Former Zillow exec targets $1.3T market

The wealthiest companies tend to target the biggest markets. For example, NVIDIA skyrocketed nearly 200% higher in the last year with the $214B AI market’s tailwind.

That’s why investors are so excited about Pacaso.

Created by a former Zillow exec, Pacaso brings co-ownership to a $1.3 trillion real estate market. And by handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, they’ve made $110M+ in gross profit to date. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

No wonder the same VCs behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay also invested in Pacaso. And for just $2.90/share, you can join them as an early-stage Pacaso investor today.

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Today:

• Deep Utopia: What Happens When AI Ends Scarcity and Work?

• Meta Taps Midjourney to Sharpen AI Images in Your Feed

• Elon Musk Unveils ‘Macrohard’: An AI-Only Microsoft Rival

• Apple in Talks with Google to Power Siri with Gemini AI

• Meta Strikes $10B Deal to Run AI on Google Cloud

Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence, Deep Utopia, Human Purpose and Understanding Consciousness

In Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom explores a future shaped by superintelligence where disease, scarcity, and death are conquered. Human work becomes obsolete, meaning must be redefined, and AI alignment, governance, digital mind welfare, and cosmic integration become central challenges. 

With AI capable of solving complex problems and possibly becoming sentient, Bostrom urges us to tread carefully, preserve meaning, respect emerging minds, and consider our role in a larger cosmic landscape.

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Meta Taps Midjourney to Sharpen AI Images in Your Feed

Meta’s new AI boss, Alexandr Wang, says Meta will license Midjourney’s image-making software. The deal lets Meta add Midjourney’s sharper “aesthetic technology”—code that shapes look and style—to its own models, which now trail rivals. Wang, 28, joined Meta after its $14.3 billion Scale AI purchase. His Midjourney move is his first big step toward Mark Zuckerberg’s promise of future “superintelligence”, meaning AI that beats humans in many tasks across industries.

Why it matters

1. Signals a major platform choosing partnership over in-house R&D, showing that even giants must collaborate to stay competitive.
   

2. Accelerates the race for high-quality, safe image and video generation, likely raising user expectations and industry standards.
   

3. Highlights how talent shifts (Scale AI buyout, Wang’s hire) and IP concerns shape strategy, hinting at more licensing deals ahead.

Elon Musk Unveils ‘Macrohard’: An AI-Only Microsoft Rival

Elon Musk says his startup xAI is creating “Macrohard,” an AI-only venture meant to copy everything a software giant like Microsoft does, from coding to management, without human workers or hardware factories. Musk argues that because firms such as Microsoft sell digital products, an AI system can replicate their whole business. xAI has filed a legal name filing (trademark) and is hiring, signaling Musk’s push to merge AI with large-scale business operations rapidly.

Why it matters

1. Shows AI could run every part of a software company, not just assist, shaking up office jobs worldwide.
   

2. Puts pressure on Microsoft and other big tech names to respond, speeding up the race for smarter, cheaper AI tools.
   

3. Opens debate on rules for self-running companies, legal protections, and job impact, steering future laws and ethics around AI.

Apple in Talks with Google to Power Siri with Gemini AI

Apple is negotiating with Google to embed a custom Gemini AI model inside a rebuilt Siri slated for 2026 iPhones. The partnership would let Apple outsource generative AI while keeping data on its own servers. Talks remain early, but Google has begun training a tailor-made model for Apple. The move signals Apple’s readiness to license outside AI talent after lagging rivals, aiming to make Siri smarter, more conversational, and cloud-enhanced.

Why it matters

1. Even giants need partners—Apple tapping Google shows no single company can master every AI skill alone.
   

2. A smarter Siri will raise everyday expectations for voice helpers, pushing the whole field to innovate faster.
   

Hosting Google’s model on Apple servers mixes outside brains with in-house privacy, offering a new playbook for safe, high-power AI deployments.

🧠RESEARCH

Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model

Intern-S1 is a new open-source multimodal model built for science. With 241 billion parameters and training on 2.5 trillion science tokens, it uses reinforcement learning to master over 1,000 tasks. It outperforms other open models in reasoning and even beats top closed models in fields like chemistry and materials science.

Mobile-Agent-v3: Foundamental Agents for GUI Automation

Mobile-Agent-v3 and GUI-Owl are open-source agents built to control apps and software through their visual interfaces. Trained in massive virtual environments across Android, Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu, they learn to plan, reason, and act without manual labeling. Mobile-Agent-v

LiveMCP-101: Stress Testing and Diagnosing MCP-enabled Agents on Challenging Queries

LiveMCP-101 is a new benchmark that tests how well AI agents use multiple tools in real-world tasks. It includes 101 complex queries requiring search, file handling, math, and data analysis. Results show top models still fail over 40% of the time, exposing weaknesses in tool coordination and efficiency.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

Call Annie - AI-powered virtual assistant app that offers real-time video conversations with a digital avatar named Annie. 

ReRoom AI - Transform living spaces through photorealistic visualizations. 

Freepik Pikaso - AI-powered art generation tool that transforms simple sketches and text prompts into detailed, high-quality images. 

Lexica - AI-powered platform that combines a search engine and art gallery for Stable Diffusion-generated images. 

PixVerse - AI-powered video creation platform that transforms text prompts and images into dynamic, high-quality videos.

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🗞️MORE NEWS

• Meta has signed a $10 billion, six-year deal to use Google’s cloud services, mainly for artificial intelligence. This marks a shift from Meta’s usual reliance on Amazon and Microsoft for cloud infrastructure.

• OpenAI is demanding Meta hand over documents about possible coordination with Elon Musk’s $97B bid to buy OpenAI. The filing suggests Musk and Zuckerberg discussed funding plans. Meta denies involvement and resists the subpoena.

• Nvidia has told suppliers, including Amkor and Samsung, to halt production of its H20 AI chip for China. This follows Chinese government concerns over data risks tied to the chip’s use by local tech firms.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed a potential £2 billion deal with UK tech minister Peter Kyle to give all UK residents access to ChatGPT Plus. Though not pursued, it reflects growing UK–OpenAI collaboration.

• Former OpenAI researcher Miles Brundage said a $10,000 monthly universal basic income could become feasible with AI-driven economic growth. He urged policymakers to think beyond current pilot programs, which offer far smaller amounts.

• OpenAI is opening its first India office in New Delhi and launching a local team to strengthen partnerships and expand AI access. It also introduced a ₹399/month ChatGPT Go plan to attract Indian users in a price-sensitive market.

• Elon Musk tried to recruit Mark Zuckerberg to join his $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, according to court filings. The offer aimed to take over the nonprofit behind ChatGPT, but was ultimately rejected.

• Apple is rolling out new tools for enterprises to control AI use, including configuring access to ChatGPT for Enterprise. IT admins can enable or block external AI providers, not just OpenAI, offering flexible integration.