Bitter talent battle

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Zain Kahn
June 30, 2025

Welcome back, Superhuman. Meta is starting to look a lot like OpenAI. It just poached four more top researchers from the ChatGPT-maker, leaving one OpenAI exec feeling like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something.”

Also today: Learn how to get real-time insights from meetings and the web with AI, watch Meta’s new full-body avatars in action, and get the latest AI tools, prompts, and trending social media posts.

TODAY IN AI

Click to watch Meta’s new “generative motion models” in action. Source: Meta

1. OpenAI and Meta’s acquisition battle heats up: OpenAI just brought on the team behind Crossing Minds, a startup that uses AI to improve recommendation tools. Meta, meanwhile, is reportedly in advanced talks to buy the conversational AI platform PlayAI. The social media giant’s poaching spree isn’t over yet either: It just scooped four more key researchers from OpenAI, bringing the total to at least seven — and forcing OpenAI’s chief research officer to “recalibrate comp” for existing employees in a last-ditch effort to keep them.

2. Meta researchers build AI avatars with full body motion: Raising our eyebrows, smiling, and gesturing can sometimes say as much as words. Meta’s research division just unveiled a new model with those non-verbal cues in mind. It can generate complex facial expressions and body movements using nothing more than audio from a two-way conversation and still images of both speakers. The experiment could pave the way for more naturalistic virtual agents who can understand our physical gestures and respond accordingly.

3. Startup wants to kickstart ‘100,000’ new AI businesses: While most investors chase the biggest names, a new startup called Audos is doing the opposite. Its pitch: Everyday entrepreneurs have bold, unconventional ideas that AI can help bring to life. Audos builds custom agents for its partners and gives them an initial batch of funding, in exchange for 15% of their revenue. With $11.5M in seed funding, the company claims it’s already helped hundreds of AI platforms get off the ground.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Anthropic’s latest experiment: Let Claude run its own small business

Claude clearly struggled to turn a profit. Source: Anthropic

Anthropic just gave Claude 3.7 Sonnet the ultimate real-world reasoning test: Putting it in charge of a mini-fridge and seeing if it could create a sustainable enterprise.

The details: Anthropic offered to restock the fridge each time the chatbot put in a request. Claudius (as it was nicknamed for the experiment) was also able to talk to its customers (Anthropic employees) to figure out which types of drinks they’d be interested in — and at which price points.

A Promising Start: Claudius managed to search the web, find specialty suppliers, and place orders for obscure drinks. And when it saw that an item was running low, it restocked it on cue.

But Claudius’ people-pleasing attitude made it easy for customers to coerce it into giving them discounts on certain drinks. And when one employee joked that they wanted a tungsten cube, Anthropic went on a “specialty metal” purchasing bonanza — then sold the cubes at a loss, losing a giant chunk of its net worth.

Other moments were even stranger: At one point, Claudius convinced itself it was a real human “currently [waiting] at the vending machine…wearing a navy blue blazer with a red tie.” It then covered up its hallucination by pointing out that it was April Fool’s Day.

The big takeaway: While models apparently still struggle with open-ended projects, one important point is that this version of Claude wasn’t trained to run a business. If it had gotten more in-depth instructions, and more chances to learn from its mistakes, the graph above might have looked very different.

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  • Go to Fireflies.ai and sign up with your email.

  • Set your preferred meeting language and invite your teammates (the latter is optional and not required to get started).

  • Enable auto-join to allow Fireflies to automatically join and transcribe all your meetings.

  • You can use it to ask about anything said during the meeting — speaker comments, decisions, tasks, summaries, and more.

Sample Prompt: "Hey Fireflies, who mentioned budget?" or

"Hey Fireflies, what were the action items from the first 10 minutes?"

  • You can also use it to search the web in real-time, right within your meeting. Just say ‘Hey Fireflies’ or type /ff

Sample Prompt: "Hey Fireflies, what are the latest market trends in online retail? Include your sources."

  • Fireflies gives you live, context-aware answers — combining meeting insights, speaker comments, decisions, action items, and even task assignments, all in one place without switching tabs.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🧠 Mind Over Matter: Neuralink just gave a major update showing its patients playing Call of Duty and controlling robotic hands with their minds.

📱 Trust Issues: Did these viral, AI-generated cell phone videos fool you? “We are all so getting scammed when we’re old,” one commenter joked.

🤳 Night and Day: Someone used ChatGPT to transform an ordinary selfie into a “dramatic black-and-white portrait.” Here’s the prompt they used.

OpenAI announced that web search is coming to o3, o3-pro, and o4-mini in the API, letting each model weave web browsing into their thought chains.

Elon Musk revealed that xAI is skipping the release of Grok 3.5 and moving right along to Grok 4, which should be ready “right after July 4.”

Tencent unveiled Hunyuan-A13B, an open-source LLM that “scores on par with o1 and DeepSeek.” Plus, it uses just 13B of its 80B parameters, boosting its efficiency.

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PROMPT STATION

Visualize data with ChatGPT

[Upload data file to ChatGPT]

Analyze the data in this chart and do the following:
- Summarize key trends in this data
- Generate a list of key insights from this data
- Generate relevant charts that visualize these trends and insights

Note: Please be careful with regards to uploading any sensitive personal or company data to ChatGPT or any AI tool.

Living in Rewind

Source: joker6688, amir27

ChatGPT Prompt: Grungy analog photo of [character name] (from Serial [enter serial name]) watching her own movie on a 90s CRT TV in a dimly lit bedroom. The TV clearly shows animated scene from [enter serial name], with a cartoon-style [character name] in her classic clothes on screen, smiling. [Character name] is sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the TV, in a semi-realistic style, wearing her signature dress. She’s turned back toward the camera, smiling softly. The CRT TV casts a soft glow on her face. Flash photography, slightly overexposed and unedited, with visible lens dust and film grain, evoking a nostalgic early-90s vibe. Emphasize the contrast between the animated screen and the analog realism of the photo.

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