👀In Case You Missed It

  • Meta’s model reveal? After billion-dollar poaching, all eyes are on whether Zuck drops a Claude-killer this August.

  • Anthropic funding finalised – Expect a formal $5B close this week and an investor letter to follow.

  • OpenAI’s Stargate Europe buildout – First Norway data centre details could surface; watch for environmental scrutiny.

  • Google NotebookLM update – Rumours suggest live voiceover narration tools hit by mid-August.

  • NVIDIA black market crackdown – U.S. Commerce Dept may tighten export loopholes within the week.

  • Claude app expansion – Email/calendar tools hint at Claude becoming your mobile chief of staff.

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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch

  • Google’s AlphaEarth AI integrates satellite data into high-precision, real-time global mapping.
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  • OpenAI’s Stargate Norway marks its first EU data centre, backed by Aker and Nscale.
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  • NotebookLM adds Video Overviews—turns docs into narrated, animated slideshows with visuals.
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  • OpenAI’s Study Mode guides learning with hints, quizzes, and reflection prompts.
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  • Runway’s Aleph FX edits real footage via AI, adding rain, lighting, camera angles.
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💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves

  • Meta plans up to $72B spend on AI infra in 2025, doubling from 2024.
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  • Groq seeks $600M funding, nearing $6B valuation to challenge NVIDIA in AI chips.
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  • Anthropic nears $5B funding at $170B valuation, with sovereign fund participation.
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  • DTE Energy eyes 7GW new capacity for hyperscaler data centres.
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  • Quantum error rate hits record low, enabling faster, smaller quantum hardware.
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🧠  Insight of the Day

Superintelligence isn't open source. It's poached.

Meta's $1B talent raid on Mira Murati's team says it all: the AI arms race won’t be won with parameters or data alone—it’s a people war. Forget compute—who gets to train the best minds is what matters now. Build your lab like it's the next Manhattan Project... because your rivals already are.

🏢 Sovereign and Data Centre News

  • Amazon signs $25M/year AI content licensing deal with The New York Times.
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  • Uruguay’s Antel to build two new sovereign data centres.
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  • Eclipse and Carlton to power new Manchester hyperscale energy park.
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  • OpenAI and Microsoft renegotiate post-AGI control terms, reshaping partner dynamics.
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🗓️ This Day in AI - July 31

🧠 2021 – Meta tests early EMG wearables for AR control
Back in 2021, Meta’s Reality Labs quietly piloted electromyography-based wristbands to decode muscle signals — a precursor to today’s smart neuro-interface push.

📷 2022 – Runway’s Gen-1 alpha showed early signs of text-to-video control
Still limited to creatives, Gen-1 hinted at the power of prompt-based video manipulation — long before Aleph’s "endless coverage" dropped jaws.

💻 2023 – China proposes first global AI development treaty draft
With the U.S. locked in export bans, China proposed a collaborative open-source AI framework… which got ignored, then quietly mimicked a year later.

🚀 2024 – XerpaAI launches Growth Agent alpha
XerpaAI’s beta launch offered autonomous GTM support for startups — now it powers 80% of blockchain + AI launches under $10M.

💰 2025 – Anthropic’s $170B valuation stuns market watchers
In a funding frenzy, Anthropic nears a $5B round with sovereign fund backing. Three years ago? It was just a safer-sounding OpenAI clone.

🏦 Global AI Investments

  • Amazon backs Fable’s “Netflix of AI” for interactive, user-generated animated series.
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  • Ramp hits $22.5B valuation, 45 days after reaching $16B, powered by AI.
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  • CyberArk acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $25B in cybersecurity-AI consolidation.
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  • IMAX to screen AI-generated films by Runway this August.
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🛠️ AI Tools To Keep An Eye On

  • 🤖 Hyperstack – A cloud-native platform built for autonomous agents. Delivers fast inference, low-latency orchestration, and seamless GPU abstraction—ideal for startups deploying LLMs at scale with minimal overhead.

    🎥 Wan2.2 – Alibaba’s cinematic-grade video model. Generates detailed, high-frame-rate clips with scene control and motion accuracy—perfect for marketing, storytelling, or prototyping without expensive VFX resources.

    📊 Shortcut AI – Supercharges spreadsheet work by translating natural language into formulas, dashboards, and insights. Saves hours of manual work and makes data analysis accessible to non-technical users.

    📚 ChatGPT Study Mode – OpenAI’s guided learning assistant. Breaks complex topics into bite-sized, Socratic prompts and adaptive quizzes—ideal for students and professionals mastering difficult material step by step.

👀What To Watch Next

  • Meta’s model reveal? After billion-dollar poaching, all eyes are on whether Zuck drops a Claude-killer this August.

  • Anthropic funding finalised – Expect a formal $5B close this week and an investor letter to follow.

  • OpenAI’s Stargate Europe buildout – First Norway data centre details could surface; watch for environmental scrutiny.

  • Google NotebookLM update – Rumours suggest live voiceover narration tools hit by mid-August.

  • NVIDIA black market crackdown – U.S. Commerce Dept may tighten export loopholes within the week.

  • Claude app expansion – Email/calendar tools hint at Claude becoming your mobile chief of staff.

🏁 Outro: Until Tomorrow…

Whether it's Meta's $72B AI infrastructure sprint or Google's virtual satellites mapping Earth, one thing’s clear: we’re not in the “experiments” phase anymore — we’re in the scaling warzone. Today's updates show how fast AI tools are hardening into core business infrastructure, not just novelty layers.

Same time tomorrow. Bring snacks — the robots are eating everything else.

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