Week 25, 2025
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- Apple considering $14B acquisition of Perplexity as Google partnership faces antitrust pressure
- Apple shareholders sue over Siri AI delay
- Meta desperately recruiting AI talent with $100M signing bonuses after failed acquisition attempts
- Scale AI losing clients after Meta investment over data concerns
- Uber expanding data labeling services amid Scale AI chaos
- OpenAI-Microsoft relationship deteriorating over ownership limits and exclusivity terms
- OpenAI even considered antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft
- OpenAI abandoned no-military policy, signed $200M Pentagon contract
- OpenAI switched enterprise pricing to usage-based model
- Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B
- China's MiniMax claims breakthrough AI model trained for just $534K
- SoftBank proposed $1T AI robotics hub in Arizona
- xAI spending $1B monthly on infrastructure
- xAI sued for operating unlicensed 400MW gas turbines
- Meta AI users unknowingly published personal chats in Discover tab
- Meta's Llama models can reproduce up to 42% of Harry Potter text verbatim
- BBC threatening Perplexity over content copying
- Google used billions of YouTube videos to train AI models
- Midjourney now generates videos
- Meta released AI smart glasses with Oakley
- Apple to begin foldable iPhone production this fall
- Tesla launched robotaxi service in Austin with 10 cars
- Amazon's Zoox to produce 10,000 robotaxis a year
- Waymo applied for NYC robotaxi permits
- Tesla building China's largest battery grid network
- SpaceX Starship exploded on the ground
- Snap acquired student calendar app Saturn
- US Senate passed stablecoin bill
- Anthropic fires back at Jensen Huang, who criticized its CEO
- Amazon CEO predicts workforce will shrink despite new AI jobs
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