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🤖 AI Brief

🎯 Meta’s $1.25B OpenAI talent push rebuffed; Germany launches €631B AI drive; OpenAI outage hits paid users.

🔸 Meta offered up to $1.25 billion to recruit OpenAI talent and attempted to acquire Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI); both efforts were rebuffed.

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🔸 Over 60 German firms and Chancellor Merz launched a €631B "Made for Germany" initiative focused on AI, industrial data, and tech innovation, including NVIDIA $NVDA partnerships.

🔸 WeRide and Lenovo unveiled HPC 3.0, a cost-reducing, Nvidia Thor-powered platform for L4 autonomous vehicles, debuting in WeRide’s Robotaxi GXR.
🔸 Pinterest was upgraded to Overweight by Morgan Stanley, citing improved ad efficiency and AI-driven product innovation.

🔸 UK is likely to withdraw its Apple $AAPL iCloud backdoor demand after U.S. pressure, aiming to maintain digital trade and AI regulatory cooperation.
🔸 Tesla $TSLA’s robotaxi launch in Austin led to analyst price target hikes, citing scalable autonomous tech and SaaS economics.

🔸 OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent rollout for paid users triggered a major outage, highlighting reliability issues amid 500M weekly active users.
🔸 Microsoft $MSFT issued urgent patches for a critical SharePoint zero-day (CVE-2025-53770) exploited globally; on-premises installations remain at risk.