Meta's non-engineering teams lost more than 10% of staff in recent cuts, and Integrity teams were already understaffed before the layoffs began. The original deepdive drew enough internal response to warrant a follow-up, with sources inside Meta confirming the accuracy of the reporting and adding new clarifications worth reading in full.
The US government is restricting Anthropic's new model, Fable, to US citizens only. That decision has a concrete geopolitical consequence: developers and companies outside the US will turn to capable open models, most of which originate from China. Restricting access to American frontier models does not slow AI adoption globally, it redirects it toward Chinese alternatives.
SpaceX went public, Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold, and SpaceX acquired Cursor, which had already acquired Continue. That chain puts SpaceX directly in the coding assistant market against Anthropic and OpenAI. Elsewhere: the Gemini lead defected to OpenAI, Microsoft is reportedly evaluating DeepSeek as an OpenAI replacement, Epic Games released an open source version control system, and new research confirms LLMs amplify existing expertise rather than level the playing field.
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