Silism Week 51 covers Gemini in Chrome, OpenAI’s future adult mode, AI laws in New York, Meta AI glasses, Amazon–OpenAI talks, Claude agent standards, and 20 new AI product launches across education, video, dev tools, and infrastructure.
Need-to-Know
- Google Translate is rolling out real-time headphone translation alongside Gemini-powered upgrades for translation quality and language learning.
- New York State passed laws mandating disclosure of AI-generated people in ads and requiring consent for commercial use of deceased individuals’ likenesses.
- OpenAI plans to introduce an adult mode in ChatGPT in Q1 2026, contingent on stronger age-detection and safeguarding systems.
- Thinking Machines released Tinker as a generally available LoRA-based fine-tuning service for large language models.
- Google is adding core Gemini AI features to Chrome on iPhone and iPad, enabling page-level questions and summaries.
- Chai Discovery, backed by OpenAI, raised a $130M Series B at a $1.3B valuation to advance AI-driven molecular and drug design.
- Creative Commons cautiously endorsed AI pay-to-crawl models as a way to balance creator compensation with public access.
- Merriam-Webster named “slop” its 2025 word of the year, describing the flood of low-quality AI-generated digital content.
- Amazon Kindle added “Ask this Book,” letting AI answer spoiler-free questions from read pages, with no opt-out option for authors.
- British Airways warned that as AI agents drive flight decisions, airlines that fail to appeal to machines risk digital invisibility.
- DoorDash launched Zesty, an AI-powered social app aggregating cross-platform data for personalized restaurant discovery.
- Meta added conversation amplification to its AI glasses and introduced Spotify playback triggered by visual cues.
- Adobe upgraded Firefly with prompt-driven video editing and broader support for third-party image and video models.
- Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest roughly $10B in OpenAI, at a valuation that could exceed $500B.
- Red Hat acquired AI security startup Chatterbox Labs to harden model and MCP-agent security across Red Hat AI.
- Instacart is under FTC scrutiny over its AI pricing system after studies showed notable price differences on identical groceries.
- Google integrated its Opal vibe-coding tool into Gemini, enabling no-code mini-app creation via language and visual editing.
- Coursera announced an all-stock acquisition of Udemy to merge academic learning with practical skills and expand AI education.
- Nature reports that AI is now widely used in peer review and publishing, despite limited transparency and shared standards.
- Mozilla’s new CEO confirmed Firefox will pivot toward an AI browser to address revenue pressure and market relevance.
- OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity are offering free AI services in India to accelerate adoption while collecting multilingual training data.
- Luma launched Ray3 Modify, enabling video generation from start and end frames while preserving original performances.
- Zara is using AI-generated imagery of real models to speed production, reigniting debate over fashion photography jobs.
- Anthropic made Claude’s Agent Skills an open standard with centralized management, fast creation, and partner integrations.
- DoorDash launched a grocery shopping experience inside ChatGPT, turning AI recipe ideas into local orders and delivery.
Weekly AI Launches
- Qu launched a game-based platform that turns Electronics and Physics concepts into interactive STEM puzzles.
- BlazorOcticons released a library providing GitHub Octicons as native, customizable Blazor components.
- Flowglad launched an open-source payment provider that removes webhooks and glue code for database synchronization.
- Google Vids debuted an AI video creation tool for work, generating polished videos with storyboards and avatars in minutes.
- Unloop released a visual behavior-mapping tool that uses AI to help users break negative personal loops.
- ManyPI launched a system that converts any website into a clean, type-safe API for RAG and data extraction via prompts.
- Syllaby released v3.0, an AI video studio automating viral-quality content from script to publication.
- Google introduced GenTabs, a Gemini 3 experiment that turns open browser tabs into no-code mini apps.
- NexaSDK launched an on-device AI SDK running multimodal models locally on iOS and Android with NPU acceleration.
- Readever released a reading app that lets users chat with books and co-read alongside AI personas of historical figures.
- Okara launched a platform to run 30+ open-source models with web search and file analysis, eliminating infra complexity.
- QualGent introduced an AI QA agent that tests mobile apps on real devices using plain English prompts and self-healing scripts.
- Kraa released v1.0, combining notes, collaborative documents, and live chat in a single web app.
- StreamAlive launched a tool that turns PowerPoint slides into interactive sessions driven by meeting chat inputs.
- CanvAi introduced an infinite canvas workspace that transforms rough sketches into refined AI-generated art.
- Croct updated its CMS to enable audience segmentation using historical recency and frequency behavior patterns.
- TimeTuna rebranded from Bookva.ai, adding Outlook support, custom fields, and free video backgrounds.
- Monocle released v3.0 for macOS, blurring background windows when the cursor is shaken to boost focus.
- Netlify launched AI Gateway, simplifying credentials and billing for integrating major AI models.
- Shadow introduced a bot-free AI that captures audio and screen context to turn meetings into actionable outputs.