AI NEWS: Meta just tried poaching from Mira Murati's new startup, with offers going up to $1B. Plus, more news from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Ideogram, Cursor, Writer, and Moonvalley. Here's everything you need to know:

Meta reportedly tried hiring from ex-Open CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab for its new superintelligence unit The co approached over a dozen TML staffers with $200-500M offers, and one going over $1B None of the offers have been accepted yet

OpenAI launched a new study mode for ChatGPT The feature will use prompts, hints, and knowledge checks to guide students through problems, encouraging active learning instead of direct answers Rolling out immediately for Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users

Microsoft added a new podcast feature in Copilot It takes detailed answers on any subject, from physics to history, and converts them into a custom podcast Once ready, users can go through each episode, listening to AI speakers talking about the subject

Google's NotebookLM introduced a revamped UI with Video Overviews It allows users to convert source materials into video slides, complete with narration. The update also includes the ability to create multiple outputs from the same sources

Ideogram just released Character, a new AI model for character consistency Using just one reference image, it creates consistent character images in any style, expression, scene, and lighting Available to all Ideogram web and iOS users, for free

Cursor 1.3 is now rolling out. Key features include: —Native terminal sharing with Agent —Ability to see context usage in chat —Faster Agent edits, with Search and replace latency reduced by 25% and Apply edits by 11%

WRITER dropped a new 'Super' Action Agent for its enterprise customers It independently executes complex, multi-step knowledge tasks from start to finish, while connecting to over 600 tools Will also get MCP support in the coming days

Moonvalley announced sketch-to-video, an emergent capability in its Marey video model Using only text and a rough hand sketch as input, it creates a ready-to-use, realistic clip

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