Week-38: Musk Rewrites the Wiki

Need-to-Know

• Musk Targets the Internet’s Open-Source Rulebook … read more
• Walmart’s Sam’s Club is deploying enterprise AI for managers, becoming one of the first U.S. retailers to bring generative AI onto the shop floor.
• CuspAI secures $100M to push its AI-powered “search engine” for breakthroughs in materials science.
• Adobe introduces its first AI agents in the Experience Platform, aimed at automating customer journeys with orchestration and personalization.
• Ralph Lauren unveils “Ask Ralph,” an AI stylist delivering luxury advice online, though it still can’t replace in-store fitting.
• The “dead internet” theory gains traction as studies reveal bots dominate traffic and low-quality AI content surges.
• Box launches AI agents for content extraction, workflow automation, and security, pushing toward fully automated enterprise processes.
• The FTC probes Meta, OpenAI, and others over risks their AI companions may pose to children.
• Alibaba’s Amap expands beyond maps with AI-driven business rankings, going head-to-head with Meituan in China’s lifestyle sector.
• Anthropic adds automatic memory to Claude (for Team and Enterprise plans) plus a new incognito chat option.
• Roku adopts generative AI to make ad creation easier, opening video marketing to small businesses and reshaping streaming ads.
• A new animated film is being produced using OpenAI’s tools at a fraction of the budget, intensifying Hollywood’s AI debate.
• The UAE unveils K2 Think, an open-source AI model based on Qwen 2.5, built to rival DeepSeek and OpenAI.
• Microsoft purchases Anthropic’s AI services to reduce reliance on OpenAI within Office 365.
• Scientists create photonic chips that train neural networks with light, cutting energy needs and enabling real-time AI.
• Flowtica releases Scribe, a smart pen that transforms meeting sketches and notes into emails and summaries.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits social platforms feel “fake” due to bot activity fueled by AI.
• Motion, an AI agent startup, raises $38M at a $550M valuation to become the “AI Office suite” for SMBs.
• OpenAI reveals AI models tend to hallucinate because evaluation systems reward confident guesses.
• Google broadens AI Mode in Search to five new languages, including Hindi and Japanese.
• Cisco debuts Data Fabric, designed to unify machine data and deliver real-time AI analytics across enterprises.
• AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns capitalism’s short-term focus may amplify job losses and inequality.
• Google DeepMind and LIGO researchers build an AI that cuts detector background noise by 30x for gravitational waves.
• Snapchat adds “Imagine Lens,” letting premium users generate AI images from text prompts.
• Virginia Tech turns to AI to review applications, replacing one of two human readers to handle rising volumes.
• AI shows potential in retirement planning, though experts warn about accuracy, privacy, and human judgment gaps.

Weekly AI Launches

• Latitude unveils v2.0, a platform to build, link, and run production-ready AI agents from a single prompt.
• Genstore.ai introduces a tool to set up online shops in minutes, with AI agents managing design, setup, and marketing.
• Incredible rolls out a preview of Agentic AI Models that can execute 1,000+ actions simultaneously and handle large datasets.
• Seedream 4.0 debuts as an advanced image model combining generation and editing, handling complex prompts and producing 4K outputs faster.
• Aikido Security presents a unified AI platform that auto-remediates vulnerabilities across code, cloud, and runtime.
• Cosine launches a CLI integrating its repo-aware coding agent directly in the terminal for local writing, refactoring, and testing.
• Oboe introduces an AI-driven platform enabling anyone to instantly build engaging, tailored educational courses.
• Plander.ai launches an AI project manager that breaks goals into tasks and dynamically adapts plans as priorities shift.
• CREAO unveils a platform for building custom AI apps with a natural language copilot built in.
• YouMind rolls out a tool supporting the creative journey end-to-end, from idea to polished content.
• Empromptu introduces a no-code conversational builder that creates full-stack, AI-native apps in minutes.
• Ona (ex-Gitpod) launches collaborative AI coding agents in a cloud-based VS Code workspace accessible anywhere.
• VidAU debuts an AI video generator that transforms product images into TikTok and Instagram ad-ready clips.
• Tripo AI releases v3.0, upgrading its model to turn text or images into high-quality, production-ready 3D assets.
• Solid introduces an AI app builder that generates scalable, full-stack Node.js + React apps for real production use.
• Vectorize v2.0 adds features like hosted no-code chatbots, smarter data queries, and embedded website chat widgets.
• Uxia unveils an AI-powered user testing platform with synthetic users delivering fast, reliable feedback.
• The SEO Mega Report debuts, leveraging GPT-5 to analyze Google and ChatGPT crawlability plus technical SEO health.
• FunBlocks AI Slides launches instant AI-generated presentations with Markdown flexibility and smart layouts.
• Higgsfield introduces Ads 2.0, a “Mini App” merging production, creative, and marketing workflows into one flow.