🔥 Story Of The Week: Google launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model yet, claiming record-breaking performance and enhanced reasoning. The release includes Antigravity, a new AI-first coding environment, signaling a deeper integration into its product ecosystem.
⭐️ Must Reads: xAI released Grok 4.1 which claimed top rankings on LMArena with its enhanced creative writing. As the AI investment boom continues, Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned of 'elements of irrationality' in the market. The impact of AI tools is also being questioned, with a new study showing AI chatbots lead to shallower learning. In a major scientific advance, Japanese researchers used AI to create the first simulation of all 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
🧰 Technology: In the AI coding race, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new model capable of handling 24-hour programming tasks. Google DeepMind also showcased progress in agentic AI with SIMA 2, a game playing agent with a task completion rate of 65%. German researchers achieved a major milestone by using an AI to autonomously control a satellite in space.
📊 Business: Nvidia reported record-breaking Q3 revenue of $57 billion, as CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns of an AI market bubble. Leaked documents from OpenAI suggest massive compute costs may be exceeding revenue, raising questions about financial sustainability. To capitalize on the shift to AI search, Adobe is acquiring SEO platform Semrush for $1.9 billion.
📝 Policy: Under industry pressure, the EU is now scaling back its privacy and AI regulations, delaying rules for high-risk systems. This comes as Anthropic's CEO warned the industry must embrace transparency to avoid a regulatory backlash, noting AI could eliminate half of white-collar jobs. The real-world risks were highlighted as AI-powered teddy bears were pulled from the market for discussing dangerous and inappropriate content with children.
⚡ Startups: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is making his return to an operational role, co-leading a new $6.2 billion AI startup focused on physical world applications. The flow of capital into top labs continues as Anthropic secured a massive $15 billion joint investment from Microsoft and Nvidia. To keep pace with the unprecedented demand fueled by these investments, Nvidia is now partnering with startup Menlo Micro to accelerate a key production bottleneck: AI chip testing.
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