🕵️ Google's Secret in Its 3,295 Researchers

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  • 🤖 Softbank: First billion AI agents by 2025

  • 🤝 Cursor Acquired Koala to Compete With GitHub Copilot

  • 🚀 Vibe coding startup Lovable catapults to unicorn status

  • 🎧 Adobe’s new AI tool turns silly noises into realistic audio effects

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate research with Claude Sonnet

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"The era when humans program is nearing its end within our group", says Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. "Our aim is to have AI agents completely take over coding and programming. (...) we are currently initiating the process for that."

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How many AI researchers does it take to write a paper? According to Google: 3,295, plus one secret Easter egg.This week, researchers discovered that Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper also hid a surprise. If you take the first initials of the paper’s first 43 authors, there’s bigger message: AI development has become a massive team sport, model papers starting to look more like phone books.

Anysphere, the startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor, is acquiring AI-powered customer relationship management (CRM) startup Koala to bolster its competition with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. Cursor will bring on several of Koala’s top engineers to build out a dedicated enterprise-readiness team, but they won’t get Koala’s entire team and Cursor has no plans to integrate the startup’s core CRM product.

Despite being less than a year old, Swedish AI startup Lovable just landed $200M in a Series A round that values the app-building platform at $1.8B. With 2.3M active users, the company has made a name for itself by catering to non-coders, including many who use it to draft mockups and prototypes before bringing them to developers for additional help.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

💬 Slack Expanded its AI Features

🚖 Uber & Lucid Inked a $300M 6-Year Deal

🤖 Meta Appointed Connor Hayes as Head of Threads

🤐 Anthropic quietly tightens Claude limits, $200 Max users left in the dark

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