The Daily AI Briefing - 09/07/2025
Welcome to The Daily AI Briefing! Your daily dose of the most significant developments in artificial intelligence, tech innovations, and digital transformation. I'm your host, bringing you the latest insights and analysis on how AI is reshaping our world. Today, we've got a packed lineup of breaking news and developments that you need to know about. In today's briefing, we'll cover Apple's talent exodus as Meta poaches their AI leadership, a major teachers' union initiative with tech giants to bring AI to classrooms, a practical tutorial for using Google Gemini in your workday, and a new filmmaker-focused AI video tool from Moonvalley. We'll also highlight trending AI tools and job opportunities in the sector. Let's start with some major talent movement in Silicon Valley. Meta has successfully poached Ruoming Pang, Apple's head of foundation AI models, with a compensation package reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. Pang led Apple's 100-person foundation models group, which was crucial to developing Apple Intelligence and next-generation Siri features. This departure isn't happening in isolation – Bloomberg reports several engineers from Apple's AI team are planning exits to Meta or other competitors. This comes amid internal tensions at Apple after leadership explored replacing in-house AI models with options from OpenAI or Anthropic. Pang will join Meta's Superintelligence division led by Alexandr Wang, alongside other recent hires including OpenAI's Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic's Anton Bakhtin. In education news, the American Federation of Teachers has formed a significant partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to create a national AI training hub. This initiative aims to prepare 400,000 educators to integrate AI technology into classrooms across the United States. The academy will offer workshops, online courses, and professional development, with its flagship campus in New York City and plans to scale nationally. OpenAI is committing $10 million in funding and technical support, with Microsoft and Anthropic also contributing resources. Teachers will gain access to priority support, API credits, and early education-focused AI features, with an emphasis on accessibility for high-needs districts. For those looking to boost productivity with AI, Google has released a practical tutorial on using Gemini AI to prepare for meetings. The workflow involves analyzing your calendar, reviewing past emails, and researching participants to generate comprehensive briefings before every call. The process starts by enabling Gemini Google Workspace in settings to connect Gmail and Calendar. Users can then ask Gemini to check their calendar for upcoming meetings with participant details, search Gmail for previous conversations with specific contacts, and even suggest strategic questions based on past interactions. After meetings, Gemini can draft follow-up email templates based on discussed talking points. In creative technology, Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has released Marey – a filmmaker-focused AI video model. What sets this tool apart is that it's trained exclusively on licensed content, helping creators avoid the copyright issues plaguing other AI startups. The model gives directors precise control over camera moves, character motion, backgrounds, and lighting, integrating directly into VFX workflows. Pricing starts at $14.99 monthly for 100 credits, scaling up to $149.99 for 1,000 credits, with each five-second clip costing roughly $1-2 to render. Moonvalley has raised over $100 million to date and launched Marey alongside Asteria Film Co., an AI animation studio they acquired. Among trending AI tools worth noting are Hunyuan 3D-PolyGen for professional 3D outputs, Proactor's context-aware AI teammate, Emergent 2.0's agentic coding platform, and Hugging Face's SmolLM3 multilingual reasoner. For job seekers, notable opportunities include positions at Dataiku, Harvey, Meta, and Groq. A
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