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Today’s trending AI news stories

OpenAI Locks 4.5 GW Oracle Buildout, Denies Robinhood Token Ties

OpenAI is scaling compute and tightening control over its brand and data pipelines. It has secured 4.5 GW of dedicated capability from Oracle to power its Stargate AI systems, a part of a $30B/yr cloud commitment. Oracle will expand hyperscale infrastructure in Texas, Michigan, and Wyoming, doubling the Abilene site’s footprint to 2 GW. The deployment ranks amongst the most important AI-dedicated compute expansions globally, underscoring the hardware demands of next-gen foundation models.

Stargate data center at Abilene, Texas | Image: w.media

Concurrently, OpenAI disavowed “OpenAI tokens” launched on Robinhood, calling them unaffiliated and unauthorized. The tokens, issued via an SPV (special purpose vehicle), falsely imply equity access. OpenAI clarified no shares were sold or transferable without consent.

In contrast, OpenAI is backing the ChatGPT Data Collective with Vana, where users upload chat logs, earn $GPT tokens, and vote on data usage, signaling support for on-chain data governance amidst intensifying AI–web traffic tensions. Read more.

AI Agents hit a brand new gear, running end-to-end and full stack with no humans needed

A brand new wave of agentic tools dropped this week, replacing manual workflows with autonomous AI execution.

HeyGen’s Video Agent handles full video production from a sentence or file, writing scripts, generating footage, casting virtual actors, and editing with pro-level timing. Touted as the primary true “Creative Operating System,” it targets ad creators, product teams, and content marketers on the lookout for speed at scale.

Today we’re introducing you to the long run of video.

The world’s first Creative Operating System, we call it the HeyGen Video Agent.

Upload a doc, some footage, and even only a sentence.

It analyzes your input.

Finds the story.

Writes the script with taste.

Selects the shots

— Joshua Xu (@joshua_xu_)
3:05 pm • Jun 26, 2025

Replit’s upgraded Dev Agent, ‘Dynamic Intelligence,’ adds long-range reasoning, high-context understanding, live web search, and multi-step autonomy, writing APIs, debugging, and refactoring with minimal input.

🚀 Introducing Dynamic Intelligence for Replit Agent

We’re unlocking next-level problem solving with:
🧠 Prolonged Pondering
⚡️ High Power Model
🌐 Web Search

Now the Agent thinks deeper, reasons higher, and surfs the online to get you complete solutions.

This permits Agent

— Replit ⠕ (@Replit)
5:26 PM • Jul 2, 2025

Genspark has launched AI Docs, completing its trio of agentic tools alongside AI Slides and Sheets. It robotically generates wealthy, markdown-ready documents from easy prompts, handling structure, formatting, and flow with no templates or manual input.

🚀 BIG NEWS: Introducing Genspark AI Docs — the world’s first full-agentic AI document creator with native support for each wealthy text AND markdown!

With AI Slides, AI Sheets, and now AI Docs, our classic productivity trio for the AI era is finally complete! 🎉

Simply tell

— Genspark (@genspark_ai)
12:50 PM • Jul 2, 2025

And Shortcut, from Fundamental, tackles complex Excel workflows, solving championship-grade tasks 10x faster than human pros. In trials, it solved Excel World Championship Cases with over 80% accuracy in under 10 minutes, operating with zero formulas or macros.

Introducing Shortcut — the primary superhuman Excel agent.

Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel.

It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That is 10x faster than humans.

Our early preview is live. Just comment for an invitation code.

– Nico (@nicochristie)
4:00 PM • Jul 2, 2025

Meta and SSI Lock Horns in Superintelligence Race

Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) just got a significant shake-up. Co-founder Daniel Gross has exited the corporate and is now leading Meta’s latest superintelligence division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), alongside Nat Friedman and ex-Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang. This comes after Meta’s failed try and buy SSI outright for a reported $32 billion.

Daniel Gross / Nat Friedman | Image: The Information

With Gross out, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever now runs SSI as CEO while continuing to guide its technical direction. Sutskever reiterated SSI’s singular mission: to construct secure superintelligence without dilution from business product demands. Still, Gross’s departure raises questions on internal dynamics and timing, especially if SSI is nearing a significant technical inflection point.

I sent the next message to our team and investors:
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As you recognize, Daniel Gross’s time with us has been winding down, and as of June 29 he’s officially now not an element of SSI. We’re grateful for his early contributions to the corporate and want him well in his next

– Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut)
3:58 PM • Jul 3, 2025

Now, with each Meta and SSI racing toward superintelligence, one with a centralized business engine, the opposite with a singular research mandate, the competition between their labs frames a defining chapter within the AI industry’s next wave. Read more.