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Need-to-Know
- OpenAI says ChatGPT can now reliably avoid em dashes when asked, resolving a long-standing punctuation-control bug.
- Databricks’ co-founder warns the U.S. is losing AI leadership as research becomes closed and academic collaboration declines.
- Anthropic detailed how it keeps Claude politically neutral and released an open-source tool that scores its balance across viewpoints.
- LinkedIn introduced an AI feature that lets users search for people using natural-language descriptions, first for U.S. Premium subscribers.
- Google is adding Deep Research to NotebookLM and expanding file-type support so users can run full research workflows in one place.
- Anthropic reported that Chinese state-backed hackers used Claude to automate roughly 30 cyberattacks—most of the work done by AI.
- Mozilla is adding an optional AI Window to Firefox, allowing users to chat with an assistant and choose which model powers it.
- Cloudflare acquired Replicate to bring its containerized AI model platform into Workers AI for unified model deployment and inference.
- Sakana AI raised $135M to advance self-evolving AI research and expand Japan’s applied AI ecosystem.
- Google is rolling out AI-powered Flight Deals globally and adding new AI travel-planning and booking features to Search.
- TikTok added controls for how much AI content appears in the feed and started testing invisible watermarks for labeling generated media.
- Emm raised $9M for a smart menstrual cup that tracks reproductive health and anchors a broader women’s health platform.
- Lambda raised $1.5B in new funding from TWG Global, boosting its neocloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
- Intuit signed a $100M+ deal with OpenAI to integrate its tax and financial products into ChatGPT and deepen model usage company-wide.
- Elon Musk and Jensen Huang will discuss AI and tech at a major U.S.–Saudi investment forum with top industry leaders.
- Korea’s Voronoi surged on hopes for its AI-powered cancer therapies, making CEO Hyuntae Kim a new billionaire.
- RapidSOS became a unicorn after raising $100M to scale its AI-driven emergency data-integration platform for first responders.
- Amazon Prime Video is rolling out AI-generated video recaps, marking increased adoption of generative AI in entertainment.
- A former Eli Lilly executive launched Arbiter with $52M to automate healthcare operations using AI.
- ElevenLabs added image and video generation, merging Sora- and Veo-level models with its audio tech into a single creative suite.
- Brookfield + Nvidia launched a $100B AI-infrastructure program to expand energy, compute, and datacenter capacity.
- OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a long-horizon coding model surpassing Gemini 3 Pro on multiple benchmarks.
- Function Health raised $298M to build a doctor-trained medical AI that synthesizes user health data into personalized insights.
- Google’s Scholar Labs is prioritizing AI over citations in research discovery, raising concerns about algorithmic credibility.
- Meta launched SAM 3 and SAM 3D, enabling text-guided image segmentation and realistic 3D reconstruction from a single image.
Weekly AI Launches
- Swytchcode introduced a tool that turns static API docs into an interactive, AI-powered developer playground.
- 2pr v2.0 launched as a full LinkedIn content system that analyzes trends, reverse-engineers viral posts, and writes in your voice.
- RBD debuted as a community + platform spotlighting and celebrating indie makers and their work.
- Koyal launched an AI system that converts any audio into a full cinematic video with consistent storylines and characters.
- Welltory released a tool analyzing 100+ biomarkers to detect stress triggers and provide personalized steps to reverse them.
- BeFreed rolled out a personal audio agent that builds instant, custom learning experiences from thousands of real-time sources.
- Paraflow unveiled an AI Product Design Agent that generates structured PRDs and user flows for professional product development.
- YourGPT v2.0 launched with 100+ integrations, PhoneAI, and an MCP marketplace for building multimodal agents without code.
- Markopolo AI introduced a system that uses behavioral signals to deliver personalized follow-ups, claiming 2× conversion impact.
- Typeless launched a speech-to-text tool that transforms raw dictation into polished, contextual documents matching your style.
- GoMarble AI released an agent for Meta Ads that explains performance shifts with instant root-cause analysis.
- Checkit launched a scanner that rates grocery items on health and ethics instantly—no barcode needed.
- Alloy introduced a prototyping tool that captures your real app and uses AI chat to build pixel-perfect interactive concepts.
- Snippets AI launched a unified prompt manager for teams to centralize, categorize, and share prompts.
- Delight.ai unveiled a branded AI concierge designed for personalized, trustworthy, and revenue-driving customer experiences.
- Bluedot v2.0 released a bot-free AI notetaker that passively captures meetings and updates your CRM automatically.
- Guideflow launched an AI platform that instantly creates interactive demos and sandboxes using a no-code editor.
- Dimension introduced a proactive AI assistant that uses deep context from your tools to automate recurring tasks.
- Todoist Ramble debuted as a beta that turns natural speech into structured tasks with deadlines and metadata.
- Spine Canvas launched a visual workspace for orchestrating 300+ AI models in parallel through modular blocks.
