🍭 Zuck Buys 49% of Scale AI 💸

What's $14.3b among friends? Acquisitions, community, and banger AI tools

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June 16, 2025

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Good morning. It’s Monday and Zuck just dropped like $14.3b like it was nothing.

Meanwhile, communities in AI are growing, students are still GPTing their papers and we are still digging for the best tools in AI to help you level up.

Let’s dig in.

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🍭 What’s Cookin’:

Meta <> Scale AI
Why We Started a Community
5 AI tools to stay ahead of the competition
And Everything Else you need to know

Meta <> Scale AI
💸 Deals Like This Create “Walled Gardens” in AI

The Bite: Meta just coughed up $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale AI

And CEO Alexandr Wang jumped ship to Zuckland. (Meta)

Now, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are doing the awkward shuffle toward the exit door.

Snacks:

🍭 Alexandr Wang is officially swapping the Scale captain’s chair for Meta’s AI superintelligence unit, leaving his old squad to Jason Droege, ex Uber VP.

🍭 Google’s allegedly pulling back a $200 million deal, Microsoft’s quietly ghosting, and OpenAI already did the slow fade.

🍭 Scale AI insists everything’s peachy and clients’ data is safe but Meta’s “strategic partnership” optics are scaring off the big tech frenemies.

Why it bites: Meta snagging Scale’s wunderkind CEO isn’t just a personnel shuffle it’s a tectonic flex, signaling they’re done playing AI catch up.

But this cozy new friendship has Scale’s former fan club getting cold feet faster than a high school romance.

The risk?

"Big AI” may forget about collabs to build walled gardens

Fragmenting the AI landscape into competing mega fiefs.

In other words: Your partner today could be your direct competitor tomorrow.

Welcome to the AI Hunger Games, may the odds (and your contracts) ever be in your favor.

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👥 Why We Started a Community

The Bite: Solo is fast.

But you can’t debug in a vacuum.

The truth is, we built the community we needed:

Somewhere to test ideas, share automations, and not feel like we’re building in the dark.

Snacks:

🍭 You Don’t Know What’s Missing

→ A broken system doesn’t always crash.
Sometimes it just quietly underperforms.

🍭 You Can’t Steal from Winners

→ No peers = no pattern recognition = no shortcuts.

🍭 You Lose Steam

→ Accountability isn’t just pressure.
It’s momentum.

Even just showing up changes the pace.

Why it Bites: This work gets lonely.

Not because you’re not good at it

But because there aren’t many people doing it at this level.

So we built a place for that.

And every time someone shows up, shares, or ships

We all get sharper.

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We have two calls per week where we share what’s working, what’s not, and offer help where we can.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

The Hill says companies replacing humans with AI should disclose.

→ “…(they should) disclose it, openly and in real time. Let the American people see which corporations are killing jobs while posting record profits.”

How to delete your 23andMe data

→ After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, the company became the center of a bidding war for your data.

Amazon signs nuclear energy deal to power AI data centers

→ The retail cloud behemoth locked in 1.9 GW of Susquehanna nuke juice through 2042, funneling carbon free electrons to its AI data ranches (and quietly subsidizing the rest of Pennsylvania’s grid fees).

UK students ctrl C AI, get ctrl Z grades

→ A fresh Guardian FOI scoop tallied ~7,000 proven ChatGPT style cheats last year 5× the old plagiarism rate and, academics warn, still “only the iceberg’s dandruff.”

The App Store’s new AI generated tags are live in the beta

→ Apple’s plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26.

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🍭 Zuck Buys 49% of Scale AI 💸