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What's Up in AI
September 05, 2025
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Today’s stories zoom out to the boardrooms and balance sheets, where billions are being thrown around to lock in AI’s future. Tech giants are cozying up to Trump with trillion-dollar promises, Stripe is betting on a stablecoin backbone for AI payments,and OpenAI is coming straight for LinkedIn’s turf.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Trump + Tech Giants + White House
🧠 Strip to Release a New Blockchain
📈 OpenAI Vs Linkedin
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
At a White House dinner, tech CEOs pledged massive U.S. AI infrastructure spending.
Mark Zuckerberg committed $600B through 2028 for Meta’s domestic data centers.
Tim Cook announced $100B in new U.S. manufacturing, boosting Apple’s total pledge to $600B.
Trump framed Apple’s pledge as a way to dodge future semiconductor tariffs.
The dinner signals how AI has become a centerpiece of U.S. industrial policy.
Stripe is backing Tempo, a new firm building a blockchain for stablecoin payments.
Design partners include OpenAI, Visa, and Deutsche Bank, hinting at wide adoption.
The system targets high-volume transactions like remittances and AI agent payments.
Matt Huang, Paradigm’s co-founder, will lead Tempo as CEO.
With Stripe + VC backing, Tempo could become a core payments rail for AI economies.
OpenAI announced the Jobs Platform, an AI-powered hiring marketplace.
Launching by mid-2026, it will connect job seekers with AI-ready employers.
Includes a track to help local governments + SMBs hire AI talent.
The OpenAI Academy will certify workers via ChatGPT’s “Study Mode.”
Pits OpenAI directly against partner Microsoft’s LinkedIn, shaking up hiring.
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3-THINGS IN TREND
A Reddit user tried Google’s “Nano-Banana” to clean up visuals for a document and the results are impressive.
Frustrated Reddit posts highlight how ChatGPT auto-sends some users to hotlines.
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared new data that shows AI progress is way ahead of expectations.
2-USEFUL LINKS
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
Nvidia just unveiled the Jetson AGX Thor, a compact “robot brain” that can run generative AI models and help robots navigate the real world. Powered by Blackwell GPUs and priced at $3,499, it lets developers build advanced robots for roughly the cost of a fully-loaded MacBook Pro. With clients like Amazon, Meta, and Boston Dynamics already onboard, Nvidia is staking its claim in the growing robotics market.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
💬 Mistral Expands Le Chat
Le Chat gets 20+ new enterprise connectors plus “Memories” for personalization and persistent context.
🏛️ Microsoft + U.S. GSA
Microsoft will provide the federal government free Copilot and AI services for up to 12 months.
🔬 OpenAI for Science
OpenAI launched an initiative to build AI platforms that accelerate scientific discovery.
🌍 Apertus Open-Source LLM
Swiss researchers unveiled Apertus, a multilingual model trained on 1,000+ languages.
📦 Meituan’s First Open Model
Meituan released LongCat-Flash-Chat, rivaling DeepSeek V3, Qwen 3, and Kimi K2.
Funding 💰️
AI agent startup Sierra nears $350 million round at $10 billion valuation
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