🔥 Story Of The Week: Google DeepMind unveils its 'nano banana' AI model, revolutionizing image editing capabilities within Gemini.
⭐️ Must Reads: Anthropic reaches historic settlement in AI copyright lawsuit, Apple explores partnership with Google, Google reveals 33x drop in AI energy consumption and Zuckerberg's potential involvement in Musk's OpenAI takeover bid.
🧰 Technology: AI breakthrough enables robots to navigate without maps, new study shows ChatGPT is influencing human speech patterns and Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome with notable security risks.
📊 Business: Meta inks a $10B cloud deal with Google, Apple explores acquiring AI startups Mistral & Perplexity and TikTok lays off hundreds of moderators.
📝 Policy: Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over anticompetitive concerns, OpenAI faces lawsuit over teen's suicide and Nvidia in talks with the US government for new AI chip for China.
⚡ Startups: Anthropic nears $10B funding deal amid high investor interest, OpenAI's restructuring is delayed and Databricks acquires Tecton to boost AI agent capabilities.