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Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively competing with Google and OpenAI in the AI space by creating a "Superintelligence" team at Meta. He's personally recruiting top talent, offering unprecedented compensation packages starting at $2 million annually and reaching up to $10 million for specialists. Meta plans to invest $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI to advance its AI capabilities. This aggressive spending is intensifying competition across the tech industry, forcing rivals to match Meta's approach or risk falling behind in AI development.

CoreWeave has reopened acquisition talks with Bitcoin miner Core Scientific, a year after their initial $1B offer was rejected. Core Scientific's shares rose 8% on the news, pushing its market cap to nearly $4B. The companies already collaborate through infrastructure contracts, reflecting a broader trend of consolidation in the energy-intensive crypto mining sector.

DeepSeek has delayed the launch of its DeepSeek-R2 AI model, originally planned for May, after CEO Liang Wenfeng expressed dissatisfaction with its performance. The model aims to improve upon R1 with better coding abilities and multi-language reasoning support. Technical challenges are compounded by limited access to advanced Nvidia chips due to U.S. export restrictions, particularly the ban on H20 AI processors for China. While DeepSeek has shared technical specifications with Chinese cloud providers to prepare infrastructure, no new timeline has been announced. This delay reflects broader challenges facing Chinese AI developers amid global supply chain restrictions and technical hurdles.

Pearson and Google have formed a multi-year strategic partnership to develop AI-powered educational tools using Google Cloud's Vertex AI Platform with Gemini and LearnLM. The collaboration aims to create personalized learning experiences for K-12 students that adapt to individual pace while providing teachers with data-driven insights for targeted instruction. The partnership integrates Pearson's educational content with Google's AI models across both companies' product suites, working to prepare students for future workforce demands and help teachers implement AI effectively in classrooms.