• Google acquires Windsurf ¨, SpaceX funds xAI ¨, vibe coding interviews ¨¨

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    BIG TECH & STARTUPS

    GOOGLE HIRES WINDSURF CEO VARUN MOHAN, OTHE=
    RS IN $2.4 BILLION AI
    TALENT DEAL (3 MINUTE READ) [9]=20

    Google has s=
    igned an agreement to hire Varum Mohan, the co-founder of
    AI coding start=
    up, Windsurf, and other senior Windsurf research and
    development employee=
    s. Google will not invest in Windsurf, but it will
    receive a nonexclusive=
    license to certain Windsurf technology.
    Windsurf is free to license its =
    technology to others. Google is paying
    $2.4 billion for the deal. Windsur=
    f had been in talks with OpenAI for
    a $3 billion acquisition deal, but th=
    e finalization period expired.=20

    SPACEX TO INVEST $2 BILLION INTO ELON=
    MUSK'S XAI (3 MINUTE READ) [10]


    SpaceX agreed to invest $2 billio=
    n into xAI as part of xAI's $5
    billion equity fundraise announced by Morg=
    an Stanley last month. This
    is not the first time Elon Musk has mobilized=
    his business empire to
    boost the AI startup. More business partnerships =
    between SpaceX and
    xAI are likely in the future. SpaceX recently had more=
    than $3 billion
    in cash on hand - the company rarely makes investments i=
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    LUCID ABSOLUTELY SMASHES GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR THE LONGEST EV=

    DRIVE ON A SINGLE CHARGE (4 MINUTE READ) [11]=20

    Lucid Motors just s=
    et a Guinness World Record for the longest journey
    by an electric car on =
    a single charge using its Air Grand Touring car,
    covering a distance of a=
    round 768 miles. The previous record of 649
    miles was achieved by the Mer=
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    Motors' EV traveled between St. Mo=
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    Germany through highways, secondary roads,=
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    ll-wheel drive electric
    motors with a combined system output of 611 kW (8=
    19 horsepower) and
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    Google DeepMind has released an open-source Py=
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    applications with large language models. GenAI Processors pr=
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    write res=
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    I MESSED UP M=
    Y GOOGLE PM VIBE CODING INTERVIEW (2 MINUTE READ) [14]=20

    A Reddit user=
    attended the second round of their Google Product
    Management interview a=
    nd was surprised when it turned out to be a vibe
    coding interview. This c=
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    underperform - they had the knowledge,=
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    roles should take this post as a warning - be pre=
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    interviewing for an L5 PM role that had a strong focus on AI/ML. =


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    leave anytime soo=
    n despite being mired in Apple's biggest crisis in
    years. Cook's longtime=
    No. 2, Jeff Williams, just announced plans to
    retire, so there's no imme=
    diate successor ready to take the helm, and
    there haven't been signs that=
    Cook has begun the process of grooming a
    replacement. The board also doe=
    sn't feel the need to make a change -
    while shares are down 16% this year=
    , they've surged about 1,500% since
    he became CEO in 2011. While Cook is =
    staying, the company has started
    a broad management shake-up - roughly ha=
    lf of Cook's direct reports
    could depart within the next few years.=20
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    THE WINDSURF DYNAMICS (=
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    The Windsurf founders and board might have actua=
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