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AI News: Meta’s newly formed Applied AI team, just three months old, is facing a severe internal crisis. The organization of about 6,500 engineers and product managers erupted in a public conflict during an internal livestream this week — someone barged in and, using profanity-laced rants, demanded attendees relay a message to a Meta AI executive, causing the situation to spiral out of control. The incident reflects deeper collective anger…

AI News Flash: The IPO market is warming up, but the leading players are no longer the legendary FAANG. A new acronym ‘MANGOS’ is taking over, including Meta (or Microsoft in some accounts), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Notably, up to half of these six companies plan to go public in the same time window, creating a rare concentrated listing wave.

AI News Flash: French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly in early talks with investors to raise about 3 billion euros (approximately $3.5 billion). Post-round, Mistral’s valuation would reach approximately 20 billion euros ($23.15 billion), nearly double its 11.7 billion euro valuation from the September C-round last year. Bloomberg cited anonymous sources…

AI news flash: Prometheus, a physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily (Google’s life sciences unit) co-founder Vik Bajaj, closes $12B funding round at $41B valuation, with backing from Bezos, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

AI news brief: Indian AI startup Avataar AI has launched a video generation model called Varya, built specifically for Indian cultural context — recognizing local festivals, clothing, food, and architecture. Avataar AI is one of twelve startups selected under the Indian government’s ‘India AI Mission,’ a roughly $1.2 billion program that trades subsidized GPU compute for open model releases.

AI news flash: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently gave an interview to Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, revealing a very rare management structure: he currently has only one direct report, his Chief of Staff, and all other members of Anthropic’s executive team report to his sister, co-founder and President Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations.

AI news brief: Opendoor is a San Francisco-based online homebuying platform that entered India in 2024, setting up offices in Chennai and Bangalore with a headcount that peaked at 250, mainly handling manual workflows across fragmented systems. Less than two years later, CEO Kaz Nejatian announced the India exit, citing a move to bring operations back closer to US customers and a shift toward smaller, AI-native teams. The move has sparked a heated debate in Silicon Valley, since India is a…

AI news flash: Meta announces partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to build a 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking Meta’s first AI infrastructure investment in India. The facility will run on renewable energy, cooled by desalinated seawater, with all energy and water costs fully covered by Meta. The data center is expected to be completed within two years and gradually scale capacity, serving not only the Indian market but also integrating into Meta’s global AI computing network.

AI news flash: Google announced Monday it’s cutting Google AI Plus’s monthly price from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the plan’s cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with the update rolling out to existing subscribers over the coming days. Launched this January, Google AI Plus is positioned as the cheapest paid AI subscription plan in the US market, aimed mainly at…

AI News Flash: Apple kicked off WWDC 2026 at its Cupertino campus under two unusual circumstances — CEO Tim Cook announced he’ll hand the reins to hardware engineering SVP John Ternus on September 1, making this his last WWDC, and expectations were sky-high for Apple to finally catch up on AI after two rough years for Siri and core software…