Tue. 06/10 – Zuck’s Big AI Ambitions
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Zuckerberg’s big ambitions for AI seem to be coming into focus. OpenAI is actively starting to play the field when it comes to compute. More signs AI is kneecapping web traffic. And what do we think? Is liquid glass a good design choice, or a cul-de-sac for Apple?
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- Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ (NYTimes)
- Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta (Bloomberg)
- Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say (Reuters)
- Waymo halts service in downtown Los Angeles amid ICE protests (LA Times)
- News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools (WSJ)
- Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon (9to5Mac)
- ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Hard to Read’: Designers React to Apple’s Liquid Glass Update (Wired)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:08.6 | Zuckerberg's big ambitions for AI seem to be coming into focus. Open AI is actively starting to play the field when it comes to compute. |
| 0:16.6 | More signs AI is kneecapping web traffic. And what do we think? Is liquid glass a good design choice or maybe a design cul-de-sac for Apple? |
| 0:25.9 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, the contours of several recent headlines are coming together in a recognizable shape all |
| 0:38.2 | a sudden. Sources tell the New York Times that META plans to build an AI lab dedicated to pursuing |
| 0:44.1 | superintelligence led by Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang. Quote, Meta has tapped Alexander Wang |
| 0:52.3 | 28, the founder and chief executive of the AI startup |
| 0:54.8 | scale AI to join the new lab, the people said, and has been in talks to invest billions |
| 0:59.3 | of dollars in his company as part of a deal that would also bring other scale AI employees |
| 1:03.7 | to the company. |
| 1:05.1 | Meta has offered seven to nine-figure compensation packages to dozens of researchers from |
| 1:09.4 | leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Google, |
| 1:12.2 | with some agreeing to join, according to the people. The new lab is part of a larger reorganization |
| 1:16.8 | of Meta's AI efforts, the people said, the company which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, |
| 1:20.8 | has recently grappled with internal management struggles over the technology, as well as employee churn, |
| 1:26.1 | and several product releases that fell flat, two of the |
| 1:28.4 | people said. More recently, Meta's AI division has lost employees to rival companies, |
| 1:33.6 | according to two people familiar with the matter. The departures were the result of a grueling |
| 1:37.9 | pace of product development in fighting among team leaders and a tight labor market. In April, |
| 1:46.3 | CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two new versions of META's Lama AI models, which he claimed performed equal or better than comparable |
| 1:51.7 | models from OpenAI and Google, according to testing benchmarks compiled by META. |
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