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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Apple’s AI struggles somehow just got worse — and Mark Zuckerberg just added even more talent to Meta’s new Superintelligence unit.
With the chief of foundation models, Ruoming Pang, leaving for Meta and others rumored to follow, an AI brain drain may leave the tech giant scrambling even harder to catch up to its already distant competitors.
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In today’s AI rundown:
Meta poaches Apple’s AI leader
Teachers' union launches $23M AI academy
Prepare for meetings using Google Gemini Apps
Moonvalley debuts filmmaker-friendly video AI
4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
META
🍏 Meta poaches Apple’s AI leader
Image source: Flux Kontext / The Rundown — original image via Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
The Rundown: Meta poached Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of foundation AI models, with a reported offer worth tens of millions — alongside other new additions to its new Superintelligence unit, including OpenAI’s Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic’s Anton Bakhtin.
The details:
Pang led Apple’s 100-person foundation models group, shaping the AI behind Apple Intelligence and next-gen Siri features.
Meta’s offer reportedly included a compensation package in the “tens of millions,” joining the Superintelligence division led by Alexandr Wang.
The Apple departure follows internal tensions after leadership explored replacing in-house AI models with options from OpenAI or Anthropic.
Pang is not alone, with Bloomberg reporting that several engineers from Apple's foundation models group plan to exit for Meta or other competitors.
Why it matters: Apple Intelligence and the AI-infused Siri have been nothing short of a disaster, but Meta is still picking off Apple talent — and leaving the tech giant even further away from any sort of internal turnaround. Meta’s poaching may be the headline, but the real story is an Apple AI brain drain coming to its lowest point.
TOGETHER WITH HUBSPOT
⛏️ The AI gold rush: Are you in or out?
The Rundown: HubSpot’s “AI For Business Builders” free guide shows you how to join the savvy entrepreneurs quietly leveraging artificial intelligence for real business growth — with no P.H.D. needed.
This no-BS guide cuts through the hype, giving you:
A jargon-free breakdown of large language models (the engine behind AI's magic)
Concrete steps to leverage AI for immediate business growth
Real-world examples that turn "prompt engineering" from gibberish into a secret weapon
AI & EDUCATION
📚 Teachers' union launches $23M AI academy
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The Rundown: The American Federation of Teachers partnered with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to create a national AI training hub that will prepare 400,000 educators to integrate the technology into classrooms across the U.S.
The details:
The academy will offer workshops, online courses, and professional development, with its flagship campus in NYC, and plans to scale nationally.
OpenAI is committing $10M in funding and technical support, with Microsoft and Anthropic also contributing to cover training, resources, and AI tool access.
Teachers will gain access to priority support, API credits, and early education-focused AI features, with an emphasis on accessibility for high-needs districts.
Why it matters: With AI rapidly reshaping both the workforce and the classroom, this partnership helps better equip teachers for being on the frontlines of a tech revolution for the younger generation. The academy’s success could influence how AI is taught, governed, and trusted in education for years to come.
AI TRAINING
📅 Prepare for meetings using Google Gemini Apps
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Gemini AI to prepare for meetings — by analyzing your calendar, reviewing past emails, and researching participants to generate comprehensive briefings before every call.
Step-by-step:
Enable Gemini’s Google Workspace in settings to connect Gmail and Calendar
Ask: “Check my calendar for this week and show me all my meetings with participant details”
Review history: “Search my Gmail for previous conversations with [name] and summarize our past interactions in [timeframe]”
Get strategy: “Based on my upcoming meeting with [name], our previous chats, and current [company] context, suggest 5 questions I should prepare”
Pro Tip: After meetings, ask the AI to draft follow-up email templates based on the talking points you prepared and discussed.
PRESENTED BY WARP
🏆 Warp surpasses Claude Code on T-Bench
The Rundown: Warp just launched the first Agentic Development Environment, and it’s already surpassed Claude Code by over +20% on Terminal-Bench — also scoring 71% on SWE-bench Verified to make it the best-performing AI coding agent on the market.
Warp pulled ahead using:
Long-running commands — something no other tool can support
Agent multi-threading, running multiple agents in parallel all under your control
Deployment across the entire development lifecycle
Try Warp's SOTA agent for free — or for a limited time get 2.5x AI credits on paid plans.
MOONVALLEY
🎬 Moonvalley debuts filmmaker-friendly video AI
Image source: Moonvalley
The Rundown: Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, just released Marey — a filmmaker-focused AI video model trained exclusively on licensed content that gives directors granular control over scenes.
The details:
Marey is trained exclusively on licensed footage to avoid copyright issues that plague other AI startups, heavily sourced from indie filmmakers and agencies.
The model gives directors precise control over camera moves, character motion, backgrounds, and lighting, integrating directly into VFX workflows.
Pricing starts at $14.99 monthly for 100 credits, scaling up to $149.99 for 1,000 credits — with each five-second clip costing roughly $1-2 to render.
The company has raised over $100M to date and launched Marey alongside Asteria Film Co., an AI animation studio acquired by Moonvalley.
Why it matters: As Hollywood’s AI anxiety peaks, Marey is a test of whether ethical AI can win over creators. With a “clean” training set and a platform that acts as a precise director tool instead of a “luck” based video slot machine, Marey could help shift AI’s narrative around tinseltown from existential threat to creative partnership.
QUICK HITS
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🤏 SmolLM3 - Hugging Face’s small, multilingual, long-context reasoner
📰 Everything else in AI today
Meta invested $3.5B into Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica SA, giving the company a 3% stake in the world’s largest eyewear maker and expanding its AI glasses partnership.
Microsoft and Replit announced a new partnership to bring the startup’s agentic coding capabilities to Azure enterprise customers.
OpenAI ramped up its security with fingerprint scans, isolated computer environments, and military expertise hires over espionage concerns from Chinese rivals.
Google rolled out the ability to use first-frame image-to-video generations in Veo 3 with audio output, enhancing character consistency.
A U.S. diplomatic cable revealed that someone used AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Signal, targeting at least five people, including foreign ministers.
IBM unveiled its next-gen Power11 chips and servers, designed for simplified AI deployment in business operations.
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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team
