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Book Reveals Altman Firing Drama
PLUS: Isomorphic Labs Raises $600 Million, OpenAI To Release Downloadable Model and more.

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Book Reveals Altman Firing Drama
OpenAI Raises $40B For AGI
Runway Launches Gen-4 Video AI
Isomorphic Labs Raises $600 Million
OpenAI To Release Downloadable Model
The TRUTH About Sam Altman's Firing; Peter Thiel, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Effective Altruism
A new book uncovers the behind-the-scenes drama of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI in 2023. It traces the roots to Peter Thiel, a powerful tech figure, who warned Altman about the growing influence of AI safety advocates within OpenAI.
A secretive board, some tied to that movement, ousted Altman without clear reasons. But staff revolted, forcing his return. The story is full of power plays, mistrust, and shifting loyalties.
OpenAI has secured $40 billion in new funding at a $300 billion valuation. This investment, led by SoftBank, will support the expansion of AI research, infrastructure, and tools for the 500 million weekly users of ChatGPT. The goal is to create advanced AI that helps people learn, create, and solve complex problems—ultimately moving toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits everyone.
Why it matters
Massive investment fuels faster AI advancement.
Partnership with SoftBank brings global scaling expertise.
Signals growing focus on building safe, human-centered AGI.
Runway has launched Gen-4, its most advanced AI for creating consistent, controllable media. It can generate characters, objects, and environments across scenes with just one reference image—maintaining style, motion, and cinematic details. Gen-4 also simulates real-world physics, supports multiple angles and perspectives, and creates production-ready video. It's designed for filmmakers, creators, and brands who want fast, flexible, and high-quality media—without extra training or fine-tuning.
Why it matter
Raises the bar for AI-generated video realism and coherence.
Enables new creative workflows, from film to marketing, with minimal input.
Signals growing momentum toward general-purpose visual AI models.
Isomorphic Labs has raised $600 million in its first external funding round to boost its AI-driven drug design engine and push drug candidates into clinical trials. Founded by Demis Hassabis, the company uses cutting-edge AI models—like AlphaFold 3—to accelerate drug discovery. With backing from Thrive Capital, GV, and Alphabet, Isomorphic Labs aims to revolutionize how treatments are developed for diseases across multiple therapeutic areas.
Why it matters
Demonstrates AI’s real-world impact in healthcare and biotech.
Showcases collaboration between top AI research (DeepMind) and life sciences.
Advances the use of AI models beyond data into physical-world applications like drug development.
🧠RESEARCH
AdaptiVocab is a method that speeds up language models in specialized fields by tweaking their vocabulary. It swaps general words for domain-specific word groups, cutting down the number of steps needed. This saves over 25% in processing without hurting performance, and it works with any model or tokenizer.
This paper explores how better data design can boost reinforcement learning from human feedback. It tackles common issues like reward hacking and dull responses by using smarter reward systems and prompt selection. The study shows that early focus on math and code tasks improves results, making training more effective and reliable.
ReaRec is a new method for improving recommendation systems by adding reasoning steps during prediction. Instead of just using the last user action, ReaRec simulates how preferences evolve over time. Tested on real-world data, it boosts accuracy by 30–50%, especially for niche items, and works with various recommendation models.
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Kubee - AI tool designed to enable users to create, interact, and customize their own digital avatars.
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Cursor AI - Cutting-edge technology company that has revolutionized the way software developers write and manage code.
📲SOCIAL MEDIA
BMW x Figure Update
This isn't a test environment—it's real production operations
Real-world robots are advancing our Helix AI and strengthening our end-to-end autonomy to deploy millions of robots
— Figure (@Figure_robot)
2:00 PM • Mar 31, 2025
🗞️MORE NEWS
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced it will release a downloadable AI model this summer, following pressure from rivals. The move aims for transparency, lower costs, and safer customization while managing potential misuse.
Luma AI has introduced Camera Motion Concepts—a way to teach its Ray2 video model custom camera moves from just one or a few examples. These can be combined using plain language for creative, high-quality video control without degrading model performance.
Amazon has launched Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser and complete simple online tasks. Designed for developers and future Alexa+ features, it aims to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic's agents.
Google has made its new Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model free to use with some limits. It uses step-by-step reasoning, beats rivals in tests, and will soon expand to the mobile app and live coding tools.
Google Slides now features Imagen 3, its newest image generator, along with design tools like editable templates, stock image access, proportional scaling, and prebuilt content blocks—making it easier to create polished, engaging presentations.
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