Pocket-size superintelligence is coming

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Mark Zuckerberg says every person will soon carry a bespoke “superintelligence,” a federal judge just told Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “grow up” in their bitter lawsuit, Amazon struck a $20 million-a-year licensing deal with The New York Times, Alibaba’s new coding copilot raised China-backdoor alarms in Washington, and Jeff Bezos quietly bankrolled a startup that wants to be the “Netflix of AI-generated TV.”

In today’s TLDR AI:

• Meta unveils a road map to “personal superintelligence” for billions of users

• Judge scolds Musk and Altman in their high-stakes AI ownership clash

• Amazon pays the NYT $20M annually to feed its generative models

• Alibaba’s code-writing bot sparks national-security fears in the West

• Amazon backs Fable’s Showrunner, pitching a “Netflix of AI content”

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🧠 Meta pitches a pocket-size “personal superintelligence”

• TLDR: In a 3,000-word manifesto, Mark Zuckerberg promised Meta will deliver a context-aware, multimodal AI that “knows you better than any assistant on the market.”

• The model will remember past chats, read your camera feed (if you allow), and predict needs “seconds before you ask.”
  Meta says the core model will run locally on your device, with only opt-in data flowing to its cloud for retraining, though skeptics note the company’s mixed privacy track record. 

• Zuckerberg teased next-generation Ray-Ban “SuperLens” smart glasses as the first piece of hardware built to host the new AI. 

• An open API will let developers create plug-in “mini AIs” for the personal model, and Meta plans to take a 15% cut of any revenue they generate.

• Why it matters: If Meta really ships a cheap, on-device super-assistant, the fight for daily user attention could swing away from Siri, Alexa, and even ChatGPT.

⚖️ Judge to Musk & Altman: “Stop the games”

• TLDR: A federal magistrate refused to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI but blasted both sides for “press-release lawyering” and ordered faster discovery.

• Musk accuses Altman of betraying OpenAI’s nonprofit roots; OpenAI counters that Musk backed out when he couldn’t control the board.

• The judge combined dueling subpoenas, called their tactics “childish,” and set a 60-day deadline for turning over emails and deal memos.

• Legal experts say settlement odds just rose: neither side wants private chats about investor power plays in open court.

• Why it matters: Two of AI’s most powerful voices could finally air their grievances under oath or strike a hush-hush deal that reshapes OpenAI’s future.

💰 Amazon locks in New York Times content for $20M a year

• TLDR: The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon will pay at least $20 million annually to license NYT archives and real-time stories for its generative models.

• Beats OpenAI’s rumored $10M offer and includes a multiyear escalation clause.

• The deal grants Amazon an “early-warning” feed when the Times updates or corrects stories, useful for news-summarizing AIs.

• Times newsroom staffers say the paper will tag AI-generated excerpts so readers can tell the difference.

• Why it matters: Licensing wars are heating up; premium publishers now have a price tag, and access to trusted data is becoming a moat.

🛠️ Alibaba’s new coding copilot alarms U.S. security hawks

• TLDR: “Tongyi Coding Pro” impressed devs with instant bug fixes, but U.S. officials worry it could slip hidden exploits into Western software.”

• The bot autocompletes Python, Go, and Rust and explains vulnerabilities line-by-line.

• Homeland Security is reviewing federal contractors’ use of the tool, citing supply-chain risk.

• Alibaba says it’ll open the source scanner for third-party audits; Capitol Hill aides still eye export-control options.

• Why it matters: AI coding assistants are everywhere; if provenance checks don’t keep up, backdoors could spread at machine speed.

🎬 Bezos backs “Netflix of AI” startup Showrunner

• TLDR: Amazon led a $120M round in Fable, whose Showrunner app generates 22-minute TV episodes from a one-sentence prompt.

• Early demos spoof The Office and Friends; user prompts guide plot twists and laugh-track timing.

• Amazon sees the tech as a future Prime-Video plug-in; Hollywood unions call it a “writers-room bypass.”

• Fable claims its training data is fully licensed but hasn’t disclosed the roster.

• Why it matters: When the planet’s biggest retailer reshapes org charts around AI, every enterprise has to reconsider its own.

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