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OpenAI execs respond to Meta offers

Internal memos

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Monday.

OpenAI leaders are in crisis-response mode after Meta poached several senior researchers.

In a Slack memo obtained by Wired, Chief Research Officer Mark Chen likened the exits to “someone breaking into our home” and said management is recalibrating compensation and talking with every staffer who has an offer.

Chen added that most employees will take a recharge week while executives work through it, aiming to curb burnout after stretches of 80-hour weeks.

Meanwhile, Meta is restructuring its AI unit under a new group called Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman.

The move consolidates all AI teams and follows a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, along with high-profile hires from DeepMind and Anthropic.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

Casey Neistat shared a fully AI-generated music video made with Google Veo.

Directed by Max Joseph. 250 hours of editing.

And then there’s this…

A mysterious band called The Velvet Sundown appeared out of nowhere and already has over 550,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

Here’s the crazy part:

If they’re real, they’ll blow up just from people thinking they’re AI.

If they’re AI, then we’re about to see thousands more like this. Labels and creators testing names, sounds, and vibes with low overhead…

💡 Here’s what you should know

💰 The numbers

  • Clio is acquiring legal AI platform vLex for $1B, adding 1B+ legal documents and boosting its ARR to $300M.

  • Cato Networks closed a $359M Series G round to bolster its AI-driven SASE cybersecurity platform.

  • Gensmo raised $60M in seed funding to scale its AI fashion agent for virtual try-ons and personalized styling.

  • Levelpath raised a $55M Series B to grow its AI-native procurement platform built by the Scout RFP team.

  • Tandem Health secured a €42.6M (~$50M) Series A to expand its AI clinical documentation assistant into a full healthcare OS.

🧠 Thought starters

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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