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Reports Meta hiring five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab; notes some defectors (Zoph, Metz, Schoenholz) instead returned to OpenAI, and that the IP these hires produce will not be open-sourced.

“Meta hires five Thinking Machines Lab founders, including a reported $1.5 billion engineer.”

Details the trade-based money-laundering mechanism: cartel sawmills falsify documents to launder timber, and proceeds finance trade with Chinese fentanyl-precursor manufacturers, a natural-resource laundering scheme bridging logging and synthetic-opioid supply.

“Cartel-run sawmills move $172m of illegal Mexican timber a year, laundering proceeds into trade with Chinese precursor makers.”

Details the data behind the raise, age reversal observed in old human liver cells via epigenetic reprogramming that rewrites gene-expression markers without altering DNA, and how it pulled NewLimit's clinical timeline forward by years against its own decade-plus forecast.

“NewLimit snags $435M after seeing age reversal in human liver cells.”

Notes the $230bn valuation and the strategic role of Nvidia and Cisco, and the later twist of xAI leasing Colossus 1 output to rival Anthropic for ~$1.25bn/month.

“Musk's AI startup hits a $230B valuation with a massive new raise.”