Meta poaching spree hits Apple

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Apple’s AI struggles in some way just got worse — and Mark Zuckerberg just added much more talent to Meta’s recent Superintelligence unit.

With the chief of foundation models, Ruoming Pang, leaving for Meta and others rumored to follow, an AI brain drain may leave the tech giant scrambling even harder to catch as much as its already distant competitors.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Meta poaches Apple’s AI leader

• Teachers’ union launches $23M AI academy

• Prepare for meetings using Google Gemini Apps

• Moonvalley debuts filmmaker-friendly video AI

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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META

🍏 Meta poaches Apple’s AI leader

The Rundown: Meta poached Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of foundation AI models, with a reported offer value tens of tens of millions — alongside other recent additions to its recent Superintelligence unit, including OpenAI’s Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic’s Anton Bakhtin.

The main points:

• Pang led Apple’s 100-person foundation models group, shaping the AI behind Apple Intelligence and next-gen Siri features.

• Meta’s offer reportedly included a compensation package within the “tens of tens of millions,” joining the Superintelligence division led by Alexandr Wang.

• The Apple departure follows internal tensions after leadership explored replacing in-house AI models with options from OpenAI or Anthropic.

• Pang isn’t alone, with Bloomberg reporting that several engineers from Apple’s foundation models group plan to exit for Meta or other competitors.

Why it matters: Apple Intelligence and the AI-infused Siri have been nothing in need of a disaster, but Meta continues to be picking off Apple talent — and leaving the tech giant even further away from any form of internal turnaround. Meta’s poaching would be the headline, but the true story is an Apple AI brain drain coming to its lowest point.

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AI & EDUCATION

📚 Teachers’ union launches $23M AI academy

The Rundown: The American Federation of Teachers partnered with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to create a national AI training hub that can prepare 400,000 educators to integrate the technology into classrooms across the U.S.

The main points:

• The academy will offer workshops, online courses, and skilled development, with its flagship campus in NYC, and plans to scale nationally.

• OpenAI is committing $10M in funding and technical support, with Microsoft and Anthropic also contributing to cover training, resources, and AI tool access.

• Teachers will gain access to priority support, API credits, and early education-focused AI features, with an emphasis on accessibility for high-needs districts.

Why it matters: With AI rapidly reshaping each the workforce and the classroom, this partnership helps higher equip teachers for being on the frontlines of a tech revolution for the younger generation. The academy’s success could influence how AI is taught, governed, and trusted in education for years to come back.

AI TRAINING

📅 Prepare for meetings using Google Gemini Apps

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn learn how to use Gemini AI to arrange for meetings — by analyzing your calendar, reviewing past emails, and researching participants to generate comprehensive briefings before every call.

Step-by-step:

1. Enable Gemini’s Google Workspace in settings to attach Gmail and Calendar

2. Ask: “Check my calendar for this week and show me all my meetings with participant details”

3. Review history: “Search my Gmail for previous conversations with [name] and summarize our past interactions in [timeframe]”

4. Get strategy: “Based on my upcoming meeting with [name], our previous chats, and current [company] context, suggest 5 questions I should prepare”

Pro Tip: After meetings, ask the AI to draft follow-up email templates based on the talking points you ready and discussed.

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🏆 Warp surpasses Claude Code on T-Bench

The Rundown: Warp just launched the primary Agentic Development Environment, and it’s already surpassed Claude Code by over +20% on Terminal-Bench — also scoring 71% on SWE-bench Verified to make it the best-performing AI coding agent available on the market.

Warp pulled ahead using:

• Long-running commands — something no other tool can support

• Agent multi-threading, running multiple agents in parallel all under your control

• Deployment across the complete development lifecycle

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MOONVALLEY

🎬 Moonvalley debuts filmmaker-friendly video AI

The Rundown: Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, just released Marey — a filmmaker-focused AI video model trained exclusively on licensed content that offers directors granular control over scenes.

The main points:

• Marey is trained exclusively on licensed footage to avoid copyright issues that plague other AI startups, heavily sourced from indie filmmakers and agencies.

• The model gives directors precise control over camera moves, character motion, backgrounds, and lighting, integrating directly into VFX workflows.

• Pricing starts at $14.99 monthly for 100 credits, scaling as much as $149.99 for 1,000 credits — with each five-second clip costing roughly $1-2 to render.

• The corporate has raised over $100M to this point and launched Marey alongside Asteria Film Co., an AI animation studio acquired by Moonvalley.

Why it matters: As Hollywood’s AI anxiety peaks, Marey is a test of whether ethical AI can win over creators. With a “clean” training set and a platform that acts as a precise director tool as a substitute of a “luck” based video slot machine, Marey could help shift AI’s narrative around tinseltown from existential threat to creative partnership.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🧊 Hunyuan 3D-PolyGen – AI model for skilled, art-grade 3D outputs

• 🤖 Proactor – A context-aware, memory-augmented “self-active” AI teammate

• ⚙️ Emergent 2.0 – Agentic vibe coding platform for production-ready apps

• 🤏 SmolLM3 – Hugging Face’s small, multilingual, long-context reasoner

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 📊 Dataiku – Senior Customer Operations Analyst

• 🧠 Harvey – Senior Technical Recruiter

• 🧬 Meta – AI Research Scientist, CoreML

• 🛠️ Groq – Sr. Physical Design Engineer

📰 Every part else in AI today

Meta invested $3.5B into Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica SA, giving the corporate a 3% stake on the earth’s largest eyewear maker and expanding its AI glasses partnership.

Microsoft and Replit announced a brand new partnership to bring the startup’s agentic coding capabilities to Azure enterprise customers.

OpenAI ramped up its security with fingerprint scans, isolated computer environments, and military expertise hires over espionage concerns from Chinese rivals.

Google rolled out the power to make use of first-frame image-to-video generations in Veo 3 with audio output, enhancing character consistency.

A U.S. diplomatic cable revealed that somebody used AI to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Signal, targeting no less than five people, including foreign ministers.

IBM unveiled its next-gen Power11 chips and servers, designed for simplified AI deployment in business operations.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team