July 25, 2025

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Meta Platforms Inc. has accelerated its battle for AI supremacy by offering multimillion-dollar signing bonuses and equity stakes to lure leading researchers from rivals like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic. This recruitment thrust comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reorients the company around “superintelligence” after its metaverse pivot stumbled.

Elite roster: Over 40% of recent hires hail from OpenAI; 20% from DeepMind.

High stakes: Packages reportedly top $100 million, fueling a wider arms race that elicited public jabs from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and scrutiny from Google’s Sundar Pichai.

Meta’s strategy underscores the belief that securing top talent is as critical as chip and data-center investments in the next AI wave.

OpenAI Plans ChatGPT-5 Rollout in August

OpenAI confirms August launch for ChatGPT-5, promising significant upgrades in intelligence, speed and versatility to U.S. users. CEO Sam Altman says early tests left him “blown away,” marking the company’s most ambitious AI release yet.

Key features include:

Unified multimodal interface: images, code, data analysis and web agent all in one flow

Advanced reasoning & coding: more stable outputs for complex tasks

Expanded memory: larger context window for lengthy legal, academic and programming work

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Anthropic’s Claude Code Halves Dev Time, Draws Flak Over New Usage Caps

Anthropic says its Claude Code AI assistant has cut routine development time by up to 50%, accelerating prototyping, debugging and legacy refactor projects across its engineering, research and even nontechnical teams. An enterprise analytics dashboard launched alongside the tool has driven a 300% spike in external adoption, tracking metrics like code acceptance rates and team spending.

But users are pushing back. In mid‐July, Anthropic quietly tightened usage limits—even on its $200/month Max plan—prompting heavy‐workflow teams to complain on GitHub and X about sudden caps that disrupt mission‐critical projects. As competitors ramp up AI–driven coding help, companies now weigh powerful productivity gains against the need for transparent service policies.

Altman Warns ChatGPT Therapy Chats Lack Legal Privilege

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on the Theo Von podcast that therapy-style conversations with ChatGPT lack the same legal confidentiality as those with licensed professionals. Unlike doctor-patient or attorney-client privilege, nothing prevents a court from compelling OpenAI to turn over user chats.

Key points:

Deleted conversations are permanently purged after 30 days unless held for legal or security reasons.

OpenAI staff can access live chats for model tuning and misuse monitoring.

Altman urged lawmakers and the industry to urgently establish privacy safeguards for AI conversations as more users lean on ChatGPT for personal advice.

Samsung Explores OpenAI and Perplexity Tie-Up for Galaxy S26

Samsung Electronics is in advanced talks with OpenAI and Perplexity AI to preload multiple AI assistants on its upcoming Galaxy S26 series, Bloomberg reports. The move aims to loosen the company’s exclusive reliance on Google’s Gemini model, offering U.S. consumers broader generative-AI choices out of the box.

• Diversification push: President Choi Won-Joon says Samsung wants to move “beyond Google” by integrating Perplexity’s AI assistant and potentially OpenAI’s services.

• Strategic timing: The deal follows Samsung’s near-final investment in Perplexity and arrives as Apple readies its first foldable iPhone.

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Meta Lures Top AI Talent with $100M+ Deals, Sparks Industry-Wide Arms Race