Google's mysterious "nano-banana" image model—which secretly topped editing benchmarks—is now Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. The reveal targets OpenAI's visual dominance with better character consistency, but the real battle is user growth and platform control.
Forty-four attorneys general threaten coordinated legal action against AI companies over child safety failures. Meta singled out for internal policies allowing romantic chatbot interactions with children as young as eight.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Productivity promised, rungs removed. A new Stanford analysis using ADP payroll data finds employment for
Berlin's n8n just jumped from €300 million to nearly $3 billion valuation in four months. Ten VCs are fighting over the AI automation startup that's building the nervous system for enterprise agents. At 75x revenue, there's no room for error.
OpenAI's GPT-5 answers 20 critical questions developers are asking. From the 56.8% security vulnerability rate to hidden reasoning costs that multiply bills 5x, here's what matters beyond the marketing claims about the three-tier model system.
Alibaba's free Qwen-Image model just outperformed paid AI tools from OpenAI and others on key benchmarks. The open-source approach challenges the subscription model that dominates image generation, especially for non-English markets.
After five years of closed development, OpenAI just released two free AI models anyone can download and run locally. The timing isn't coincidental—Chinese competitors have been dominating open-source AI while OpenAI courted Washington.
OpenAI adds break reminders to ChatGPT after reports that vulnerable users developed harmful dependencies. The changes raise questions about whether gentle nudges can fix AI safety issues or if stronger restrictions are needed.
Xiaomi just released a free voice AI model that outperforms Google and OpenAI's paid systems. The open-source MiDashengLM-7B processes audio 20x faster than competitors and handles speech, music, and environmental sounds as one unified system.
Apple spent two years dismissing chatbots. Now it's building a ChatGPT rival through a secret 'Answers' team as the company scrambles to catch up in AI while bleeding talent to Meta and facing Siri delays until 2026.
Singapore startup Manus challenges OpenAI and Google's single-agent 'Deep Research' by deploying 100+ AI agents simultaneously. Bold bet on parallel processing over sequential work, but zero evidence it actually works better.
Anthropic cuts OpenAI's access to Claude models just weeks before GPT-5 launch, citing terms of service violations. OpenAI's engineers were using Claude Code internally to test their upcoming model. The timing raises questions about AI competition tactics.
OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature hours after launch when thousands of private conversations appeared in Google search results. The rapid reversal highlights a growing tension in AI development between useful features and user privacy.
Developers are embracing AI tools faster than ever (84% adoption) but trust is crashing. Only 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43%. The culprit? 'Almost right' code that takes longer to debug than writing from scratch.
Apple's bet on India to escape China risks just hit Trump's tariff wall. Stock down 17% as AI strategy fails while competitors soar. The company that once led tech innovation now trades at premium prices for mature-company growth.
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