Meta steals another top AI talent, hiring Apple’s top AI model leader

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: Meta steals another top AI talent, hiring Apple’s top AI model leader + EU push forward implementation of its AI Act

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. Apple’s top AI model leader Ruoming Pang has reportedly defected to Meta, joining Zuckerberg’s growing AI superintelligence unit amid growing concerns about Apple’s lagging in-house AI performance and possible further defections.

2. Despite pushback from more than 100 tech firms including Alphabet and Meta, the EU declared it will not delay implementation of the AI Act, reaffirming a mid-2026 deadline and its commitment to regulating high-risk and unacceptable AI use cases.

3. Anthropic has proposed a flexible AI transparency framework for large model developers, requiring public disclosure of safety practices and legal accountability, while cautioning against rigid government rules that could hinder innovation.

4. Epoch AI's new report proposes a U.S.-led national AI initiative on the scale of the Apollo or Manhattan Projects, suggesting it could fund 27 million GPUs and develop a model 10,000 times larger than GPT-4 by 2027 through coordinated public-private investment.

5. AI chip startup Groq has opened its first European data center in Helsinki to expand its inferencing technology across the continent, emphasizing a fast deployment model and a supply chain advantage over Nvidia by avoiding high-bandwidth memory dependencies.

6. OpenAI is quietly testing a new ChatGPT tool called “Study Together,” which flips the tutoring dynamic by prompting users with questions instead of giving direct answers, potentially as a response to concerns over misuse in education.

7. Replit has launched Dynamic Intelligence for its AI Agent, combining deep reasoning, powerful model switching via Claude Opus, and real-time web search to help developers tackle large, complex coding problems with precision.

8. Researchers at multiple top global institutions have been caught embedding hidden prompts in academic papers to bias AI-powered peer review systems into giving overly positive feedback, according to a Nikkei Asia investigation.

9. Google is facing an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews in Search, as publishers allege the summaries misuse their content and are slashing web traffic, with no opt-out available short of disappearing from search altogether.

10. Cursor ignited developer outrage by quietly changing its flat Pro plan with a token-based system that rapidly depleted usage quotas, prompting surprise charges, mass cancellations, and prompting CEO Michael Truell to apologize and offer refunds while defending the move as necessary due to skyrocketing costs of advanced AI models like Claude.

11. Meta is testing AI chatbots that proactively message users across its platforms using remembered interactions to foster engagement, raising concerns over safety, commercialization, and its potential use in driving future ad revenue and subscription models.

💰 Top Funding News:

1.  In a $9Bn stock deal, CoreWeave is acquiring Core Scientific to secure over a gigawatt of AI-ready data center capacity, transforming former Bitcoin mining infrastructure into critical compute power for the generative AI race.

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