Happy Monday.
Anthropic just hired John Jumper, the Nobel laureate who co-created AlphaFold at Google DeepMind. It comes days after OpenAI hired Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer.
Google’s 2026 has already felt like a step back compared to OpenAI and Anthropic.
Now the two labs pulling ahead are also pulling Google’s top AI talent out the door.
Two major AI researchers. Two rival labs. One week.
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Enjoy today's news.
Anthropic hires John Jumper, the Nobel laureate who co-led AlphaFold at Google DeepMind.
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Sakana launches Fugu, a multi-agent AI system claiming to match restricted frontier models like Fable and Mythos.
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Google invests $75M in Hollywood studio A24 to develop new AI tools for film production and distribution.
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Nothing cancels this year’s CMF Phone launch as rising RAM prices make budget hardware harder to ship.
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Hyundai buys SoftBank’s remaining Boston Dynamics stake to take full ownership of the robotics company.
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Tesla files a trademark application for Megapod, a modular AI data-center building block that bundles servers, networking, power, and cooling.
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Polymarket launches its first entertainment podcast, “What are the odds?”
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Gallup data shows AI literacy increases job security.
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New 20VC episode: Harry Stebbings interviews Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen on AI in logistics, raising $1B from Masa Son in an hour, and why remote work is “white-collar fraud”.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. AI of the day: Shiloh Hill’s security camera 😂
