In this weeks news Ralph and Emile cover updates from ascross the AI industry and share insights into new tools, concepts and techniques.
Key Topics at a Glance
- OpenAI “code red” vs Anthropic’s calmer strategy
- DeepSeek’s open-source frontier model
- AI-driven revenue at Salesforce & Microsoft
- Meta’s WhatsApp walled garden vs EU regulators
- Data-center debt bubble risk around OpenAI
- Suno’s acquisition of Songkick (AI music → live shows)
- Replit’s AI-caused prod deletion & agent safety
- Apple’s AI leadership shuffle
- Nvidia’s China-targeted servers and export politics
- Anthropic’s DeFi exploit detection agent
- Amazon Rufus & AI-boosted Black Friday conversions
- GPUs vs TPUs & green AI scaling
- Prompting pattern: “5 responses + probabilities”
- Affinity going free forever as an Adobe alternative
- Mistral’s edge models, HSBC deal & EU sovereignty
- Robo-judges, hallucinations & legal risk
- Tokenomics: model pricing, token thresholds, and cost optimisation
- DeepSeek & small language models as ultra-cheap options
- Gemini glasses doing real-world tasks (like oil changes)
- Persona-driven voice agents & Trump-style recipe voice
- Aura + Gemini for stunning AI-built websites
- OpenAI age verification & adult mode vs over-guardrails
