PLUS: Switzerland launches national AI model Apertus & Claude gets memory built for Work. Albania appoints AI cabinet minister, Meta's secret TBD Lab wars.
PLUS: ByteDance launches Nano Banana challenger & Oracle's OpenAI deal makes Ellison richest. Replit raises $250M launches Agent 3, NotebookLM adds student features.
PLUS: Claude's new feature makes it the leader in Excel creation & Meta pays $140M for Black Forest Labs AI. Microsoft partners with Anthropic over OpenAI, Nvidia unveils long-context inference GPU.
PLUS: MIT startup unveils brain-reading wearable device & Google cuts Veo 3 pricing by half. OpenAI faces California restructuring opposition campaign, Databricks confirms new $100B valuation.
PLUS: Anthropic pays $1.5B copyright settlement & Alibaba releases 1 trillion parameter model. Google launches EmbeddingGemma for mobile AI, OpenAI projects $115B cash burn.
OpenAI challenges LinkedIn with AI Hiring Platform, Anthropic's $183B valuation with huge $13B funding round, Apple to launch AI-Search in Siri, Mistral adds transparent Memories with Citations & Meta integrating OpenAI and Google AI models.
PLUS: DeepSeek developing self-improving AI agent & Atlassian acquires Browser Company for $610M. Perplexity launches student program with free Pro access, NotebookLM expands Video Overviews to 80 languages.
PLUS: Mistral raises €2B at $14B valuation & ChatGPT adds conversation monitoring features. AI adoption cuts junior hiring 22%, Tesla reveals next-gen Optimus with Grok.
PLUS: OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1B & Mistral adds transparent Memories to Le Chat. Apple loses 4 AI researchers, Alibaba unveils domestic AI chip.
PLUS: Salesforce replaces 4,000 support roles with AI & OpenAI plans massive data center expansion in India. AI helps paralyzed patients control robots, Tencent releases translation model.
PLUS: Anthropic's Claude Code web version & Meta's superintelligence team faces early departures. ByteDance releases Nanobanana opensource competitor, New AI stethoscope spots hidden heart problems.
Gemini 2.5 Image Nano-Banana breaks the internet, OpenAI launches GPT Realtime APIs, GPT-5 Pro creates a new math proof, Anthropic finds GPT-4o concerning behavior & a16z updates its top GenAI apps list.
