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Three big AI copyright updates this week alone. Tracking it all is getting almost impossible! That’s why @BrigitteTousi and I built this interactive tracker to keep you up to date (Prototyped in minutes with DeepSite!) https://huggingface.co/spaces/fdaudens/ai-copyright-lawsuits

ai-copyright-lawsuits – a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens https://huggingface.co/spaces/fdaudens/ai-copyright-lawsuits

In my opinion, Meta has been the most impactful big tech company in AI thanks to the open release of Llama that changed the field and helped them catch up to the frontier in record times! I suspect they’ll be able to 100x their impact thanks to the addition of @alexandr_wang”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1940048909989986483

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai/

Per Wired, Meta is poaching researchers with packages up to $300M over 4 years (with 1st yr comp >$100m), and that they’ve made 10 such offers to people at OpenAI. For context, this is roughly what Meta’s execs get paid per year: • CFO: $23.5M • COO: $25.5M • CTO: $23.5M •”” / X https://x.com/tanayj/status/1940137574141694046

RT @natfriedman: Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won’t happe…”” / X https://x.com/ggerganov/status/1940704352534254019

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/

SCOOP: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. “”Missionaries will beat mercenaries,”” Altman wrote in an internal memo to OpenAI researchers. WIRED has obtained it: https://x.com/WIRED/status/1940105225525657890

Thrilled to be joining @Meta! Superintelligence is now in sight 🚀”” / X https://x.com/TrapitBansal/status/1939823632152502311

Hugging Face is offering a Free Course on Model Context Protocol (MCP)! This Free course shows you how to build AI apps that connect to external data and tools using the latest MCP standards. – 100% FREE – Earn a certificate of completion Find the course link 👇 https://x.com/python_spaces/status/1934245279571607643

The real star of the show is the (Baidu) 21B A3B, ~30% smaller than Qwen3 30B A3B and better on most benchmarks! 🔥 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1939584854045466791

Teaching Data Literacy with Hugging Face’s AI Sheets https://huggingface.co/blog/ParulPandey/teaching-data-literacy-to-kids-with-hugging-faces

hugging face on apple watch – gotta know what’s trending, NOW! https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1938987514909319264

Count me as an official fan of @measure_plan’s work https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1938327489220129083

Teaching data literacy to kids using 🤗 tools? This warm piece by @pandeyparul shows how to use AI Sheets for fun projects. Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩‍💻👦‍💻 https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1939680383051722841

Been a legendary run chat, we’re closing down hugging chat (but will be back with a bang soon!) Started in April 2023 – it’s served over a MILLION users, with constantly serving the latest and greatest LLMs all for FREE. It was a brilliant experiment to show the community that https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1940105535505764427

Over 5,000 MLX models have been uploaded to Hugging Face! 10,000 wen? https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1939880107906412963

RT @julien_c: I have bittersweet news to share. 😢 We are closing down huggingchat for now. Huggingchat was launched in April 2023 when Ch…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1940090675732873690

Flux Kontext just dropped on @huggingface and it’s 🔥 https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1938325622725530040

FLUX.1 Kontext just landed on the Hub https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1938258297381130565

visual reasoning is now in @huggingface transformers 🔥 GLM-4.1V-Thinking is just released and merged into transformers, we gave it a vibe test run 🤠 it’s very good, comes with 64k context length and MIT license 😍 it supports 4k image tokens and any aspect ratio as well! https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1940358096552902675

Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Effort, More Hires – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/zuckerberg-announces-meta-superintelligence-effort-more-hires?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MTMwNDAwMiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxOTA4ODAyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWU9FUVZEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNDZBMzg1RkE3NTA0NTlCQTEzQ0MxNEZCRUU4ODRERiJ9.RDXPyggRds9gDEyxFmIQ_XuH1A7Z34tTAPUU42bc1Q8&leadSource=uverify%20wall&embedded-checkout=true

I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards superintelligence 🚀 https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1939867404252979291

Sorry to hype — but having a few friends at OpenAI makes it hard not to hear how wild their open-source model dropping next month is. It won’t run on a phone, but let’s just say it edges out one of the models in the ChatGPT dropdown. Meta’s gonna need some time to catch up.”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1939462191302033757

DAMN! DeepSeek R1T2 – 200% faster than R1-0528 & 20% faster than R1 🔥 Significantly better than R1 on GPQA & AIME 24 made via Assembly of Experts w/ DS V3, R1 & R1-0528 MIT license – available on Hugging Face 🤗 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1940536684061643239

🚀 Sparse Neural Retrievers in Sentence Transformers v5 @huggingface just released version 5 of Sentence Transformers, with full support for training and fine-tuning sparse neural retrievers, so you can bring your hybrid search to the next level. This release gives you https://x.com/qdrant_engine/status/1940052377039413474

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