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Meta's AI Power Play, Government Model Gates & $60B Cursor Deal
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Meta lands the architect of AI reasoning and a top safety researcher in a single week as the US government quietly takes control of frontier model releases. Plus: DRAM prices hit consumers and SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition rewrites the AI lab map.
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Denny Zhou just moved to Meta, and that's not a footnote. Zhou is the researcher who built Chain-of-Thought prompting, the technique that taught large language models to reason through problems step by step.
Zhou's arrival at Meta coincides with another significant hire. Dawn Song, one of the foremost AI security researchers in the field, joined Meta's Superintelligence Lab as VP of AI Research, bringing her Virtue AI team and their red-teaming and runtime guardrail expertise.
Meanwhile, the US government is now functioning as a gatekeeper for frontier model releases, and the criteria remain entirely opaque. OpenAI delayed the public release of GPT-5.6, which includes variants named Sol, Terra, and Luna, restricting access to vetted customers only as of June twenty-sixth.
The hardware story is now consumer-facing. Micron reported three hundred forty-five percent year-over-year revenue growth, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand.
One more development worth tracking. SpaceX acquired coding AI startup Cursor for sixty billion dollars.
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