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The legal battle between Elon Musk & OpenAI got a psychological turn, revealing a obsession with Google’s Demis Hassabis that ended a decade-long friendship.
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AI INSIGHTS
Recent legal filings from the ongoing lawsuit between Elon Musk and OpenAI have revealed a central theme: a deep-seated preoccupation with Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind.
Internal communications from 2018 suggest that those close to Elon Musk viewed Hassabis's progress as a direct threat to a positive future for humanity. The rivalry between Google & the Musk/Altman camp led to the collapse of major personal relationships.
Elon Musk testified that his successful recruitment of Ilya Sutskever from Google was the specific event that ended his friendship with Google co-founder Larry Page.
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Demis Hassabis reportedly did everything possible to keep Sutskever at Google. When he chose OpenAI, Page stopped speaking to Musk, a silence that has lasted for over a decade.
While Musk focused on the threat posed by Google, Sam Altman’s private messages reveal a different motivation: the pursuit of industry dominance. The rivalry wasn't just about market share; it was about the structure of power.
Even in 2023, OpenAI executives like Mira Murati were emailing Microsoft leadership about the critical importance of not losing top researchers to Hassabis.
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1. Pro: Google Vids: Hidden Free Google AI Tool Does More Than Most AI Video Tools (Even Sora 2). Here's how to use Google Vids to turn slides, scripts, voiceovers, and Veo clips into one simple video workflow.
2. Free: 7 Practical Ways to Outperform 90% of Normal AI Users & 2x Your Productivity. These 7 simple habits can completely change how fast you learn, work, and build (for beginners)
3. Video: Claude Code: 7 Hidden Commands to Save Tokens and Build a 10x Reasoning Workflow. These help you think deeper, reduce token waste, clean up context, and automate work even when you’re not online.
4. Video: How I Built My AI Employee: 6 Insane Claude Cowork Use Cases (Save 6 hours+/week), from automated video editing workflows to deep competitor analysis, that feel borderline unfair once you start using them.
SOLVING CLAUDE MEMORY PROBLEM
Claude memory is basically useless out of the box. Hard to say that about a tool we use every single day, but it is true. You tell Claude everything. You re-explain. It forgets. You re-explain again.
Now if you only use Claude once a week, maybe that doesn’t bother you. But we use Claude almost every hour for real work, then that’s a real problem. So after months of honestly failing with different setups, we finally found a solution that works. And it comes down to 3 layers of Claude memory:
Layer 1: Super easy to set up, takes 5 minutes, and enough for 90%+ users
Layer 2: This is for Claude's long term brain, where most serious users should be
Layer 3: For people running multiple projects, automations, or AI agent workflows across different tools.
In this article, we’ll walk through all 3 layers together, step by step. You’ll get exact prompts, file templates, and methods you can copy today.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
⚡ Important: OpenAI just dropped a separate Codex Enterprise promo hours ago. Highly recommend your team apply for the 2 months of Free Codex usage. It fills up super fast, so apply ASAP here.
🤖 Claude Code upgraded with multi-agent view. Even Anthropic’s team says it’s “the best way to level up from 1 agent to many agents.” See how it works here. Its weekly limits are also increasing 50%, now through July 13.
💼 “Claude for Small Business” is released. Not just chatting anymore, it now handles invoices, emails, workflows, files, and business apps across your entire company (link)
💡 If you already lives inside Notion daily, you may wanna save this. Notion turned into a hub for AI agents, workflows, and live company data. Watch its announcement.
🤯 Meta employees reportedly organized a protest after learning mouse-tracking tools could help train future AI agents. They're increasingly uncomfortable with this.
⚖️ Meta is trying to avoid a potential multibillion-dollar EU fine by temporarily opening free WhatsApp access to rival AI chatbots (like ChatGPT, Claude, or others)
🛰️ Google & SpaceX might literally move AI servers into space. Musk thinks orbit is the fastest way to scale compute. Google also plans prototype satellites by 2027.
⚡ Elon Musk’s xAI is starting to run nearly 50 gas turbines at its Mississippi AI data center under a loophole. Local groups say the emissions are worsening air quality.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: AI chip startup Fractile raised $220M to build faster AI inference hardware, entering the race against Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia still holds a massive $5.49T market cap and 96 GF Score.
NEW EMPOWERED AI TOOLS
🎙️ Memoket Gem is an all-day AI wearable that captures meetings, calls, coffee chats, and decisions on the go. 50 free spots now!
📊 Latitude traces every Claude Code session & sees where it burns tokens. One command to install, free, your traces stay in your account.
🧩 CraftBot is a brand-new system that lets general AI agent build, import, or evolve custom apps/dashboards that live inside itself.
💻 Googlebook is a new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Keep an eye for more updates before the devices launch this fall.
AI BREAKTHROUGH
For the first time, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in the number of verified business customers, according to May 2026 data from Ramp. It indicates that 34.4% of businesses are now paying for Anthropic services, compared to 32.3% for OpenAI.
While OpenAI maintains a lead in broader, non-technical industries, Anthropic has established a primary position in high-adoption sectors:
Finance: High demand for precision and context window size.
Technology: Driven by the integration of Claude Code into engineering workflows.
Professional Services: Utilization of tools like Claude Cowork for complex document analysis.
Ramp economists suggest that Anthropic’s success is the result of a deliberate "Technical-First" strategy: focusing on the needs of developers and specialized professionals before expanding into general enterprise tools.
On the OpenRouter leaderboard, Anthropic has consistently ranked above OpenAI since December 2025 as well. Anthropic’s growth is attributed to its execution on specific business needs rather than general-purpose chat.
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