🔥 Story Of The Week: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 with a 67% price cut. This aggressive move, targeting coding and office work, directly follows recent launches from Google and OpenAI, intensifying the competition in the enterprise AI market.
⭐️ Must Reads: The AI market remains bullish, with Google surging toward a $4 trillion valuation. Amid the boom, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has sharply criticized managers who limit workplace AI use. However, significant safety and ethical challenges are emerging. Scrutiny is intensifying over the mental health impact of AI chatbots, as OpenAI defends against lawsuits linking its products to user deaths. On the research front, a new AI model called popEVE shows the technology's potential for good by revolutionizing rare disease diagnosis.
🧰 Technology: Google launched Nano Banana Pro, its professional-grade AI image generator with 4K resolution, and is also developing Aluminium OS, an AI-powered desktop operating system to replace ChromeOS. As model capabilities advance, a critical vulnerability has been found. Researchers discovered that poetry can be used as a universal jailbreak method to bypass AI safety guardrails.
📊 Business: Competition in the AI chip market is escalating, with Meta reportedly exploring a multi-billion dollar switch from Nvidia to Google's TPUs. While the hardware race heats up, Tesla's stock rallied on its AI promises, masking weakening EV sales fundamentals. In a major strategic move, President Trump has launched the Genesis Mission, a massive federal AI initiative to accelerate U.S. scientific research.
📝 Policy: As AI risks become clearer, major insurers are now retreating from AI coverage, citing the potential for multi-billion dollar losses. At the same time, Figure AI is facing a whistleblower lawsuit over claims its humanoid robots could fracture human skulls. In the data privacy space, Google is denying allegations that it uses Gmail content for AI training.
⚡ Startups: OpenAI and Jony Ive have completed their first prototype for a screenless AI device, aiming for a launch within two years. In a different hardware play, Sunday Robotics unveiled Memo, a household robot trained on 10 million real-world chores. Jeff Bezos' new venture, Project Prometheus, has quietly acquired AI agent startup General Agents for its manufacturing ambitions.
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