Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• The $200M AI Military Revolution 🏛️

• AI's Biggest Partnership Just Collapsed 💥

• Alta raises $11M for AI fashion tech 💼

• Meta's $14.3B scale AI acquisition triggers industry exodus 🏃‍♂️

• Turn any idea into animated videos using MagicLight AI ✨

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

OpenAI secures historic $200M Pentagon contract 💰️ 

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, has secured a $200M defense contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence. It is OpenAI's first high-profile public defense contract.🤖

• DoD will give OpenAI as much as $200M to finance the project, with a payment of $2M made upfront.
  

• Contract is intended to develop frontier prototype AI capabilities for administrative and security work.
  

• DoD defines agreement as encompassing 'warfighting' whereas OpenAI defines as 'healthcare' and 'enabling proactive cyber defense'
  

• Completion of the construction will be expected in July 2026, as per the US Department of Defense 

Why You Should Care: This is OpenAI's first big venture into defense contracting, potentially opening up new sources of revenue for AI firms and raising eyebrows about AI's moving into military applications. The deal has precedents for other AI companies seeking government alliances.

OpenAI-Microsoft relationship hits breaking point 🗣️ 

OpenAI executives have considered publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior throughout their partnership and mulled whether to seek a federal regulatory review of their contract with Microsoft 📢

• OpenAI is trying to loosen Microsoft's grip on its intellectual property and computing resources.

• The two companies are in a fight over OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of AI coding company, Windsurf.

• OpenAI doesn't want Microsoft to get Windsurf's intellectual property which could enhance GitHub Copilot.

• In recent months, OpenAI has reportedly tried to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for cloud services.

Why You Should Care: This partnership breakup can redefine the entire AI ecosystem. A breakup between Microsoft and OpenAI would accelerate competition and force OpenAI to seek alternative computing infrastructure, which would decelerate work on subsequent models.

Michelle Obama's Stylist Backs $11M AI Fashion👕

Alta, a clothing tech startup inspired by the mythic AI closet of Clueless, has raised $11 million in seed funding to build an AI personal stylist and shopping assistant. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and includes a star-studded list of fashion and tech investors. 🧑‍💻

• The app helps users scan their closets via pictures, receipts, and product searches in order to generate AI-created outfit ideas and style lookbooks.

• Backers include LVMH’s Algaé Ventures, Anthropic’s Anthology fund, and Phenomenal Ventures, along with angels like DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, models Karlie Kloss and Jasmine Tookes, and Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss.

• Michelle Obama’s stylist, Meredith Koop, invested in and helped train Alta’s fashion AI model, adding real-world fashion credibility.

• Alta has partnered with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and is planning to expand into Europe and Oceania.

Why You Should Care: Alta is the future of consumer AI because it marries nostalgia and high-tech personalization, it leverages fashion-tech in a highly human and scalable way.

Meta's $14B AI Takeover Shakes Tech World 🫠 

Meta has agreed to invest in Scale AI in a multibillion-dollar deal and has appointed the startup's CEO to serve on its AI program. The deal is creating huge disruption in the AI data universe.📊

• Meta will take a 49% stake for $14.3B, with Scale AI worth $29B.

• Scale announced that its CEO, Alexandr Wang, would quit to become an executive in charge of a new "Superintelligence" unit inside the tech giant.

• Wang will join Meta to work on superintelligence efforts as part of deepening their data production partnership.

• The organization earned $870M revenues last year and is anticipating to earn $2B this year

Why You Should Care: Meta's massive spending indicates its willingness to play catch-up with Google and OpenAI in the race for AI stakes. By acquiring Scale's data annotation technology and poaching its CEO, Meta is placing a bet that better training data will unlock AI dominance.

ANIMATED VIDEO GENERATION

Turn Your Ideas into Animated Videos in Minutes ✨

MagicLight AI takes whatever you write and transforms it into a full animated video, complete with characters, voiceovers, and professional-looking scenes. No experience needed. No expensive software subscription. No freelancers required. Just one tool with unlimited possibilities 🎯✅

What you can create:

• Impactful ads and product demos

• Engaging educational content

• Viral YouTube videos and AI movies

Here’s some key features of MagicLight AI

• All in one tool, just create video by your prompt

• Support video length flexibility for creator, up to 30 minutes

• It can keep the characters consistent

• Support creator to upload their own pictures to customize character

• Create viral-style videos like your reference.

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Go to MagicLight.ai and Create your free account (you’ll get ~300 free credits). Once you're in, click "Create AI Video" from your dashboard to open your blank canvas. ✅ 
   

2. Just type what you want your video to be about in the text box.
   

   Try something like: “A young girl on Mars plants the first flower grown off Earth. As it blooms, the colony around her begins to believe in a future filled with beauty.”✍️
   

   

   
   

3. Choose your aspect ratio (16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for social media), select a visual style like Cinematic or Realistic, and set how long you want it. You can go anywhere from quick 30-second clips to full 30+ minute videos. 📱

   

4. Click "Next" then "Generate Video". The AI breaks down your script into individual scenes and shows you a preview timeline. You can see exactly what each part will look like before committing. 🤖
   

   

5. Select characters from the stock for your video. You can also upload your own pictures to create fully customized characters ✨ 
   

   

   MagicLight automatically keeps your characters consistent across the entire video ✅ 

6. This is where it gets interesting. You can tweak scenes with simple commands like "Add calming forest sounds in the background" or "Make the robot's voice deeper and slower." You can also manually swap backgrounds, change voiceover styles, or adjust timing by dragging sliders.
   

   

7. Hit "Generate Video" one more time to render the final version. Download it or publish directly to your platform of choice.
   

   

Worth trying if you've been putting off video content because it seemed too complicated or time-consuming ✅ 

Try MagicLight AI for FREE 👈️ 

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Startup roadmap: From idea to $10k/mon (Use GPT-4o) ✍️

"You're my personal startup advisor. I have a rough idea: [insert idea]. Help me turn this into a real business by stress-testing the concept, identifying a clear target audience, outlining a lean MVP, and giving me a step-by-step plan to earn my first $10k."

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Reachy.ai - Automate LinkedIn outreach to effortlessly find leads, partners, and talent.

Synthesia – Create training or marketing videos with AI avatars and voiceovers.

Otter.ai – Accurate real-time transcription and meeting summaries.

Manus – AI agent performing autonomous workflows like web scraping and analysis