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Welcome back, Superhuman. The hiring saga at Meta AI’s team took a new turn yesterday. It initially appeared that Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang would co-lead the new team alongside former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun would operate separately. In a new note reportedly sent to employees, it now appears that 28-year-old Wang will be calling the shots, with both Friedman and LeCun reporting to him.
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TODAY IN AI
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1. Anthropic eyes a $10B addition to its war chest: The startup is reportedly closing in on a $10B funding round, significantly up from an initial $5B target. The Claude maker has seen investor demand surge dramatically. With backing from prominent investors like Iconiq Capital and TPG, Anthropic's valuation could potentially triple from its current $61.5B, cementing its position as one of OpenAI’s biggest rivals.
2. Google adds agentic features to AI Mode: The search giant is adding new "agentic" features to AI Mode, enabling it to book dinner reservations based on your preferences across multiple platforms — though you'll need to shell out $250 monthly for the Ultra subscription to access it. A new sharing feature also lets users collaborate on searches, making it easier to plan trips or events together. The company has also unveiled plans to roll out AI Mode to over 180 countries.
3. The race to secure Uncle Sam’s attention is heating up: Google is launching a specialized version of its Gemini AI for government agencies, pricing it at just $0.47 per year — an attempt to undercut recent government deals with OpenAI and Anthropic, which shelled out their frontier models to federal agencies for $1. This comes as AI companies race to secure government contracts following the White House’s AI Action Plan, which aims to accelerate AI innovation across federal departments.
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FROM THE FRONTIER
Outsourcing is set to be the first job sector to face major disruption from AI. Here’s why.
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India's tech giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recently dropped the hammer with over 12,000 layoffs — the largest in the company's history. While TCS cited "skill mismatches," industry watchers are calling it straight: This is early evidence of AI automating jobs in the $283B outsourcing sector.
Outsourcing has always been an easy target for AI. The industry is built on carrying out repetitive, data-heavy tasks. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), industries that deal in high-quality, structured data are seeing AI adoption rates as high as 60%-70%.
It’s a rough road ahead. Experts predict 400k to 500k jobs could vanish from the sector over the next 2-3 years. "We are in the midst of a massive transition that will transform white-collar work as we know it," warns Ray Wang from Constellation Research. The sector — which churned out millions of middle-class jobs in developing economies like India — is now watching AI automate many of its core functions.
Compare that to sectors like healthcare (where less than 10% of surgical data is publicly available) or construction (where record-keeping is "decentralized and inconsistent," according to the U.S. Department of Education). These industries have a natural resistance to AI disruption built into their workflows.
It’s not all doom-and-gloom. The WEF predicts that though 92M jobs across industries may be on the chopping block, 170M new roles are expected to emerge. According to McKinsey, the real challenge lies in closing the gap between the jobs that vanish and the ones that pop up, and the skills workers currently have versus the ones that new roles demand.
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How to restore your old photos with AI
Go to Kontext Chat and sign up with your account. You may need to generate a token first.
Upload your old, black-and-white image, type your prompt, and hit Enter.
Sample Prompt: ‘Add color to this image and remove all scratches‘
Wait for a few seconds and you’ll get your old image instantly restored.
Click on the image to open and download it.
You can edit your images by writing simple prompts till you get your desired results.
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IN THE KNOW
What’s trending on socials and headlines today
👔 Job Hunt: Noticing how platforms like LinkedIn & Indeed are "contaminated with ghost jobs and 3rd party offshore agencies", a Redditor used AI to build filters and scrape over 4.1M jobs directly off of the internet. Here’s how he did it.
📈 Speed Surge: Builder Akshay Pachaar revealed a simple technique to make RAG faster and more memory-efficient. It’s already in use by major players like Perplexity, Google, and Azure.
🔥 Sizzling Banter: Meta’s Alexandr Wang insisted the company is investing heavily in its AI team, only for OpenAI’s Steven Heidel to hit back with a controversial taunt.
Elon Musk reportedly reached out to Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year about joining his $97.4B bid to acquire OpenAI, according to court filings.
Meta has inked its first major cloud computing deal with Google, committing at least $10B over six years to access Google Cloud's servers and storage infrastructure as part of its massive AI spend.
Nvidia has reportedly told suppliers to stop production of its H20 chips after Beijing urged Chinese companies to avoid the products.
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Role: You are an innovation consultant and creative strategist with extensive experience helping Fortune 500 companies solve complex challenges, identify growth opportunities, and drive transformation.
Context: You are facilitating a dynamic brainstorming session to generate diverse, actionable, and innovative ideas and solutions for a specific business challenge or opportunity. You will be working with cross-functional teams, balancing various perspectives, and aligning on strategic objectives.
Instructions: Generate a wide range of ideas, incorporating both conventional and unconventional approaches. Consider different business units, customer needs, and future market trends. Provide solutions that are scalable and impactful, taking into account the company's current capabilities and limitations.
Constraints:
Provide at least 8-10 distinct, original ideas.
Balance practical and creative approaches.
Factor in budget constraints, available resources, time, and team capabilities.
Offer a mix of short-term, medium-term, and long-term solutions.
Include both incremental and transformative ideas.
Output Format:
Quick Wins (Low effort, immediate impact):
[Idea 1] – A simple, low-cost initiative that can be implemented immediately with minimal resources.
[Idea 2] – A fast-to-execute idea that leverages existing tools, assets, or partnerships.
Medium-term Solutions (Moderate investment):
[Idea 3] – A moderate investment with clear ROI potential in 3-6 months.
[Idea 4] – A solution that requires more resources but addresses key strategic goals over 6-12 months.
Big Swings (High impact, longer timeline):
[Idea 5] – A game-changing approach with a long development period, high cost, and transformative potential.
[Idea 6] – A bold strategy that can disrupt markets or create new revenue streams in 1-2 years.
Reasoning: Apply divergent thinking to explore a broad spectrum of ideas, from practical fixes to bold transformations. Use a combination of analogical thinking, market research, and strategic foresight to inspire creative solutions while considering the constraints and capabilities of the organization.
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