Meta And Google AI At Risk

Uber Questions AI Value

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Altiam Kabir
May 26, 2026

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AI PlanetX

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Meta and Google AI guardrails stripped; Uber flags rising AI costs; Grok Build launches in beta as a terminal-based coding agent with parallel subagents.

Inside This Edition: 💎

  • Hottest AI News

  • Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • Top AI & Tech News

  • AI Art Spotlight

  • Prompt of the Day: Build LinkedIn Personal Brand

  • Featured AI Video

  • Course of the Day: OpenAI Codex Masterclass

Hottest AI News

Meta

Meta And Google AI Guardrails Stripped In Minutes

A Financial Times investigation says Meta and Google’s open AI models can be “decensored” in minutes. The issue is not one bad prompt. Once model weights are public, safety controls can be removed and shared at scale.

Details:

  • FT and AI safety group Alice removed guardrails from Meta’s Llama 3.3 in under 10 minutes using a public GitHub tool, minimal code, and no specialist hardware. The changed model answered things it once refused

  • Google’s Gemma was affected too. FT says a modified Gemma 3 answered harmful bio, malware, and child safety related prompts. The tool creator also claimed Gemma 4 was stripped within 90 minutes

  • The creator said the tool has made 3,500+ decensored models with 13M downloads. Google called this a known open model challenge, while Meta declined to comment

Closed systems are harder to alter because weights stay private. But as open models get closer to frontier systems, release safety becomes the real AI race.

Last week Viktor wrote a brief, built a landing page, and opened a pull request.

Last week, Viktor wrote a campaign brief, built a landing page, opened a pull request, generated a board-ready PDF from live Stripe data, and sent a follow-up email to a churned customer. All from Slack. Same colleague that also pulls your reports and monitors your dashboards. 5,700+ teams. 3,000+ integrations.

Uber

Uber Says AI Spending Is Getting Hard To Justify

Uber is running into a simple AI problem: usage is growing quicker than proof. Its COO says AI spending is getting harder to justify because heavy token use is not yet clearly turning into better customer features.

Details:

  • Uber burned through its 2026 Claude Code budget by April. The issue is not whether engineers are using AI. The issue is whether all that AI activity is producing useful, shipped products

  • Andrew Macdonald said there is still no clear link between more AI tokens and more consumer value. That matters because AI tools can feel cheap to users, while companies pay the real bill

  • Uber is still financially strong, with Q1 gross bookings up and operating income scaling. But the company is also using slower hiring to help offset rising AI costs inside business

This is the AI reality check: companies do not just need more AI usage. They need AI spend that clearly improves products, margins, or speed.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • Reelify (Life-time Deal): Mac tool that uses local AI to find viral moments in long videos and turn them into vertical clips for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts

  • Willow Scribe: Writing assistant that turns spoken ideas into polished messages in your own voice, working inside common apps and rewriting selected text in place [F-R-E-E]

  • Brew: AI email marketing tool that builds on-brand campaigns and automations from plain-English prompts and lets you send from Brew or export to your ESP [F-R-E-E to Try]

  • Manus Scheduled Tasks 2.0: Runs recurring work in the right place, with context—continuing the same task, supporting background actions in Manus web apps, and giving clearer run visibility [F-R-E-E]

  • SelectPrism: Streamlines hiring by automating early candidate screening, so teams can quickly identify top applicants and focus on closing the best fits

What 2,000 SaaS Companies Reveal About Growth in 2026

Is your growth in-line with your peers in B2B SaaS & AI? 

Benchmark yourself against actual billings data for Maxio’s 2000+ global customers.

Key takeaways from the report: 

  • Average growth across 2,000 companies

  • Growth by revenue band 

  • AI-led vs AI-enhanced. Who performed better?

Top AI & Tech News

  • Grok Build launches in early beta as a terminal-based coding agent with plan/review/approve workflows, support for existing dev tools, parallel subagents, headless mode, and ACP

  • Cybersecurity job postings rose 11% year over year in Q1 2026 as AI-generated code increased vulnerabilities, making it one of the few job categories growing because of AI

  • China is imposing stricter travel rules on top AI researchers and executives, requiring official approval to leave the country to protect key AI work and limit foreign influence

  • Sam Altman said AI has not caused the expected white-collar job losses and that human interaction will keep many jobs from being replaced

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Product Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

High-end advertising illustration of [product/subject], vibrant premium color palette, clean composition, soft studio lighting, modern commercial style, ultra polished, minimal yet impactful, brand-focused visual.

Model: ChatGPT Images 2.0

Prompt of the Day

7 Prompt Ideas to Build LinkedIn Personal Brand

A complete LinkedIn personal brand prompt collection: audit your profile, sharpen positioning, rewrite your headline and About, plan 30 days of content, create post templates, build a daily networking routine, and set up lead generation that turns attention into clients.

Featured AI Video

Google Omni vs Seedance 2.0 vs Kling 3.0 | Full Comparison

AI Course of the Day

OpenAI Codex Masterclass

This course provides an overview of OpenAI Codex as a software engineering agent and shows how it can support developers across the full workflow, from writing and reviewing code to running tests, exploring codebases, and automating recurring tasks.