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  • 💰 OpenAI Foundation puts $250M for Shared AI Prosperity

  • 🤖 Tesla's dedicated Optimus factory construction officially underway

  • 🦾 Amazon is Selling its AI Shopping Tech to Other Retailers

  • ✌️ OpenAI Stole ServiceNow’s CMO

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to build Android apps using Google AI Studio

  • 🤖 5 AI Tools to check

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OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit arm that owns 26% of OpenAI’s for-profit business, committed an initial $250M to fund grants, partnerships, and direct work helping workers, communities, and economies navigate AI-driven disruption. The funds will drive efforts to understand AI’s economic impact, support workers facing near-term disruption, and build long-term economic security.

$1.1 Billion in Art Sold in Less Than Three Hours

A single evening only brought in $1 billion at auction one other time, Paul Allen’s estate in 2022.

Christie’s May 18 evening sale was headlined by:

  • Pollock: $181.2M, nearly 3x his previous record

  • Brancusi: $107.6M, second highest sculpture price ever

  • Rothko: $98.4M, a new record for the artist

Obvious outliers, but the evening capped a spring auction season that totaled $2.5 billion (roughly 2x last year). This follows a Q1’26 that saw the postwar contemporary art market grow 23.1%.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Biohub just released new Evolutionary Scale Models, creating an engine to map, predict, and design proteins — with the open system showing results against cancer and immune disease targets. The highlight is ESMFold2, a model built on a protein language model (ESMC) trained on 2.8B sequences to predict protein structure and design proteins.

Tesla's new Optimus factory is officially under construction at Gigafactory Texas. The project will add more than 5.2 million square feet of new industrial space. Tesla plans to build about 27,000 Optimus robots a day at the new factory. Production will start either in July or August of this year, with high-volume output starting in Summer 2027.

Amazon just killed off its AI shopping assistant Rufus and upgraded Alexa to fill its spot… and now it’s selling the feature to other retailers. In a blog post today, the tech leader said the new service will allow retailers to launch their own AI shopping tools tailored to their storefront, catalog, and branding “in as little as 60 days.”

When Sam Altman comes a callin’… ServiceNow’s Chief Marketing Officer Colin Fleming announced that he’s departing the software company to join OpenAI as CMO of its business unit. The executive spent two years at ServiceNow following 13 years at SalesForce in their Product and Global Marketing divisions.

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AI Tutorial

How to build Android apps using Google AI Studio

You don’t need to know how to code to build a simple Android app. You can use Google AI Studio to describe the app you want, test it in your browser, and keep editing it with simple prompts. Here is how:

  1. Go to Google AI Studio and sign in with your Google account.

  2. Click “Build” or start a new app project.

  3. Choose the Android app option from the drop-down menu

  4. Describe the app you want to build & let AI Studio build it.

  5. Test the app in the browser using the Android emulator.

  6. If something is wrong, type what you want to change.

  7. You can also test the app on a real Android phone before sharing it.

  8. When you are done, download the project as a ZIP file, send it to GitHub, or keep working on it in Android Studio.

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  5. HuePress is a SaaS platform providing therapy-grade, high-quality printable coloring pages

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💰 Cognition raises $1B at $26B, more than doubling in eight months.

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