Mon. 07/07 – What Did I Miss?

Catching you up on the great Zuckerberg AI recruitment drive. Clueing you in to the great datacenter buildout goldrush that is, again, all about AI. TikTok is about to force everybody to use a new version of their app. And are the unicorns coming back?

Links:

• Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans (Semafor)
• Zuck's Eleven (Spyglass)
• CoreWeave to Buy Core Scientific in $9 Billion Stock Deal (Bloomberg)
• US industrial groups pivot to data centres amid AI boom (FT)
• TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale (The Information)
• As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons (Fortune)
• At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far (TechCrunch)