Google's Windsurf Coup, Meta's Closed AI Shift, Thinking Machines' $2B Seed

🔥 Story Of The Week: AI talent war intensifies as Google poaches Windsurf's leadership while Cognition acquires the company's remnants.

⭐️ Must Reads: Meta signals a potential shift to closed-source AI, top researchers warn of losing AI reasoning transparency, AWS launches an AI agent marketplace and Goldman Sachs tests Devin as part of workforce.

🧰 Technology: Mistral enters the audio space with open-source Voxtral, Anthropic targets financial professionals with new tool and Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 model emerges as a powerful open-source competitor.

📊 Business And Economy: Meta details massive data center plans, analysts call for Tim Cook's ouster over Apple's AI stumbles and former engineer reveals OpenAI's chaotic work culture.

📝 Policy And Regulation: Nvidia and AMD set to resume AI chip sales to China, EU publishes a code of practice for its AI Act and Google study finds AI models quickly lose confidence when challenged.

⚡ Startups And Investments: Thinking Machines Lab lands a record $2B seed round, Meta acquires voice AI startup PlayAI and SpaceX invests $2B into xAI.