OpenAI may target an August launch for GPT-5. Google hits 2B monthly AI Overview users. AI talent war intensifies among tech giants.
OpenAI is targeting an early August 2025 launch for GPT‑5, a unified system integrating the o3 reasoning model and offered in standard, mini, and nano forms. Release timing could still shift due to testing and infrastructure constraints.
The White House unveiled a new AI blueprint featuring ~90 recommendations to ease environmental rules, fast‑track data‑center permits, and expand AI hardware/software exports to allies (while barring adversaries), backed by three executive orders.
Google’s AI Overviews hit 2B monthly users; Gemini app has 450M, and AI Mode tops 100M users in the US and India. Despite AI growth, Google’s stock dipped after revealing higher AI-related spending.
Meta named ex-OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its Superintelligence Labs, bolstering leadership with top talent and investing heavily in AI infrastructure to rival OpenAI and Google.
AI platforms drove 1.13B web referrals in June 2025, up 357% YoY, but still far behind Google’s 191B. News sites saw 770% growth, though AI summaries reduced click-through rates. ChatGPT led with 80% of AI referrals.
Google poached Windsurf’s founders in a $2.4B deal, sparking backlash over “acquihires” that leave teams behind and disrupt startup equity norms, alarming VCs and raising ethical concerns.
Microsoft hired ~24 ex-Google DeepMind staff, including key VPs, to boost its AI team under Mustafa Suleyman, intensifying the talent war among tech giants.
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Google Labs launches Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps using prompts, models, and tools via natural language and visual workflows with no coding required.
GitHub launched Spark which helps you transform your ideas into full-stack intelligent apps and allows you to publish with a single click.
The code version (CLI) of Qwen3, the large language model series developed by Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud.
Python SDK, Proxy Server (LLM Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI format.
Starting in August, Anthropic is rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max users. They estimate it'll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage.
Subagents let you create teams of custom agents, each designed to handle specialized tasks.
At the same time, they introduced Lovable Agent which allows it to think, take actions, and adapt its plan as it works through your request.
Research found cases where longer reasoning lead to lower accuracy in the results.
Claude now connects to Notion, Canva, Linear, Asana, and more on mobile.
A study of Bing Copilot use shows generative AI is widely applied in info gathering, writing, and advising, with highest impact on knowledge and admin jobs. An AI applicability score reveals strong links to education and wage levels.
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