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Meta’s Talent Poaching Spree
Plus, 🎬 Turn Raw Talking Videos into Scroll-Stopping Shorts (with Brandthetics), AI Goes to School: 400,000 Teachers to Be Trained via New National AI Academy, and more!
Hello there! Ready to dive into another upgrading, Mind-boggling, and Value-filled Shift?
Today we have:
📉 Apple’s AI Brain Drain Deepens as Meta Snaps Up Top Talent
🎬 Turn Raw Talking Videos into Scroll-Stopping Shorts (with Brandthetics)
🎓 AI Goes to School: 400,000 Teachers to Be Trained via New National AI Academy
🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss
📉 Apple’s AI Brain Drain Deepens as Meta Snaps Up Top Talent
Apple just lost Ruoming Pang, the exec behind Apple Intelligence, to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. Meanwhile, Meta is aggressively hiring top AI minds from Apple, OpenAI, and Anthropic to fuel its AGI ambitions.
The Shift:
1. Apple’s AI lead jumps ship, leaving Siri in limbo - Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s 100-person foundation model group, is now at Meta. His departure follows the earlier exit of his deputy and signals wider discontent with Apple’s AI strategy.
2. Meta offers millions, builds AGI dream team - Pang reportedly got a package in the tens of millions to join Superintelligence Labs. Meta also hired Yuanzhi Li from OpenAI and Anton Bakhtin from Anthropic. Their new unit is led by Alexandr Wang and aims directly at AGI.
3. Apple’s strategy feels reactive and uncertain - Many engineers from Pang’s team are now eyeing exits as well. Apple’s reliance on OpenAI has caused internal concern and creative friction.
Apple’s bleeding AI leadership at a time when it desperately needs clarity and control. Meta isn’t just poaching, it’s assembling an AGI powerhouse with speed and intent. If Apple can’t stabilize its AI future soon, it risks falling out of the intelligence race entirely.
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🎓 AI Goes to School: 400,000 Teachers to Be Trained via New National AI Academy
The American Federation of Teachers just launched a major AI initiative with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic to train 400,000 U.S. educators in responsible, effective AI use. From NYC to nationwide by 2030, this five-year mission could reshape how the next generation learns, teaches, and thinks with AI.
The Shift:
1. Nationwide AI training hub for 1 in 10 U.S. teachers - The National Academy for AI Instruction will train 400,000 educators by 2030. It begins with a flagship campus in NYC and will expand via workshops, online courses, and PD programs.
2. OpenAI leads with $10M support and early-access tools - OpenAI is providing $8M in funding and $2M in API credits, engineering, and tech support. Microsoft and Anthropic are also contributing resources and training access.
3. AI tools built for real classrooms, not theory - Teachers will get hands-on access to build and customize tools using API credits and tokens. Teachers will gain priority access to future education features and tools tailored for classrooms.
With 60% of educators already using AI weekly, this program turns scattered usage into strategic infrastructure. It ensures teachers, not algorithms, shape how AI enters the classroom. Long term, it could define the national playbook for AI in K–12 education.
🔨AI Tools for the Shift
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🎬 Videnly – Create and publish viral AI videos in just a few clicks. Perfect for content creators scaling on social.
📹 1of10 – AI tools made specifically for YouTubers. From ideation to editing—speed up your content pipeline.
🎞️ Short AI – Effortlessly make viral, faceless short-form videos. Built for growth on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
🚀Quick Shifts
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🛒 GenAI-powered shopping is booming this Prime Day, with AI-driven traffic surging 3,200% YoY. Consumers are using it for research, recommendations, deals, and lists.
🇫🇷 Mistral is reportedly raising up to $1B in equity from investors like Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, boosting its AI dominance. It's also seeking hundreds of millions in debt from French banks.
🤝 Replit is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its AI-powered dev platform with Azure services and launch on the Azure Marketplace, expanding access to non-coders, challenging Google Cloud’s grip, and fueling Replit’s explosive $100M ARR growth.
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