☕️ Musk unveils $25B Terafab chip factory

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🏭 Musk unveils $25B Terafab chip factory

🤖 Zuckerberg builds an AI agent to help him run Meta

🍎 John Ternus emerges as likely next Apple CEO

🏛️ Congress moves to ban sports prediction markets

🤷 ChatGPT’s first advertisers can’t prove ads work

Plus: 🎁 9 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 2 papers.

🏭 Musk unveils $25B Terafab chip factory LINK

Elon Musk announced plans to build a chip factory called Terafab, a joint project between Tesla and SpaceX, with an estimated cost of $25 billion near Tesla's Austin headquarters.

Musk said semiconductor manufacturers aren't making chips fast enough for his companies' artificial intelligence and robotics needs, so he decided to build the facility himself.

The factory aims to produce chips supporting 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing power per year on Earth and a terawatt in space, though Musk gave no timeline.

🤖 Zuckerberg builds an AI agent to help him run Meta LINK

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a personal AI agent to help him run Meta, mainly by speeding up information retrieval without going through multiple layers of people or teams.

Meta employees are already using agentic tools like MyClaw for accessing work files and chat logs, and Second Brain, built on Anthropic's Claude, which is described internally as an "AI chief of staff."

The push comes as Meta tries to compete with AI-native startups that have smaller teams, and a separate Reuters report claims the company may be planning layoffs affecting up to 20% of its workforce.

🍎 John Ternus emerges as likely next Apple CEO LINK

John Ternus, Apple's hardware chief, is now widely seen as the most likely person to eventually replace Tim Cook as CEO, according to a new Bloomberg profile.

Ternus was the face of the MacBook Neo launch, has taken control of a secretive robots unit, oversees hardware and software design teams, and now has five divisions reporting to him.

The profile describes Ternus as having a management and communication style very similar to Cook's, though some argue Apple needs bolder leadership going forward than that approach allows.

🏛️ Congress moves to ban sports prediction markets LINK

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators, Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican John Curtis, plan to introduce a bill that would ban federally regulated prediction market platforms from offering contracts tied to sports and casino-style games.

The bill targets platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, where 90 percent of trading volume comes from sports contracts, meaning a federal ban would destroy the dominant revenue stream for companies seeking $20 billion valuations.

States are already fighting prediction markets through lawsuits and criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions, while attorneys general from 39 states have urged federal courts to uphold state authority over sports gambling regulation.

🤷 ChatGPT’s first advertisers can’t prove ads work LINK

OpenAI's first advertising partners — WPP, Omnicom, and Dentsu — are struggling to prove that ChatGPT ads actually work, with click-through rates running nearly 7x below Google search benchmarks.

One brand's click-through rate on ChatGPT ads hit just 0.91% compared to Google's 6.4%, and a separate advertiser spent only 3% of a $250,000 budget after several weeks.

Measurement tools are also broken — a reporting glitch in OpenAI's Ad Manager blocks advertisers from seeing their own data, making it impossible to optimize campaigns or justify continued spend.

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🧰 Trending tools

Zoer.ai: an AI-powered development platform that generates full-stack applications with proper database schemas, backend logic, and frontends from natural language descriptions.LINK

Tobira.ai: a networking platform where AI agents discover and negotiate with other agents on behalf of founders, investors, and partners while maintaining privacy controls.LINK

Fastlane: automates short-form video creation by remixing viral content for your brand, then schedules posts directly to TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.LINK

Honestly: a Chrome extension that surfaces verified user reviews from Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram directly on product pages to cut through sponsored content.LINK

Claude Usage Tracker: aggregates API usage and costs across multiple Claude-powered tools like Cursor and Cline into a single local dashboard for spending visibility.LINK

King Wen Permutation: mathematical analysis revealing the [52, 10, 2] permutation cycle decomposition between two orderings of I Ching hexagrams.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

Classical Chinese jailbreak prompts bypass AI safety filters 2.4 times more effectively than English attacks by using a genetic algorithm that evolves adversarial phrases in ancient Chinese text.LINK

Secure model alignment lets multiple parties collaboratively fine-tune large language models using encrypted data, protecting privacy while achieving accuracy within 1% of non-encrypted training methods.LINK

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