📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit arm that owns 26% of OpenAI’s for-profit business, committed an initial $250M to fund grants, partnerships, and direct work helping workers, communities, and economies navigate AI-driven disruption. The funds will drive efforts to understand AI’s economic impact, support workers facing near-term disruption, and build long-term economic security.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Biohub just released new Evolutionary Scale Models, creating an engine to map, predict, and design proteins — with the open system showing results against cancer and immune disease targets. The highlight is ESMFold2, a model built on a protein language model (ESMC) trained on 2.8B sequences to predict protein structure and design proteins.

Tesla's new Optimus factory is officially under construction at Gigafactory Texas. The project will add more than 5.2 million square feet of new industrial space. Tesla plans to build about 27,000 Optimus robots a day at the new factory. Production will start either in July or August of this year, with high-volume output starting in Summer 2027.

Amazon just killed off its AI shopping assistant Rufus and upgraded Alexa to fill its spot… and now it’s selling the feature to other retailers. In a blog post today, the tech leader said the new service will allow retailers to launch their own AI shopping tools tailored to their storefront, catalog, and branding “in as little as 60 days.”

When Sam Altman comes a callin’… ServiceNow’s Chief Marketing Officer Colin Fleming announced that he’s departing the software company to join OpenAI as CMO of its business unit. The executive spent two years at ServiceNow following 13 years at SalesForce in their Product and Global Marketing divisions.

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💰 Cognition raises $1B at $26B, more than doubling in eight months.

🏭 Nvidia bets $150B a year on Taiwan as its AI manufacturing hub.

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