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Meta is going allāin on colossal AI campuses, Nvidiaās JensenāÆHuang is courting policymakers on both sides of the Pacific, and Google is turning NotebookLM into a curated learning library. Weāve also got a whirlwind acquisition in the codingāagent wars, fresh Pentagon dollars for frontier models, and Amazonās bid to tame āvibe coding.ā Letās dive in.
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1. Zuckerberg wagers āhundredsāÆofāÆbillionsā on superāscale AI hubs
Meta CEO MarkāÆZuckerberg unveiled plans to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI titans like the 5āGW Hyperion and 2026ābound Prometheus campusesāeach sprawling over an area ācomparable to a large part of Manhattan.ā The cash will fuel Metaās new Superintelligence Labs (led by AlexandrāÆWang and NatāÆFriedman) and push 2025 capāex to $64ā72āÆbillion. Meta has already sunk $14.3āÆbillion into ScaleāÆAI and says the spend is boosting ad efficiency, even as rival models outpace LlamaāÆ4.

2. Nvidiaās JensenāÆHuang pitches AI policy in WashingtonĀ and Beijing
On a whirlwind July tour, Jensen Huang met PresidentĀ Trump and U.S. lawmakers to champion domestic AI manufacturing, then flew to Beijing to talk productivity and announce a new, exportācompliant RTXāÆPRO GPU. Nvidia is also reāapplying to sell its H20 chip in China, underscoring Huangās message that AI is now āa fundamental resourceālike water or the internet.ā

3. NotebookLM rolls out eight āfeatured notebooksā you can talk to
Googleās AI notebook app now ships preāmade collections on topics from longevity (EricāÆTopol) to Shakespeare, complete with AI summaries and podcastāstyle Audio Overviews. Partners include The Atlantic and TheāÆEconomist, and Google says 140āÆk public notebooks were shared in the past monthāhinting at a future marketplace of expertācurated study packs.

4. Cognition (Devin) snaps up Windsurf days after Googleās reverseāacquihire
Just 72āÆhours after Google hired away Windsurfās CEO and coāfounders, Cognition signed a definitive deal to acquire the rest of the startup. Windsurf brings an AIāpowered IDE, $82āÆmillion ARR, and 350 enterprise customers; all remaining staff join Cognition, which plans to merge Windsurf tech into its agentic coder Devin. Deal terms werenāt disclosed.

5. Pentagon hands out $200āÆM AI contracts to Google, OpenAI, AnthropicāÆ&āÆxAI
The DoDās Chief Digital and AI Office picked four frontārunners to build āagentic AI workflowsā for nationalāsecurity useāeach contract worth up to $200āÆmillion. Muskās xAI simultaneously launched āGrokĀ for Government,ā offering its new GrokāÆ4 model to federal agencies. The awards follow an April White House order accelerating AI adoption and relaxed rules under PresidentāÆTrump.

6. Amazonās Kiro aims to turn āvibe codeā into productionāready software
Unveiled in preview, Kiro is an AI IDE that breaks a developer prompt into specs, design docs and task lists, then keeps them in sync as code evolves. Free for now, Kiro will charge $19 (Pro) and $39 (Pro+) per user per month for up to 3āÆk agent interactions. AWS built the tool but brands it separately, positioning it against GitHub Copilotās new agent mode and Google Gemini CodeāÆAssist.

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