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OpenAI

OpenAI Unveils gpt-realtime Voice Model

Realtime API exits beta, adds image input, SIP calling, and advanced safety.

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OpenAI CFO: GPU Demand, $40B Funding

Sarah Friar highlights compute challenges, $10B ARR, and major partnerships.

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OpenAI Codex: GPT-5 Powers IDE, GitHub

New IDE extension, GitHub code reviews, and CLI—now with GPT-5.

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OpenAI’s GPT-4b micro: Protein Engineering

OpenAI and Retro Bio triple hit rates for stem cell reprogramming proteins in 2025.

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OpenAI: Bubble Fears, Trillion-Dollar Bets

Altman warns of overhype as OpenAI eyes trillion-dollar data centers in 2025.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT: New Safety Protocols

GPT-5 launch cuts unsafe responses by 25% in mental health emergencies.

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ChatGPT Tops a16z GenAI Rankings

OpenAI's ChatGPT leads 2025 a16z Top 100 GenAI Apps, with Gemini AI trailing at 12% web traffic.

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OpenAI Expands in India

4x ChatGPT user growth drives new office, major investment planned in 2025.

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OpenAI’s 4-Part AI Product Playbook

Miqdad Jaffer urges founders to build moats beyond APIs, stress-test AI economics, and differentiate fast.

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OpenAI’s GPT-6: Adaptive Memory Focus

Sam Altman details GPT-6’s memory, personalization, and privacy plans for 2025.

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Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: AI Editing Breakthrough

Google’s new model leads in multimodal image editing, blending, and consistency.

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Gemini prompts: 33x energy cut

Google DeepMind slashes energy and carbon per prompt by 33x/44x in 12 months.

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Google Cloud: Firestore & Gemini Upgrades

Firestore adds MongoDB compatibility; Gemini Embeddings scale for large AI apps.

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Google Translate’s AI-Powered Live Translation

AI boosts real-time accuracy and language learning in Google Translate.

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Google AI Mode: Global Agentic Search

Google expands AI-powered, personalized search with agentic features worldwide in August 2025.

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Gemini AI Transforms Pixel 10

Magic Cue, Camera Coach, and Gemini Live debut on Pixel 10, with Google leveraging Android’s scale for AI adoption.

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Google Details Gemini AI’s Eco Impact

Google claims Gemini queries use minimal energy, but researchers question water usage reporting.

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xAI

xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 Launches

Leverages GPT-4 Turbo for faster, cheaper, scalable AI applications.

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Musk’s $97.4B OpenAI Bid: Meta’s Role?

Musk sought Meta’s support for OpenAI bid; legal dispute set for March 2025.

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xAI’s Colossus and Grok 4

Grok 4 surpasses PhD benchmarks; Colossus scales to 200,000 GPUs in 2024.

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xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI

Lawsuit challenges exclusive ChatGPT integration on iPhones, claims anti-competitive harm to xAI’s Grok.

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xAI’s Grok 3 Open Sourcing Timeline

Elon Musk: Grok 3 open source in six months; Grok 2.5 now available.

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xAI’s Grok-Code-Fast-1: Fast, Affordable Coding AI

Outpaces GPT-5 in speed, supports agentic workflows, and offers low-cost API.

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Anthropic

TELUS Scales Claude AI Deployment

57,000 employees build 13,000+ AI solutions, boosting code speed 30%.

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Claude AI Transforms Curriculum Design

Educators use Claude for curriculum, custom tools, and automation in 2025.

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Claude’s Business Integrations Surge

Claude powers Alexa+, tax, and clinical report tools; 1M token context boosts adoption.

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Anthropic’s Claude Code Abused for Ransomware

August 2025: Claude Code automates extortion, Anthropic deploys new detection.

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Anthropic’s CEO: Regulation, Risks, Revenue

Dario Amodei warns of job loss, champions AI regulation, and reports $4B Claude revenue in H1 2025.

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Anthropic–OpenAI Safety Evaluation: Key Gaps

Joint tests reveal misalignment, misuse risks, and high refusal rates in Claude and GPT models (mid-2025).

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Claude for Chrome: Secure AI Browser Control?

Anthropic pilots browser AI with layered security, 11.2% attack rate.

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Anthropic’s Security Advisory Council

Bipartisan experts guide Anthropic’s AI for national security, August 2025.

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Anthropic’s $10B Raise: AI Power Play?

Anthropic targets $170B valuation, expands Claude, and intensifies global AI race.

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Anthropic’s Data Filtering Cuts AI Harm

Filtering CBRN data reduces harmful AI by 33% while preserving utility.

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Anthropic’s AI Nuclear Safeguards Initiative

Anthropic and US NNSA co-develop classifier for nuclear misuse detection, deployed on Claude AI in 2025.

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Anthropic’s Copyright Lawsuit Settlement

Judge rules Claude’s training as fair use, authors reach historic agreement.

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Microsoft

Microsoft’s VibeVoice: Multi-Speaker TTS

Open-source model generates 4-speaker, 90-min dialogues for research.

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Microsoft’s $80B AI Bet Amid OpenAI Rift

Microsoft launches in-house models, distances from OpenAI, and commits $80B annually.

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Microsoft Copilot Debuts on Samsung TVs

Voice-powered AI brings group-friendly, interactive features to 2025 Samsung TVs.

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Microsoft’s MAI Models: Copilot Shift

MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview mark Microsoft’s in-house AI push for Copilot.

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Perplexity

Perplexity’s $42.5M Publisher Revenue Model

Comet Plus shares 80% of AI search revenue with media partners, CEO calls it a new standard.

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Japanese media sue Perplexity AI

Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun seek $15M over copyright claims in Tokyo.

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Apple

Apple’s Siri AI Overhaul Delayed

Major Siri upgrade postponed to 2026 amid engineering and leadership shifts.

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Apple Eyes Mistral AI, Perplexity

Apple considers multi-billion deals for advanced AI models, shifting strategy in 2025.

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Apple’s Dual Siri AI Strategy

Apple tests in-house and external AI for Siri overhaul, with Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic under evaluation for 2026 launch.

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Apple-Google Gemini: Siri’s AI Overhaul

Apple tests Gemini AI for Siri, shifting strategy and boosting market confidence.

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Mistral

Mistral’s $1B Gulf Funding Drive

French AI leader deepens Gulf ties, launches Saba model, and targets 1.4 GW data center.

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GenAI news

Grammarly unveils eight AI agents

New writing surface targets students, professionals; rollout starts 2025.

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Test-Time Compute: AI’s New Frontier

OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 models drive global AI competition in 2025.

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Google and ChatGPT Dominate GenAI Apps

Gemini, ChatGPT lead web and mobile; Grok, Chinese apps surge in 2025.

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Stanford: GenAI Hits Young Workers

13% employment drop for US early-career workers in AI-exposed jobs since late 2022.

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DeepSeek-V3.1: Cheaper Hybrid AI Model

DeepSeek-V3.1 offers hybrid reasoning, undercuts GPT-5 pricing, and is MIT-licensed.

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Podcasts

Data Talk Podcast: Ondřej Vaněk’s agent AI journey

Adastra’s Chief AI Officer recounts his path from multi-agent research applied against pirates and LA police, through founding Blindspot Solutions, to its acquisition and Carlyle’s recent buyout.

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Legora raises $80M to lead AI law

YC-backed startup powers 10,000+ lawyers daily with AI due diligence, redlining, and research; investors include Iconiq, General Catalyst, Benchmark, and Redpoint.

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Menlo, FPV, General Catalyst VCs debate AI’s next decade

On Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Deedy Das, Nikunj Khatri, and Niko Bonatsos explored sector bets, AI tailwinds, fertility decline, synthetic data, evals, and religion’s comeback.

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Dave Plummer in Lex Fridman's Podcast

Ex-Microsoft engineer recalls building Task Manager, porting Space Cadet Pinball, and shaping Windows 95/NT after dropping out of high school and selling Amiga software.

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Andrew Ng: Agentic AI Reshapes Startups

AI-assisted coding, talent bottlenecks, and domain expertise drive transformation.

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Sequoia’s $10T AI Thesis: US Services

Sequoia projects $10T AI opportunity in US services, only 0.2% automated.

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OpenAI’s GPT-5: Model, Compute, Impact

Kevin Weil details GPT-5 launch, internal models, and $500B compute push.

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OpenAI’s OSS Model: Key Takeaways

OpenAI’s open-weights LLM joins DeepSeek, Qwen in OSS race. Analysis covers architectures, training, and performance convergence.

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All-In Podcast Debates GPT-5, AI Market

Panelists discuss GPT-5, AI market size, energy, and geopolitics.

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AI Daily Brief: Model Wars & Pixel 10

Users prefer GPT-5; Meta reshuffles AI; Pixel 10 sets new AI phone standard.

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Gemini 2.5 'Nano Banana' Breakthrough

Podcast spotlights Google's model for realistic, multi-angle image generation and editing.

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Claude 3.5: Coding Breakthrough & Ethics

Tom Brown details Claude 3.5’s coding success, ethical launch, and pragmatic safety focus.

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Ari Morcos: Data Curation Overlooked

Detology CEO stresses data quality's impact on AI, urges expert curation.

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Google Opal: No-Code AI Apps

Opal enables rapid AI app creation using Gemini models, demoed on Everyday AI Show.

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Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail

MIT study: most AI pilots flop; IgniteTech CEO’s radical AI overhaul sparks debate.

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Enterprise AI: Claude Privacy, Shadow AI

Daily AI Show debates privacy, pilot failures, and shadow AI adoption in enterprises.

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Sam Altman on OpenAI’s $20B Run Rate

Altman details GPT-6, trillion-dollar AI bets, and bubble risks in 2025.

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Latest AI Funding & Emerging Startups

Maisa AI’s $25M Seed: Auditable AI

Maisa AI targets 95% enterprise AI failure with transparent digital workers, secures $25M seed in August 2025.

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Farang’s AI: 25x Efficiency Leap?

Stockholm’s Farang raises €1.5M for novel, efficient LLMs targeting React and medical domains.

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Vibe coding

Lovable’s $4B AI Vibe Coding Surge

Swedish startup Lovable hits $4B valuation after $200M Series A, surpasses $100M ARR in eight months.

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Czech News

Seznam.cz Launches Czech AI Chat

Testing proprietary Czech language model to rival ChatGPT in local market.

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Spring Health Acquires VOS.health

Czech founders join US mental health leader; apps available until 2026.

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Local & European News

Europe’s AI Factories: Scaling Innovation

EU AI factories run at full capacity; gigafactories to follow in 2026.

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