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This Week’s Highlights

Microsoft Embraces Musk’s Grok AI

You heard that right. I mean, read that right.

Microsoft is opening the doors of its Azure AI Foundry to Grok, the conversational AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI. Yes, the same Elon who once warned us about AI doom is now teaming up with Microsoft, who is also married to OpenAI. It’s complicated.

But the bigger picture? Azure is becoming the go-to Airbnb for third-party AI models such as, Anthropic, Mistral, and now Grok. The AI arms race is on, and Microsoft wants to be Switzerland. (If you know, you know)

Source: The Verge

Microsoft is SPENDING

People on Wall Street were whispering that there’s a ‘slowdown’ in AI spending. And Microsoft and Meta took it personally, now they are going all-in on AI infrastructure.

Meta bumped up its 2025 capital expenditures to a whopping $68 billion (yes, with a “B”), while Microsoft spent over $21 billion just last quarter and expects to surpass $80 billion this year.

These aren’t just numbers. This is a massive fuel for the biggest AI bonfire we’ve ever seen.

Source: The Investor

Spotify Wants to Clone Your Voice

CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek’s next frontier? Making all 7 million podcasts on Spotify instantly translatable into English using AI voice cloning.

Picture this: a Japanese wellness guru, a Brazilian football coach, and an Indian historian, all speaking fluent English in their own voice.

Spotify isn’t just local anymore, it’s GLOBAL with all caps.

The real question is: Can AI finally make Joe Rogan easier to follow?

Read the whole thing, it’s wild: NY Post

Meta AI Inside WhatsApp Chat Window

You open WhatsApp to message your mom. Boom! Meta AI pops up asking if you want help asking for a little cash.

While Meta promises it’s optional and “private,” users aren’t thrilled with the sudden arrival of AI assistants in their sacred chat space.

Meta insists this is about user empowerment. Users say it’s about AI overstaying its welcome. Stay tuned.

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Billionaire Blueprint to Ban Unions, Boost AI, Own the Narrative

Ken Griffin, the hedge fund tycoon behind Citadel, isn’t just shaping markets; he’s trying to shape America.

The Nation peeled back the layers of Griffin’s influence campaign, revealing how his wealth bankrolls political candidates, university policies, and an aggressive anti-union agenda.

Griffin is also placing big bets on AI, not just in finance, but in education.

He’s invested $300 million into Khan Academy to push AI tutors into classrooms, praising them as “the future” while openly bashing public schools and teachers’ unions.

If that sounds like Silicon Valley’s techno-utopianism meets Wall Street’s austerity politics… it kind of is.

Griffin’s formula? Disempower labour, privatize education, sprinkle in AI, and call it innovation. Whether you’re a student, a worker, or just a human trying to keep up, his vision for the future might include less unionizing and more algorithmizing.

And that’s why you should know about him. I recently learnt about him, so I thought maybe I should let you guys know who I met. No, I’m not online friends with him.

From what it sounds like… when billionaires like Griffin say AI will “level the playing field,” they often mean tilting it even more in their favour.

Read more about him: The Nation

🍔 QUICK BYTES

1. A new study found that AI helps reduce time spent on tasks but also creates new ones. Only 3–7% of time savings translate into actual wage increases. So yes, AI might take your job, or just add to your to-do list.

2. Business leaders remain cautious about where to place their AI bets. Policy instability and economic uncertainty are making them slow to hire, even if they’re excited to automate.

3. The European Commission and U.S. lawmakers are finally catching up with deepfakes, automated bots, and the Pandora’s box of GenAI. Expect a wave of regulation soon.

4. YouTube is testing AI-generated voiceovers to help creators instantly dub their videos into new languages. Multilingual content, here we come!

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If you missed Tuesday’s issue, we covered Duolingo’s AI takeover, IBM’s $500M bet on AI startups, and Apple’s bold move to ditch Broadcom for in-house chips.

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