meta doesn’t yet offer public reasoning models, it’s clearly aiming to change that. The company’s aggressive recruiting — including failed acquisition attempts and poaching top minds — has caught the attention of Sam Altman, who insists his “best people” haven’t jumped ship. Meta’s latest hires suggest otherwise.

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OpenAI just went shopping — and bagged a rec startup

Crossing Minds, an AI startup specializing in privacy-focused recommendation systems for e-commerce, is joining OpenAI, bringing its team and expertise into the fold of one of the world’s leading AI labs. Backed by investors like Index Ventures and Shopify, the startup raised over $13.5 million and worked with brands like Intuit and Chanel to personalize user experiences without compromising data privacy.

Co-founder Alexandre Robicquet now lists his role at OpenAI as focused on research, post-training, and agents, signaling a potential integration of Crossing Minds’ capabilities into OpenAI’s product ecosystem. While it’s unclear if the full team is making the move, the company has stopped accepting new clients, underscoring a full pivot. The acquisition aligns with OpenAI’s expanding push into shopping-related AI tools and recommendation features, as it looks to compete with offerings from Google, Perplexity, and well-funded upstarts like Daydream.

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Startup Events and Deadlines

1. Entrepreneur First Bangalore - Fall l Deadline: Jun 29 l Bangalore

2. Slidebean Webinar: Financial Modeling Bootcamp l Jul 1 l Online

3. Entrepreneur First London - Summer | Deadline: July 6 | UK

4. Crash Course on Startup Fundraising with Caya (Slidebean CEO) l Jul 9 l Online

5. Startupbootcamp | Energy & Sustainability | Deadline: Aug 10 | South Africa

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