according to semianalysis, meta's offers to researchers aren't actually $100M.

they are actually offering $200M to $300M, over 4 years, PER RESEARCHER.

Grok4 checks elon musk opinion before answering anything

BIG news! The $3B OpenAI Windsurf acquisition fell through and the team might be going to Google DeepMind instead to work on "agentic" coding.

Will Google try to compete with Cursor now?

xAI's Grok AI assistant is landing on Tesla cars, with built-in integration in new models and software updates for older ones

The AI helper was recently updated with Grok 4, xAI's SOTA reasoning model, taking on OpenAI's o3 and Claude Opus 4

Moonshot AI released Kimi-K2, a 1T param open-source MoE model that:

—Surpasses frontier AI like GPT-4.1 and Claude Opus 4 on coding, with new highs on math and STEM
—Excels at agentic workflows with tool use
—Doesn't have multimodality or reasoning yet

OpenAI is delaying the release of its highly anticipated open-weight model

CEO Sam Altman shared on X that the company needs time to "run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas"

The model was originally planned for this week

Microsoft dropped Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning on Hugging Face

Built on a new hybrid architecture, the 3.8B model surpasses Phi-4-mini-Reasoning on major reasoning tasks, while delivering up to 10× higher throughput at 32K generation length

Meta has reportedly acquired voice AI startup PlayAI

The entire team of the company will now join the tech giant, working in its new Superintelligence Lab

They will be reporting to Johan Schalkwyk, who recently joined from Sesame AI

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic released best guides on:

- Prompt Engineering
- Building AI Agents
- AI in Business
- 601 AI use cases

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Elon Musk's xAI just introduced anime AI companions for SuperGrok subscribers

Users can have voice chats with avatars like Ani (a flirty anime character) and even unlock new features, like NSFW options, by reaching higher relationship levels

Mark Zuckerberg revealed Meta's plans to build AI superclusters in Louisiana and Ohio

The first 1GW facility, Prometheus, will come online in 2026, while “Hyperion” will scale from 2 to 5GW

The co is aiming for the highest compute-per-researcher ratio

Google launched Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM to let users explore curated notebooks on a variety of subjects

This content is being offered in partnership with The Economist, The Atlantic, and several expert authors

AWS launched Kiro, a new agentic IDE taking on Cursor

It combines agentic coding with spec-driven development to bridge the gap between AI prototypes and production-ready apps — even when they get too complex

Free preview now available

Anthropic launched a directory of apps that can now connect with Claude

This list includes a range of apps and tools, including Canva, Figma, Linear, Notion, and Stripe

📰 Everything else in AI today

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is pushing back the release of its open-weight model to allow for additional safety testing.

Tesla is incorporating xAI’s Grok assistant into its vehicles, with newly purchased cars coming with a built-in integration and support via software updates for older models.

xAI released a post detailing the technical issues that led to Grok-3’s offensive posts last week, linking them to the mistaken incorporation of “deprecated instructions.”

Meta acquired voice AI startup PlayAI, with the entire team reportedly joining the company next week and reporting to former Sesame AI ML Lead Johan Schalkwyk.

Microsoft released Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, a 4B open model designed to run efficient advanced reasoning capabilities for on-device use cases.

X users uncovered that Grok 4 consults Elon Musk’s posts during its thinking process, with xAI pushing a system update to stop basing its answers on its creator’s remarks.

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