In today’s newsletter ⬇️

🧠 China is having another DeepSeek moment - Manus AI.

🔍 Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI gets a mixed ruling.

🏛️ Authors' AI copyright lawsuit against Meta moves forward.

💰 9 US AI startups have raised $100M+ in 2025 already.

🇨🇳 SenseTime boosts AI cloud with DeepSeek integration.

News from The WEST 👈:

• 🔍 Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI Gets Mixed Ruling

  Elon Musk lost his bid for a preliminary injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit structure, but the federal judge expressed concerns about the company's planned conversion. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers noted that "significant and irreparable harm is incurred" when public money funds a nonprofit's conversion to for-profit status, and offered an expedited trial in fall 2025.

  💡 Why It Matters:

  The ruling casts a shadow of regulatory uncertainty over OpenAI's restructuring plans, which must be completed by 2026 to avoid some recent capital converting to debt. This legal battle highlights growing tensions between AI safety and profit motives in the industry.

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• 🏛️ Authors' AI Copyright Lawsuit Against Meta Moves Forward

  A federal judge has allowed a significant AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to proceed, though part of the suit was dismissed. Authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates allege that Meta violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI models without permission and removed copyright information to hide the infringement.

  💡 Why It Matters:

  This case could set a major precedent for how AI companies use copyrighted content for training. Court filings already suggest Mark Zuckerberg personally approved training Llama on copyrighted works, making this one of several high-profile AI copyright battles currently moving through the courts.

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• 💰9 US AI Startups Have Raised $100M+ in 2025 Already

  The AI funding boom shows no signs of slowing, with nine US-based AI companies raising rounds of $100 million or more in just the first two months of 2025. Anthropic leads the pack with a massive $3.5 billion Series E round that valued the company at $61.5 billion. Other major raises include Together AI ($305M), Lambda ($480M), and Harvey ($300M).

  💡 Why It Matters:

  Following 2024's record year with 49 mega-rounds, 2025 is on pace to potentially surpass it. These investments signal continued confidence in AI's growth potential, with healthcare, legal tech, and infrastructure startups attracting particularly significant capital despite broader tech industry uncertainty.

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News from The EAST 👉:

• 🇨🇳 SenseTime Boosts AI Cloud with DeepSeek Integration

  SenseTime, a leading AI software company, has announced the integration of its DeepSeek Enterprise module into SenseCore, the company's AI cloud platform. This integration aims to improve the platform's performance, stability, and efficiency for businesses and developers. Additionally, SenseTime launched LazyLLM, an open-source framework designed to ease AI application development.

  💡 Why It Matters:

  This strategic integration positions SenseTime to compete more effectively in the enterprise AI market while providing developers with streamlined tools through their open-source framework. The move signals China's continued push to build comprehensive AI infrastructure.

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• 🇦🇪 UAE-based Healthtech Firm Klaim Raises $26M for AI Payments

  Healthcare payment solutions provider Klaim has secured US$10 million in Series A equity funding, plus an additional US$16 million in financing. Founded in 2019 and based in Abu Dhabi, Klaim employs AI and data analytics to facilitate medical insurance claim payments for healthcare providers across the MENA region.

  💡 Why It Matters:

  The funding will fuel Klaim's expansion into the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and other regions while enhancing its AI technology for faster healthcare claims processing. This represents a significant advancement in addressing payment challenges in the regional healthcare sector.

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🧠 Latest AI Hacks to Maximize ChatGPT Responses in 2025

ChatGPT continues to evolve with major improvements in context memory, reasoning accuracy, and voice capabilities. The article highlights 7 powerful hacks to get better results, including creating specific prompts, using multi-step requests, leveraging system messages, and combining ChatGPT with other AI tools like Canva and Gamma for enhanced productivity.

💡 Key Intel:

ChatGPT Hack #1: Use ultra-specific prompts with detailed context and instructions.

ChatGPT Hack #2: Break complex requests into multi-step prompts for better results.

ChatGPT Hack #3: Leverage system messages to make ChatGPT think like an expert.

ChatGPT Hack #4: Combine ChatGPT with tools like Canva and Gamma for complete workflows.

💡 Why It Matters:
With 400 million weekly users relying on ChatGPT for content creation, research, and customer service, knowing how to use it effectively can dramatically increase productivity. The right prompting techniques can help you get responses that are 92% more effective than basic queries.

🇨🇳 China is having another DeepSeek moment with Manus AI.

China has launched another AI breakthrough with Manus—a general AI agent that can execute complex tasks end-to-end. Unlike traditional chatbots, Manus can plan vacations, write and deploy code, generate stock reports, and automate business processes. Beta codes are selling for up to $7,000 on secondary markets as the tech community scrambles for access.

💡 Key Intel:

Manus uses a three-agent system: Planning, Execution, and Verification.

It crushed the GAIA benchmark with an 86.5% score, far ahead of competitors.

Created by a low-profile Chinese team led by entrepreneur Xiao Hong.

Operates entirely in the cloud, raising questions about data privacy.

💡 Why It Matters:
Manus outperformed OpenAI's best models on the GAIA benchmark with an 86.5% score (compared to DeepResearch's 67.9%). China is shifting from conversational AI to autonomous execution agents—potentially leapfrogging Western competitors in the process.

🚀 Trending AI Tools & Resources

Manus - The breakthrough AI agent from China that can execute tasks end-to-end, from booking travel to analyzing stocks.

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Notebook LLM - The intelligent coding companion that writes, explains, and debugs code right in your notebook environment.

Google AI Studio - Build and customize AI models without deep technical expertise using Google's powerful Gemini platform.

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