• Apple Gives Up, Pays Google $1B for Gemini - with Google's tech, Siri could be upgraded from "useless" to "maybe occasionally helpful" — Bloomberg

• OpenAI's Revenue Exceeds $20B Annually - They also plan for another $1.4 trillion in data centers. They're either building the future or inflating the world's most expensive, bubble. Probably both. — AI for Work

• Snapchat to Integrate Perplexity in app - Your Snapchat AI can now give teens answers to vital questions like "what's the best filter for a duck face?" It only cost them $400 million. — Snap Investor Relations

• OpenAI and AWS to enter a $38 billion partnership - OpenAI is now in a very expensive polyamorous relationship, adding AWS for $38 billion while still keeping Azure around. Awkward. — CNBC

• Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2 - A new AI model that's totally better than all the others in all benchmarks. At least until next Tuesday, when the true best model will be released. — Moonshot AI

• Google Gemini Integrates with Your Workspace - Great news! Google will now read all your privavte emails, private files, and private chats, just to help you write reports for work. What could possibly go wrong? — Google

• ChatGPT Now Lets You Interrupt Queries - In a world-changing innovation, you can now interrupt the robot mid way, just like you do with your human friends. The future is here you guys. — OpenAI on X

• Google Maps Gets a Gemini Upgrade - Get ready for your GPS to say, "Here are the top 5 reasons you should turn left right now. 👈👆👉👇" — Google Blog

• Canva Launches Creative Operating System - Canva now calls itself an "Operating System" because a "design tool" wasn't as trendy. Its AI will help you generate the exact designs as everyone else. — Canva

• Slack Launches 'Slackbot' Personal Assistant - A fancy name for "we know we created too many channels, so pay us extra to summarize all that noise we created with our business model" — Salesforce

• "Sandbar" Unveils 'Stream' Smart Ring - From the people who brought you the Metaverse, here's a ring that listens to everything you say and gives you real-time commentary. Because everyone wants a tiny critic on their finger. — TechCrunch

• NotebookLM Gets Learning Superpowers - Google's app can now make flashcards and quizzes from your notes. It's the perfect tool for learning things without actually having to, you know, learn them. — Google Blog

• Sora App Launches on Android Yay. More AI-slop! Get ready for your social media to be flooded with even weirder, AI-generated videos of cats flying through space. — TechCrunch

• XPENG Unveils Its new Female Humanoid Robot I saw it, it has a digital face for "expressions" and touch-sensitive skin, which is not creepy at all thanks guys. — XPENG

• Amazon Launches AI Kindle Translate for Authors - Indie authors can now use Kindle's AI to translate their work. All nuance and literary merit can now be automatically lost in any language. — TechCrunch

• Google Deploys New Axion CPUs & Ironwood TPUs - Google made some new computer chips that are really really, REALLY, REALLY fast so new AI models can hallucinate answers at record-breaking speeds. — Tom's Hardware

• Perplexity Upgrades Comet Assistant - The AI assistant is now 23% faster at browsing the web for you. Weird flex, but okay. — Perplexity

• Tinder Tests 'Chemistry' AI Matchmaker - An AI will now analyze your photos and questionable life choices to find someone equally disappointing. — The Verge

• Manus 1.5 General Agent - Manus 1.5 now claims it can build entire apps with an UNLIMITED context window. Sure buddy... sure... What's the business model? donations from Qatar? — Manus

• Windsurf Codemaps by Cognition - Cognition has released a new feature that generates AI-annotated, structured maps your codebase, so vibe coding agents can ruin it more quickly. — Cognition AI

• Google Gemini API Adds File Search - The API now includes a built-in RAG system, managed vector search and citation features for developers who were tool lazy to hook another API call to their workflow. — Google Developers Blog

• Litter Robot 5 Pro Launches with AI Health Monitoring - The Litter Robot 5 Pro uses dual AI cameras to analyze your cat's waste, because we've officially run out of problems to solve. — Litter Robot

• Kim Kardashian Blames ChatGPT for Failed Law Exam - In the ultimate "dog ate my homework," she claims the AI gave her wrong answers. Maybe don't use a chatbot for legal advice? but hey that's just me. — TechCrunch

• LLMs Struggle with Robot Vacuums - The world's most powerful AIs fail at telling a robot vacuum to clean a room 60% of the time, which is apparently a metric we measure now. — Andon Labs

• Cooking Robot Fails at... COOKING - In a stunning demo, a cooking robot successfully yeeted a pan of food across the kitchen and fell over it. 🤣 — Source

• Google Explores AI Data Centers in Space - To solve AI's massive energy problem on earth, Google's plans to create a massive AI energy problem in Space. — The Verge

• Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Shopping Agent - An AI shopping bot got in trouble for not telling Amazon it was a robot. The first shots of the human-robot war will be fought over Terms of Service agreements. — TechCrunch

• EU Realizes Regulating AI Is Hard - After tech giants tantrumed like 2-ear olds, the EU is thinking about pausing its own AI rules, proving that lobbying is more powerful than legislation 👍. — Reuters

• OpenAI Faces Multiple Wrongful Death Lawsuits - The company that created the helpful AI assistant is being sued for allegedly being the opposite of helpful. Moving fast and breaking things has consequences, it seems. — Associated Press