Apple revamps Siri with potential AI integrations from Google and Anthropic. Apple plans to challenge OpenAI with an AI-powered search tool, and Anthropic raises a staggering $13B to extend its enterprise reach.
Meta is weighing partnerships with Google and OpenAI (trialing Gemini for Meta AI and using Anthropic models internally) while it builds Llama 5. Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, aims to make its next model competitive.
Four non-executive AI staff left Apple in late August, including Jian Zhang to Meta, while John Peebles and Nan Du joined OpenAI and Zhao Meng moved to Anthropic. Despite high-profile exits, Apple’s AI turnover mirrors industry trends and is not seen as a major setback.
Anthropic raised $13B in a Series F at a $183B valuation to expand enterprise adoption, safety research, and global reach. The firm now serves 300k businesses, grew ARR to $5B in 2025, and reports Claude Code generates $500M+ in run-rate revenue.
Apple plans to launch its AI search tool “World Knowledge Answers” in 2026, integrated into Siri and possibly Safari and Spotlight. The Siri overhaul may use Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude, while Apple faces AI team attrition but pursues acquisitions to bolster talent.
Mike Liberatore, xAI’s CFO, left after joining in April, having helped raise $5B debt and $5B equity and overseen a Memphis data-center push. It adds to exits by Robert Keele, Raghu Rao, Igor Babuschkin, and ex-X CEO Linda Yaccarino.
OpenAI is launching a Jobs Platform to connect companies with AI-skilled workers and expanding its Academy with certifications, aiming to certify 10M Americans by 2030. Partners like Walmart, BCG, and Indeed will support efforts to boost AI fluency and workforce opportunities.
Chinese firms are racing to replace Nvidia amid U.S. chip restrictions. Alibaba unveiled a new AI inference chip compatible with Nvidia tools, while MetaX and Cambricon rolled out alternatives and Huawei showcased a massive Ascend system.
The Claude Code integration is now available in public beta for Zed. It runs natively in Zed through the new Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
Warp Code is a suite of features for shipping agent-generated code all the way from prompt to production. It includes a coding agent, code review, code editing, and projects in Warp with their own WARP.md files.
It is their biggest model yet, with over 1 trillion parameters. It is now available via Qwen Chat & Alibaba Cloud API.
DeepSeek is developing a new AI agent model that can perform multi-step tasks and learn from prior actions, aiming for release late this year. Following its R1 breakthrough, the startup seeks to rival OpenAI and Anthropic as the industry shifts toward autonomous AI agents.
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
Available to logged-in users on web. You can now more easily explore different directions without losing your original thread.
First announced in August and now available with Pro plans. You can now easily pick up from where you left off.
The deal is for $610M and an all-cash transaction. Dia will continue to be the focus.
Alex, the AI tool for Xcode, is joining OpenAI and transitioning to Codex.
OpenAI research finds language models hallucinate because accuracy-focused evaluations reward guessing over admitting uncertainty. The company proposes reworking scoreboards to penalize confident errors and give credit for abstentions, aiming to reduce false outputs in future models.
This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for developers looking to integrate Gemini 2.5 Flash Image aka Nano Banana into their applications using the Gemini Developer API.
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