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Top249: Netflix partners with NASA | Zuckerberg's Superintelligence Labs | Siri and OpenAI

Top249: Netflix partners with NASA | Zuckerberg's Superintelligence Labs | Siri and OpenAI

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July 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

1st July 2025

NASA and Netflix have partnered to bring live rocket launches, International Space Station footage, spacewalks, and mission coverage directly to Netflix subscribers this summer—ad-free and included in standard plans.
Available globally while continuing to stream on NASA’s own platforms, the deal aims to engage a broader audience with real-time science programming.
With Netflix’s massive reach, the collaboration brings space exploration content into living rooms worldwide, inspiring new generations.

Meta has formed a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang (ex‑Scale AI) and Nat Friedman, aiming to build frontier AI systems.
The company has recruited more than 11 top-tier AI talent from institutions like OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic, offering compensation packages in the eight-figure range.
Zuckerberg’s lab is set to begin R&D on next-generation AI models within the year, signaling a major escalation in Meta’s AI ambitions.

Apple is exploring the integration of third-party large language models—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude—into Siri’s next major update.
Initial testing favors Claude for its performance within Apple’s system; the move follows internal restructuring and delayed rollout timelines for the new Siri.
Although still in development and not yet consumer-ready, Apple’s LLM Siri effort underscores growing openness to outside partnerships amid lagging internal progress.

Peter Thiel asserts that without significant breakthroughs beyond AI, tech is stagnating, with advances remaining concentrated in software rather than hardware or infrastructure.
He acknowledges AI’s short-term boost—potentially adding around 1% GDP growth per year—but emphasizes that solving physical-world challenges like energy and manufacturing will require broader innovation.
Thiel calls for coordinated investments in hard-tech—spanning materials, robotics, and energy—to meaningfully reinvigorate global productivity.

Analysts forecast that China could command 30% of global semiconductor foundry capacity by 2030, overtaking Taiwan and South Korea.
The rapid rise is fuelled by government-led investment in local fabs and manufacturing capacity, despite U.S. sanctions and export restrictions.
Most of China’s output will still focus on mature node technology, posing questions about its ability to lead in advanced chip production.

Cybersecurity and SASE platform Cato Networks raised $359 million in a Series G round, boosting its valuation to $4.8 billion.
The funds will be used to scale its AI-based network security solutions and expand globally, with no immediate plans for an IPO.
This round positions Cato as a strong competitor in the cloud-first enterprise security market amid rising global demand for secure remote access.

Till next time.