AI giants join forces on Genesis Mission

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The U.S. government just assembled the AI equivalent of the Avengers — and the nation’s science moonshot is taking shape in an enormous way.

With 24 tech giants from OpenAI to xAI joining forces with 40K government researchers, the Genesis Mission will be the most ambitious scientific collaboration because the atomic age.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• U.S. DOE signs on 24 tech giants for Genesis Mission

• OpenAI opens ChatGPT app marketplace to developers

• Make Claude Code smarter with the Context7 MCP

• Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches recent AI lab

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GENESIS MISSION

🏛️ U.S. DOE signs on 24 tech giants for Genesis Mission

The Rundown: The U.S. Dept. of Energy just announced partnerships with 24 organizations to power the Trump administration’s Genesis Mission effort to speed up scientific research with AI — including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Nvidia.

The main points:

• The initiative unites 17 national labs with 40K researchers, targeting breakthroughs in nuclear energy, quantum computing, and manufacturing.

• Google DeepMind will grant lab scientists early access to tools, including its AI co-scientist agent, AlphaEvolve coding system, and AlphaGenome DNA model.

• AWS pledged as much as $50B in government AI infrastructure, with OAI already deploying models on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Venado supercomputer.

• Additional signatories include xAI, Microsoft, Palantir, AMD, Oracle, Cerebras, and CoreWeave.

Why it matters: This seems like an Avengers collaboration for U.S. AI, with everyone from frontier labs, chipmakers, cloud providers, and other industry titans teaming as much as tackle AI advances which were in comparison with the Manhattan Project. What comes out of it’s anyone’s guess, but this group of collaborators is a really strong first step.

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OPENAI

📱 OpenAI opens ChatGPT app marketplace to developers

The Rundown: OpenAI just unveiled an expansion of its dedicated app directory inside ChatGPT, opening submissions for third-party developers while giving users a browsable hub to find and connect integrated services.

The main points:

• The brand new directory organizes offerings across Featured, Lifestyle, and Productivity categories, accessible via the tools menu or apps page.

• Developers can construct using OAI’s beta SDK, with resources like sample code, interface libraries, and step-by-step submission guides now available.

• Current apps include Photoshop, Canva, DoorDash, Spotify, and Zillow, with users in a position to use the external tools directly in ChatGPT conversations.

• Revenue options are currently limited to external website links, though OpenAI says it’s exploring digital goods and broader monetization paths.

Why it matters: OpenAI continues to position ChatGPT as an ‘all the pieces’ interface over a standalone assistant, and opening itself to third-party apps can proceed to broaden that have for consumers. But as we previously saw with the GPT Store struggles, simply because an app is built doesn’t necessarily mean the users will come.

AI TRAINING

🤓 Make Claude Code smarter with the Context7 MCP

The Rundown: Learn tips on how to give Claude Code the context it must make far fewer mistakes and successfully pull the most recent coding documentation immediately by connecting it to the Context7 MCP.

Step-by-step:

1. Create a brand new project folder in Cursor, open a brand new terminal, type “Claude” to start Claude Code, then open a second terminal in your Context7 install script

2. Create a free Context7 account, click the “Claude Code” tab, copy the “Distant” installation script, create an API key, and paste it where it says YOUR_API_KEY

3. Paste the installation script into your regular terminal (not Claude Code), then create a Claude.md file with rules: “At all times use context7 when I would like code generation, setup, configuration steps, or library/API documentation” — specify doc sources like

4. Test Context7 by sending a planning prompt: “Construct an easy html site that creates random teams of 6 pokemon with lock/reshuffle features using pokapi docs” — approve tool use and choose “Yes, and never ask again for Context7”

Pro tip: Hit ctrl+o in a Claude Code terminal to see its full thoughts. It’s good practice to grasp the way it thinks.

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FIGURE AI

🚀 Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches recent AI lab 

The Rundown: Robotics startup Figure AI CEO and founder Brett Adcock is reportedly starting a brand new AI lab called Hark, backed entirely by $100M in personal funding, in accordance with The Information.

The main points:

• The enterprise will pursue “human-centric AI” able to proactive reasoning, continuous self-improvement, and designed to “care deeply about humans.”

• Hark’s first GPU cluster reportedly got here online this week, though the corporate hasn’t disclosed the dimensions or specs of the infrastructure.

• Adcock will still run Figure, which has secured nearly $2B in funding at a $39B valuation, alongside the brand new AI lab.

Why it matters: Despite vicious competition between the highest labs, there is no such thing as a shortage of competitors still spinning up — showing there continues to be loads of belief that frontier AI has unexplored directions the most important players could also be missing. With Figure’s robotics success, Hark could also follow the integrated path being paved by Tesla/xAI.

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• 📜 Mistral OCR 3 – SOTA model for extracting text and pictures from documents

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📰 All the pieces else in AI today

Angular just released: v21, modernizes Angular apps with signal-powered forms, Vitest because the default test runner, recent headless components, and MCP-powered AI workflows.*

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.2-Codex, an updated coding-focused model with strengthened cybersecurity abilities.

Mistral launched OCR 3, a document-reading model that converts notes, scanned forms, and tables into clean text — claiming the highest spot across OCR benchmarks.

Vibe coding platform Lovable announced a brand new $330M Series B funding round that values the corporate at $6.6B.

Hollywood actors and filmmakers began the Creators Coalition on AI, a brand new advocacy group backed by over 500 artists pushing for industry standards around consent, compensation, and deepfake protections.

Elon Musk reportedly told employees in an all-hands meeting that xAI may reach AGI as early as 2026, saying it will probably beat out rivals in the event that they can “survive the subsequent 2-3 years.”

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COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Mike in Haddonfield, NJ:

“My furnace died and my Nest went dark, so I attempted using Gemini as a DIY field guide. I uploaded a photograph of the error code, and it immediately walked me through getting power back to the unit. After I shared a photograph of the HVAC setup, Gemini spotted a ‘hidden’ safety activate the condensate pump and appropriately guessed the drainage hose was blocked.

It even suggested a MacGyver-style fix: using a turkey baster to clear the road. quarter-hour later, the warmth was back on, and I’d saved myself an emergency service call. It is a total game-changer for real-world troubleshooting.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our last AI newsletter: Google’s Flash-y recent Gemini 3 release

• Read our last Tech newsletter: The AI boom’s phone problem

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: The highest 5 robotics trends this 12 months

• Today’s AI tool guide: Make Claude Code smarter with the Context7 MCP

• RSVP to next workshop @ 4PM EST today: Google NotebookLM For Work

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown