🪩 World Labs Launches Marble 3D World Generator
Fei-Fei Li’s startup World Labs has launched Marble, its first commercial world model that turns text, photos, or videos into editable 3D environments. The freemium tool lets users export worlds and refine them with AI-native editing via its Chisel 3D editor, targeting gaming, VFX, and VR creators.

🏗️ Anthropic Invests $50B in U.S. AI Infrastructure
Anthropic will spend $50 billion to build U.S. AI data centers, starting in Texas and New York with partner Fluidstack. The project—reating 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs—aims to rival OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion build-out and bolster domestic compute capacity by 2026.

👨‍💼 Intel CTO Sachin Katti Jumps to OpenAI
Intel CTO and AI chief Sachin Katti has left after seven months to lead compute infrastructure at OpenAI, Reuters reports. His exit follows another Intel AI exec’s departure as CEO Lip Bu-Tan assumes direct oversight of AI and Advanced Technologies amid a sweeping corporate reshuffle.

💸 OpenAI Faces $74B Loss as Anthropic Breaks Even
Internal documents cited by The Wall Street Journal show OpenAI expects a $74 billion loss in 2028 despite committing $1.4 trillion to AI infrastructure over eight years. Rival Anthropic, valued near $200 billion, reportedly will break even that same year, buoyed by 300,000 corporate clients and stronger margins.

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Michael Burry bets big against AI, calling it the next bubble—but data shows massive real demand, record growth, and an infrastructure boom still unfolding.

Meta’s massive AI push is drawing investor skepticism after months of costly restructurings and lackluster product performance. Since investing $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI in June 2025, the company has poured billions more into its Superintelligence Lab—offering $100 million-a-year researcher contracts and pledging $600 billion in future infrastructure spending.

But internal turmoil, weak adoption of the Meta AI app (2.7 million daily users), and the delayed rollout of its Llama 4 Behemoth model have raised doubts about returns. Meta’s stock has shed most of its 2025 gains, as analysts question whether CEO Mark Zuckerberg can turn the company’s AI ambitions into profits rather than another “metaverse-style” money pit. → Read the full article here.

A new J.P. Morgan analysis warns that the global AI sector must generate roughly $650 billion in annual revenue to yield even a 10% return on expected investments through 2030. The report—shared by analyst Max Weinbach—illustrates the scale by equating it to perpetual monthly payments of $35 from every iPhone user or $180 from every Netflix subscriber.

Analysts caution that AI revenue growth could mirror the telecom fiber boom-and-bust of the early 2000s, where infrastructure spending far outpaced demand. While firms like OpenAI and Anthropic report billion-dollar run rates, profits remain elusive, and overcapacity risks loom as compute buildouts accelerate. → Read the full article here.

🚧 China Blocks Foreign AI Chips: Beijing ordered all state-funded data centres to use only domestic processors, sidelining NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel as it pushes for AI chip self-reliance.

📈 AMD Jumps on AI Growth Bet: Shares rose 7% after CEO Lisa Su projected 35% annual revenue growth over five years, calling massive AI infrastructure spending “the right gamble.”

🔐 Google Unveils Private AI Compute: The new platform lets Gemini cloud models process user data securely, blending on-device privacy with cloud power for faster, more personal AI experiences.

💵 WisdomAI Lands $50M Series A: The data startup raised new funding from Kleiner Perkins and NVIDIA’s NVentures to expand its AI analytics platform tackling LLM hallucinations.

🤖 Y Combinator Backs “Chad” IDE: The new coding platform “Chad: The Brainrot IDE” blends meme culture with AI-assisted programming.

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