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$6.5 Billion, Veo-3, & Claude 4
Prith
May 30, 2025
1/ OpenAI just dropped $6.5B to bring in Jony Ive.
Yes, the Jony Ive — the design legend behind Apple’s most iconic products, working side by side with Steve Jobs himself.
Technically they acquired his firm, but let’s be real: Sam Altman paid for once-in-a-generation creative firepower.
BREAKING: OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s secret AI company io for $6.5 Billion and will develop a slew of devices. Ive, in his return to hardware, and LoveFrom will oversee OpenAI design. All the details, including interviews with Ive, Sam Altman & others —
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
5:00 PM • May 21, 2025
Sometimes, talent really is worth the multi-billion-dollar price tag.
2/ Veo 3 is jaw-droppingly realistic.
Google’s Veo-3 is here — and it’s pushing the boundaries of AI-generated video to new cinematic heights.
General population is cooked 😭
You can literally create news clips with Veo-3 now , what’s even real anymore?— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success)
8:55 AM • May 22, 2025
The realism, the detail, the coherence... this is Hollywood-level generative media.
3/ AI & Robotics are now eating software.
Marc Andreessen once said, “Software is eating the world.”
Sam Altman: we are not ready for what’s coming!
And that's exactly the thing I try to explain in everyday life to people who don't consume AI news on a daily basis: AI and robotics will completely replace us. And we are not prepared!
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus)
3:51 PM • May 20, 2025
But in 2025? Robotics and AI are eating software and the world — transforming industries that haven’t evolved in decades.
From warehouses to healthcare, automation is the new foundation.
4/ Claude 4 Opus just dropped, and it’s a beast:
Phenomenal at code & longform writing
200K context window
Up to 32K output tokens
This is OpenAI-tier performance, but from Anthropic — the competition just got even more interesting.