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Meta reassigned 7,000 workers to AI teams two days before laying off 8,000
Cursor's new model hits frontier benchmarks for under $1 per task
Anthropic is raising $30B at a $900B valuation, up 3x in three months
Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic's pre-training team
Google shipped Gemini Spark, agentic Search, Ask YouTube, and smart glasses all in one keynote
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Investors see ANOTHER return from Masterworks (!!!!)
That’s 6 sales in 7 months. 29 all time. And the performance?
16.5%, 17.6%, and 17.8%, net annualized returns on sold works held longer than one year (See all 29 at Masterworks.com)
It’s not from stocks, private equity, or real estate… it’s from contemporary and post war art. Crazy, right?
With Masterworks, you don’t need to be a BILLIONAIRE to invest in multi-million dollar art anymore.
Historically, the segment overall has had attractive appreciation and low correlation to stocks.*
Masterworks targets works featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso, identifying what they believe to have significant long-term appreciation potential, not just at the artist level but at the level of individual artworks.
As one of the largest players in the art market, with $1.3 billion invested over 500 artworks, they pass critical advantages through to their 70,000+ members to add art to their portfolios strategically.
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GOOGLE JUST SHIPPED THEIR WHOLE 2026 ROADMAP
Google's annual developer conference dropped a fullllll slate of AI updates this week. Here's what you should know:
Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the default model across most Google products. It's four times faster than other frontier models and Google is already processing three trillion tokens a day with it internally. Coding and agent tasks are where it's focused.
Gemini Spark is a 24/7 personal AI agent that works in the background even when your laptop is closed. It manages emails, hunts subscriptions, and takes action on your behalf without being prompted. Think less "chatbot" and more "always-on assistant."
Search is going agentic too. You can now ask complex questions and have Search update you when the answer changes over time. It can also build custom visuals to explain complex problems directly in the results page.
Ask YouTube lets you query the entire platform conversationally and get sent directly to the relevant moment in the right video. No more scrubbing.
On the hardware side, Project Aura smart glasses with Samsung got a first look, with live translation and AR built in.
OUR TAKE
Google has more distribution than any AI company on the planet and they just started using it aggressively.
Gemini Spark running 24/7 in the background is the more interesting announcement than it sounds. It’s less “productivity” and more: new layer between you and your digital life.
For builders, the agentic Search and Workspace integrations are worth paying close attention to. Google is eating workflows that third party tools currently own.
QUICK HITS
Meta reassigned 7,000 workers to AI teams two days before laying off 8,000: The company is reorganizing into four new AI-focused orgs with fewer managers and leaner structures. Zuckerberg is spending up to $135 billion on AI this year and the headcount is being reshaped around that bet.
Cursor's new coding model matches Claude and GPT-5.5 for under $1 per task: Composer 2.5 hits near-frontier benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, and their next model is training on 10x more compute. Frontier performance is getting cheap fast.
Anthropic is raising $30B at a $900B valuation: That's nearly 3x their valuation from just three months ago, with annualised revenue expected to hit $45B soon. Sequoia, Dragoneer, and Greenoaks are all in.
Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic: The OpenAI co-founder and guy who coined "vibe coding" is joining the pre-training team to use Claude to accelerate frontier LLM research. He'll be leading a team under Nick Joseph focused on AI-assisted pre-training. Karpathy called the next few years "especially formative" for LLMs. Anthropic is having a very good month.
Your ads ran overnight. Nobody was watching. Except Viktor.
One brand built 30+ landing pages through Viktor without a single developer.
Each page mapped to a specific ad group. All deployed within hours. Viktor wrote the code and shipped every one from a Slack message.
That same team has Viktor monitoring ad accounts across the portfolio and posting performance briefs before the day starts. One colleague. Always on. Across every account.
YOU DON’T NEED AN AD BUDGET ANYMORE
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Why build this? Ad creative is one of the biggest bottlenecks for small teams. You either pay an agency $30K and wait weeks, or you DIY two formats and run them into the ground. Most founders never actually test different angles because building that volume is too expensive and too slow. Higgsfield Marketing Studio changes that math. One product link, one session, nine distinct formats ready to test against each other.
Steps:
Go to higgsfield.ai and open Marketing Studio
Paste your product link directly into the tool. It pulls images and product details automatically
Upload your face or build a custom avatar inside the tool
Hit generate. CineDance 2.0 builds out all nine format variations
Review your outputs: UGC, tutorial, unboxing, hyper motion, product review, TV spot, wildcard, and two virtual try-on formats
Pick your best performers and push them live across placements
What you walk away with: Nine format-specific ad creatives with the same face locked across every single output. Not the same video with a filter swap. Each one is structured and paced for its placement. Enough creative to run a real testing spread in the time it used to take just to write a brief.
Full tutorial:
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You review, approve, and it goes live. That's it.
What makes it actually interesting is the feedback loop. Last week's results automatically feed into next week's strategy, so it's not just generating ads, it's learning what works and adjusting on its own.
78% average ad approval rate across 100+ brands, which suggests the output isn't garbage.
