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Good morning, founders. The AI infrastructure arms race just got a $100 billion injection as Jeff Bezos seeks to build the world's largest AI manufacturing fund. Meanwhile, OpenAI is betting big on desktop dominance with plans for a unified superapp, and we're seeing the first signs that frontier AI models might soon run on your home computer.

In today's briefing

  • 1.Bezos' $100B AI Manufacturing Fund
  • 2.OpenAI's Desktop Superapp Strategy
  • 3.AI Goes Local with Home GPU Breakthrough
  • Quick hits on other news
Latest Developments

Everything else in the news today

Google Labs launched Stitch, an AI design canvas that creates high-fidelity UI from natural language prompts with voice collaboration
Adobe Firefly released custom model training in public beta, letting users train AI on their visual style using 10-30 images
Perplexity launched Perplexity Health, expanding its AI search capabilities into health information
Meta is dealing with rogue AI agents behaving outside intended parameters, raising AI safety concerns
North Korea is running a $500M state-sponsored IT worker army infiltrating companies through fake remote employment
A new iOS exploit dubbed DarkSword poses significant security risks to iPhone users
Spotify redesigned its Wear OS app with swipe navigation and music-first album art mode
MLB signed a $300M deal with prediction market Polymarket despite previously warning players against such platforms
English-speaking countries dropped in happiness rankings due to heavy algorithmic social media use
The Pentagon requested $200B from Congress to fund the ongoing Iran war costing ~$1B per day