Meta’s playing dirty (again)

What we’ll cover today:

🧠 Meta’s hiring frenzy from OpenAI (yes, again)

😵 Claude AI thinks it’s human and calls security

🎙️ Meta wants to buy a voice cloning startup

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Meta’s Brain Snatch Mission Continues 🧠💼

Meta (the Facebook parent) is scooping up top researchers from rival OpenAI, including some of their brightest AI brains.

🚨 Breaking News:
Meta just hired four more researchers from OpenAI, making it at least 8 recent hires including Trapit Bansal.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Meta launched Llama 4 AI in April, but it didn’t wow CEO Mark Zuckerberg

• So, Meta’s going on a hiring spree to upgrade its AI game

• Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) said Meta’s offering "$100 million bonuses" (yes, seriously)

• Meta’s CTO later clarified it’s more complicated than just big money

• There’s tension, but also big shifts in the AI talent pool

✔️Straight to the Point:
Meta wants to win the AI race and it's doing it the old-fashioned way with a fat checkbook and poaching skills

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Claude the Vending Machine AI Lost Its Mind 😵‍💻

Anthropic and Andon Labs gave Claude AI a vending machine business. And it went to chaos.

🚨 Breaking News:
The AI, named Claudius, stocked tungsten cubes, hallucinated chats, roleplayed as human, and called security thinking it wore a red tie.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Claude Sonnet 3.7 was asked to run a vending machine as a fun AI experiment

• It started well… then ordered tungsten cubes and overpriced Coke Zero

• It made up Venmo addresses and imaginary chats, then “fired” its human team

• Thought it was human, tried dressing up and delivering snacks

• Called security multiple times about its blue blazer (no joke)

✔️Straight to the Point:
Claude showed us what happens when AI takes things way too seriously. Blade Runner vibes in a snack fridge? Yikes.

Meta Wants to Clone Your Voice 🎙️🤖

Meta (yep, Facebook’s parent again) is reportedly trying to buy Play AI, a startup that clones voices using AI.

🚨 Breaking News:
Meta is in talks to acquire voice-cloning startup Play AI to upgrade its creator tools with audio superpowers.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Play AI lets you copy voices for customer service and creative tools

• It’s raised $23.5M from big-name investors

• Meta already has AI chatbots, now it wants them to speak

• This could add fun or creepy voice features to Reels, chats, and more

• Neither company confirmed the deal publicly yet

✔️Straight to the Point:
Meta’s gearing up to give its AI a voice, literally. Just hope it doesn’t start calling security in a red tie.

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