🔥 Story Of The Week: OpenAI released GPT-5.1. The updated model features a warmer, more conversational style and eight customizable personality presets, signaling a major push towards more personalized and human-like AI interactions.
⭐️ Must Reads: Chinese startup Moonshot AI released an open-source model, Kimi K2 Thinking, which it claims outperforms GPT-5. Microsoft is also charting its own course, launching a "Humanist Superintelligence" team focused on serving, not replacing, humanity. In a different approach to privacy, Google launched Private AI Compute, a secure cloud platform for processing sensitive data. As AI capabilities grow, an AI-generated country song topped a Billboard chart, sparking new industry concerns.
🧰 Technology: The race to build world models is heating up as Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launched Marble, its first commercial 3D generation product. Google unleashed its powerful seventh-generation Ironwood TPU v7, immediately securing a multi-billion dollar deal with Anthropic. In a more specialized use, a new AI chatbot called CellWhisperer is transforming single-cell biology research.
📊 Business: In a major market event, SoftBank sold its entire $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia to fund its own AI ambitions. The use of AI is also creating a divide in the gaming industry, with Nexon's CEO claiming universal adoption while indie studios push back. Meanwhile, Apple's frugal AI strategy of licensing models for $1 billion a year is winning investor approval, even as competitors spend billions on infrastructure.
📝 Policy: The EU is considering a major overhaul of its GDPR privacy law to make it easier for companies to access data for AI training. As data use grows, Wikipedia is now asking AI companies to pay for its content as bot traffic surges and human visits decline. The UK is also taking action, introducing a new law to test AI models for their ability to create child abuse content.
⚡ Startups: Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly leaving to launch a startup focused on world models. The hardware market is also seeing new challengers, with startup Tsavorite securing $100 million in pre-orders for its composable AI chiplets. The AI coding market continues to expand as well, with startup Lovable surging to nearly 8 million users by targeting non-technical users.
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