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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🛑 China Blocks Meta’s $2 Billion Takeover of Manus
📱 OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with iPhone
👀 David Silver Raised $1.1Bn to Build AI Without Human Data
🌕 Meta Inked a Deal For Solar Power at Night
💡 AI Tutorial:Using AI Overviews to Search Smarter in Gmail
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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OpenAI and Microsoft reworked their partnership terms, ending Microsoft's exclusivity over OAI’s IP, killing the AGI clause, and freeing OpenAI to ship products on any cloud while Microsoft keeps a revenue share through 2030. OAI can now utilize rival clouds like Amazon Bedrock, with Microsoft still remaining a main cloud partner with Azure-first launch access through 2032.
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SaaS pricing has changed. Your billing stack probably hasn't. As usage-based and hybrid models become the default, finance teams are left stitching together spreadsheets, reconciling data manually, and closing books under pressure. The cost? Revenue leakage, audit risk, and forecasts no one trusts.
Our new Buyer's Guide for Modern SaaS Billing breaks down exactly what to demand from a revenue platform built for today's complexity — from automated usage billing to AI-native collections and rev rec. Whether you're evaluating vendors or rethinking your stack, this is your framework for getting it right.
This could get messy. China’s state planner has called for Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup. The deal has attracted critics from both China and Washington as U.S. lawmakers prohibit the investment backing of Chinese AI companies and Beijing has discouraged Chinese AI founders from moving business offshore.
OpenAI plans to launch its first phone in 2028. The company is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors. Mass production is expected to start in 2028. Specifications and suppliers are expected to be finalized by late 2026 or Q1 2027. The phone will likely heavily utilize AI agents, making it work and feel very different from current smartphones.
Just a few months ago, former DeepMind researcher David Silver founded Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab. Now, it’s raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to create a “superlearner” AI model capable of discovering knowledge and skills without relying on human data by leveraging reinforcement learning.
Electricity for AI models no longer has a curfew. Meta signed an agreement with startup Overview Energy that may result in a thousand satellites powering data centers at night. Overview, which emerged from stealth in December, is developing spacecraft that collects plentiful solar power in space then converts that energy to near-infrared light to beam it at large solar farms to convert to electricity.
Your ads ran overnight. Nobody was watching. Except Viktor.
One brand built 30+ landing pages through Viktor without a single developer.
Each page mapped to a specific ad group. All deployed within hours. Viktor wrote the code and shipped every one from a Slack message.
That same team has Viktor monitoring ad accounts across the portfolio and posting performance briefs before the day starts. One colleague. Always on. Across every account.
AI Tutorial
Using AI Overviews to Search Smarter in Gmail
Go to Gmail and sign in
In the Gmail search bar, ask natural language questions or key phrases to quickly find information within your inbox.
Example: "When is my flight to Amsterdam?" or "Show me my concert tickets."
Gmail will generate an AI Overview using information from relevant emails.
You can provide feedback on an AI Overview by selecting thumbs up or down.
Note: This feature is currently only available in the US and in English. It works on both the web and the Gmail app for Google AI Pro or Ultra plan users, while work or school accounts are limited to the web only.
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How Intrepid hit record profits without dropping its principles
29% revenue growth. Record profits. And a company willing to say what didn't go to plan. Intrepid's 2025 Integrated Annual Report shows how purpose and profitability scaled together, and what it's targeting next on the path to $1bn.
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