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🔄 Google reshuffles AI leadership as rivals pull ahead
🏦 Google Built a $200B Wall Street Machine for Anthropic
🤖 Four Top Google AI Researchers Form New Start-Up
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate any task with OpenAI Codex
🤖 5 AI Tools to check
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And now Meta’s coming for Claude Code. Meta’s dedicated coding agent, Muse Code, is currently in beta but is powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 AI model to take on “complex software engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes, writing code, and validating the results.”
Nvidia better watch out. Anthropic is the latest tech company aiming to design its own custom chips for AI usage. The Claude maker said it is planning to co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
Google just reshuffled its AI leadership, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis leaving his role to be the unit’s chairman and Alphabet’s chief scientist, and 27-year veteran Jeff Dean leaving to co-found a startup focused on scientific discovery. Hassabis, a key figure in AI, hands daily control to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will steer work on frontier models, including Gemini 4, as senior VP.
Google's contracts total about $200 billion across chips and data centres, and roughly 80% of that money pays for tensor processing units. If every lease failed Google would owe $44 billion, and only $815 million of that appears on its balance sheet. Morgan Stanley set up a company called Compute SPV, which borrowed from Apollo and Blackstone in June and paid $35 billion for about one million chips.
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals have left Google to start a company called Discovery Loop. The team aims to build AI that can improve itself with little or no help from humans. Google plans to collaborate with the new startup and has agreed to provide the computing power it needs to build its AI technologies for at least the next year. Discovery Loop will operate as a public benefit corporation.
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AI Tutorial
How to automate any task with OpenAI Codex
Open OpenAI Codex > Plugins > enable Computer Use > start a new task
Switch permissions from Default to Full access, approve the required access prompts
Then give Codex a real task to complete
Sample Prompt: “Open [app/website/file], complete [task], then summarize the results and ask before making any major changes.”Codex can also handle repetitive desktop workflows across your apps, from organizing files and updating spreadsheets to testing websites and more
Note: AI tools can make mistakes, please be careful with sensitive data and tasks.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
📊 BrandRank.AI raises $3M to track how brands show up in ChatGPT and Claude answers.
🦾 Enigma emerges from stealth with $71M to bet robot interfaces, not raw AI, are the adoption bottleneck.
🎙️ Fish Audio raises $52M seed after growing to 8M users and $21M ARR in its first year.
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Identify 5 key mental models relevant to learning [subject/skill]. For each model, explain its application and suggest a practical exercise to internalize it. My learning goal is: [state your learning objective]. Present the results in a table with columns for "Mental Model", "Application", and "Exercise".If you found this prompt useful,
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