🔥 Story Of The Week: European researchers have developed an AI model that can forecast risk for over 1,000 diseases up to 20 years in advance. The model uses health records and lifestyle data, signaling a potential shift towards proactive, preventive healthcare.
⭐️ Must Reads: Meta unveiled its new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, a major step in its wearable AI ambitions. OpenAI and Microsoft have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to revise their partnership, a key step in OpenAI's restructuring. This comes as Google's Gemini AI continued to show exceptional reasoning skills, achieving a gold medal performance at the ICPC World Finals. DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis emphasized that 'learning how to learn' is now the crucial skill.
🧰 Technology: OpenAI launched GPT-5-Codex, a specialized model to advance AI-powered coding. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is tackling a core AI problem, releasing research on eliminating randomness to create more consistent models. Google unveiled VaultGemma, an AI model that uses differential privacy to protect user data.
📊 Business: AI app race saw a major shift as Google's Gemini, boosted by its 'Nano Banana' image editor, surpassed ChatGPT on the App Store. Apple also made moves, unveiling its redesigned iOS 26 ahead of the iPhone 17 launch. AI's impact on the workforce continues, with freelance platform Fiverr laying off 30% of its staff as it pivots to an 'AI-first' strategy.
📝 Policy: The conflict between publishers and AI companies continues with Penske Media is now suing Google over its AI-generated search summaries. Hollywood studios have also filed a joint lawsuit against Chinese AI startup MiniMax for copyright infringement. The US-China tech tensions also intensified, with China officially banning its major tech firms from purchasing Nvidia's AI chips.
⚡ Startups: AI robotics startup Figure secured over $1 billion, pushing its valuation to $39 billion. AI inference chip maker Groq also raised $750 million. Meanwhile, OpenAI is looking to foster the next generation, launching 'Grove,' a mentorship program for early-stage AI founders.
