Meta's Nuclear AI Bet

Meta’s hunt for GitHub’s former CEO, Claude Code just became way more accessible, and generate full on slide decks with Manus…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• Meta’s pursuit of Nat Friedman and the AI talent grab

• A tutorial on how to supercharge your coding workflow with Claude Code

• A breakdown on generating slides with Manus

• 5 more AI developments

• 3 AI tools streamlining your productivity

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

Zuck’s Going All In to Land GitHub’s Former CEO

Meta is reportedly in talks to hire former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and AI investor Daniel Gross to join Zuckerberg's new "superintelligence" team. If successful, this would be the crown jewel in Meta's unprecedented talent grab that's reshaping Silicon Valley's AI landscape.

Friedman isn't just any tech executive, he's the guy who turned GitHub into the developer platform that powers the entire software world. Landing him would signal Meta's serious intentions to build developer-first AI tools that could rival ANYTHING OpenAI has cooking…

This hiring push is part of Zuckerberg's nuclear AI strategy:

• Meta just dropped $14.8 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, poaching CEO Alexandr Wang in the process to help lead the superintelligence effort.

• The company has been offering OpenAI employees $100 million signing bonuses to switch sides, according to Sam Altman himself.

• Meta plans to spend at least $450 million annually on Scale's services alone, more than half their total AI budget going to one company.

So What?

Friedman's potential hiring reveals Meta's real strategy - they're not just trying to build better AI models, they're trying to control the entire AI development ecosystem. GitHub under Friedman became the central nervous system for all software development. Now imagine that same approach applied to AI development tools and platforms.

Sam Altman's public shots at Meta's "culture of innovation" suggest OpenAI sees the writing on the wall. When you're spending $15 billion and offering nine-figure signing bonuses just to assemble your dream team, you're seriously planning to rewrite the rules entirely…

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Get Your Hands Dirty!

Turn Your IDE Into an AI Powerhouse with Claude Code

The days of constantly switching between your IDE, Stack Overflow, and ChatGPT are officially over.

Claude Code recently launched seamless integrations with VSCode (including Cursor and Windsurf) and JetBrains IDEs, letting you summon Claude's coding superpowers directly inside your development environment.

Here's how to set it up in VSCode:

1. Open VSCode, and then an integrated terminal.

2. Simply run the command claude.

3. The extension installs automatically!

Claude can now see your entire project context, understand your codebase structure, and provide suggestions that actually make sense for your specific setup.

And of course we already tried to push code with it…

Tool Spotlight

End PowerPoint Procrastination with Manus

You know that feeling when you're staring at a blank PowerPoint slide, wondering where you'll find the perfect image for your quarterly review? Well, Manus AI just solved that problem in the most elegant way possible.

Manus AI, China’s breakthrough autonomous AI agent, recently launched their Slides as part of their larger ecosystem. Instead of hunting for stock photos and wrestling with slide layouts, you can now feed Manus a simple prompt and watch it create an entire presentation, complete with custom-generated visuals.

Here's how to get started:

1. Head to manus.im and create your free account (you get 1,000 credits to test it out).

2. Navigate to the Manus Playbook, then select the community pick for AI slides creation (this is actually a community-created feature that pre-prompts Manus for you).

3. Drop in your content. This is where it gets interesting, you can use:

   • A simple text prompt like "Create a 12-slide deck on Q2 sales performance with charts and supporting visuals"

   • Upload entire PDF reports or Word documents

   • Paste in website links for Manus to analyze

4. Let the AI work its magic. Behind the scenes, Manus uses Claude Sonnet to extract context, determine content hierarchy, and design slide layouts that are both informative and aesthetically coherent.

5. Finally, just review and polish. AI handles the heavy lifting, but you can still tweak designs, swap out images, or adjust the flow by downloading in .PPTX format.

🔥 Pro move: Give Manus notes on your brand guidelines to customize your PowerPoints!

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

The "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton revealed which jobs are safest from AI displacement, pointing to roles requiring physical dexterity, emotional intelligence, and complex human interaction as most resilient.

Andy Jassy told Amazon employees that AI will reduce the company's corporate workforce in the coming years, part of a broader shift as generative AI transforms how businesses operate across industries.

MiniMax launched M1, a new open-source model with 1 million token context and breakthrough hyper-efficient reinforcement learning, challenging closed-source alternatives with unprecedented context length.

Google made Gemini 2.5 models generally available for production use, positioning them to challenge OpenAI's enterprise dominance with enhanced multimodal capabilities and enterprise-grade reliability.

OpenAI launched "OpenAI for Government", a specialized program offering AI tools and support specifically designed for government agencies and public sector organizations.

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The Neural Network

The productivity gains from AI aren't just hype anymore, they're measurable and significant.

A new UK government study found that AI-powered assistant tools are saving workers an average of 26 minutes daily on work tasks, which adds up to reclaiming 13 full days annually...

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