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AI Daily Brief — 13 June 2025

Geopolitics intruded directly on the AI markets. Israel’s predawn strikes on Iran kicked off the Twelve-Day War. The Meta-Scale AI deal triggered same-day customer flight from Google. And reports surfaced that OpenAI had begun using Google Cloud TPUs for inference — the first time OpenAI relied on non-NVIDIA silicon at production scale.

Top stories

  • Israel launches Operation Rising Lion against Iran. Early hours of Jun 13. IDF struck dozens of Iranian nuclear facilities, military bases and command nodes. Five waves: 200+ jets, 330+ munitions, ~100 targets (Natanz, Fordow, Hamadan, Isfahan, Parchin). Top IRGC chief Hossein Salami, armed-forces chief Mohammed Bagheri, IRGC aerospace commander Hajizadeh and several nuclear scientists killed. Markets reacted with oil spike and broad tech sell pressure. via Wikipedia
  • Meta seals $14.3B Scale AI deal, hires Alexandr Wang for superintelligence push. 49% non-voting stake; Scale at over $29B. Wang leads Meta’s new superintelligence effort while remaining on Scale’s board; CSO Jason Droege named interim CEO. via TechCrunch
  • Google plans to cut Scale AI ties — biggest customer flees. Google, Scale AI’s largest customer at roughly $200M planned spend in 2025 for human-labeled Gemini training data, planned to split from Scale immediately after the Meta deal. Google had already begun talks with Scale rivals that week. via Reuters
  • OpenAI-Google Cloud TPU deal surfaces — first non-NVIDIA chips at scale. Reports landed in the news cycle that OpenAI had begun leasing Google Cloud TPUs to serve growing ChatGPT inference load — the first time OpenAI relied on non-NVIDIA silicon in large-scale production. Inference is ~half of OpenAI’s ~$40B annual compute spend; the post-exclusivity window with Microsoft enabled the move alongside Oracle and CoreWeave.
  • Reddit v. Anthropic suit lands in mainstream press. Reddit’s complaint accusing Anthropic of scraping ‘millions, if not billions’ of posts without a license to train Claude — citing 100,000+ unauthorized requests and verbatim regurgitation examples — dominated AI legal coverage. Reddit seeking permanent injunction plus statutory and actual damages. via CBS
  • Apple WWDC25 closes — AI shortfall narrative hardens. Coverage on the closing day framed Liquid Glass UI as the headline while Apple Intelligence underdelivered: real breakthroughs reportedly pushed to 2026, with Apple opening on-device models to developers and leaning on OpenAI integration plus live translation as stopgaps.

Who shipped

Israel shipped a kinetic operation. Meta + Scale AI shipped the closing announcement. OpenAI diversified silicon. Google and OpenAI pulled customer relationships from Scale.

Open-source pulse

No major open-weights drops dated Jun 13. The week’s big open releases (Magistral Jun 10, Qwen3-Embedding Jun 6) kept circulating.

Money, infra & hardware

The OpenAI-Google TPU report frames Q3 2025’s compute story: Microsoft’s exclusivity window has ended, and OpenAI is using Oracle, CoreWeave and now Google to expand inference capacity. AMD’s Helios push from Thursday lands in the same context.

Quiet corners

No major Anthropic or Google model release. ChatGPT outage post-mortem still pending — independent breakdowns pointed to routing-layer nodes hitting memory limits, pod health-check failures and traffic throttling, echoing the March 2025 Cosmos DB incident.

By the numbers

  • 200+ / 330+ / ~100 — IDF jets / munitions / targets Day 1
  • $14.3B / 49% / $29B+ — Meta-Scale deal / share / valuation
  • ~$200M — Google’s now-abandoned Scale annual contract
  • ~half of ~$40B — OpenAI inference share of compute spend
  • Most-mentioned company: Meta / Scale AI

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 13 June 2025.