👀 ChatGPT is no longer the majority

1. Anthropic flew its top researchers to Washington to fight the Fable 5 ban. Models still down, no restoration date, and the government still hasn't shared the jailbreak that triggered it 🔒

2. SpaceX closed the $60B Cursor deal. All stock. Cursor's CEO is teasing a new Opus-class model coming in weeks 🚀

3. OpenAI's leaked financials show a brutal year. $17B went to Microsoft alone. 📉

4. DeepSeek raised $7.4B in its first-ever outside round. The deal structure is unlike anything in AI — investors get zero voting rights and Liang Wenfeng personally put in $3B 🇨🇳

1. Z.ai dropped GLM-5.2 — MIT open-weights, same pricing as before. Now the top open model for frontend coding, beating Opus 4.7 in Design Arena by a wide margin 🧪

2. Agents & Bagels — weekly SF breakfast for founders and builders

3. CoreWeave just trained DeepSeek-V3 671B in a time that didn't seem possible. A new MLPerf record on Nvidia's GB300 chips, on the same cloud customers actually use 🏎️

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Remember when Meta laid off 8,000 people in May? Well, they also moved 7,000 others into a new unit called Applied AI. No choice, you join or say bye.

Engineers who'd spent years building Instagram and WhatsApp got surprise transfer emails and were told to start generating training data. Puzzles. Coding problems. The monotonous grunt work that trains AI models. The unit was set up with 50 people under a single manager. That's not it. Some employees explicitly told reporters the unit felt like "literally the gulag."

It gets worse. More than 1,600 signed a petition against the keystroke and click tracking program Meta was running on their laptops to harvest behavioral data for AI agents. And someone hijacked an internal livestream in front of thousands of colleagues, demanding they tell a senior AI executive he was "a piece of sh*t." One presenter even covered their face.

Bosworth's (CTO) fix? More stability, better communication, and better-stocked snack kitchens. Guess that’s a win.

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