📰 Everything else in AI today

🚨Lovable founder Anton Osika announced a new $200M funding round that values the Swedish AI app-building startup at $1.8B.

📌Mistral rolled out major updates to its Le Chat platform, including Deep Research, Voice Mode, multilingual reasoning, Projects, and new image editing capabilities.

🕯Hume AI released its EVI 3 speech-to-speech model via API, with the ability to clone voices and capture precise speaking styles for more emotion and personality.

🔼Nvidia introduced Canary-Qwen-2.5B, a new SOTA speech recognition model that moved to the top spot on Hugging Face’s Open ASR leaderboard.

📊Suno released v4.5+, a new audio generation model with new song creation features including vocal swaps, playlist inspiration, and more.

🔼Udio launched updates to its Styles feature for song generation, with new Blending, Library, and Artist Styles coming alongside expanded access for all users.

⚙️ Trending AI Tools

🤖 ChatGPT Agent - Let ChatGPT handle agentic tasks with its own computer

🎮 LTXV - Lighttrick's open-source video model with 60-second outputs

🖱 Vision Desktop Share - Let Copilot view & analyze your screen in real-time

⚙️ Bedrock AgentCore - AWS’ suite of tools for deploying enterprise AI agents

📱 xAI gave a glimpse of its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee

The facility will be powered by 550K NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs, using various energy sources

Musk said the goal is to bring AI compute equivalent of 50M units of Nvidia’s H100 online in 5 years

📰 Everything else in AI today

📱Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a stable model, positioning it as the company’s fastest and most cost-effective option at just $0.10/million input tokens.

📱Meta reportedly hired Cosmo Du, Tianhe Yu, and Weiyue Wang, three researchers from Google DeepMind behind its recent IMO gold-medal math model.

📱Anthropic is reversing its stance on Middle East investments, with its CEO saying, “No bad person should ever benefit from our success is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

📱Elon Musk revealed that xAI is aiming to have the AI compute equivalent of 50M units of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs by 2025.

📱Microsoft reportedly poached over 20 AI engineers from Google DeepMind over the last few months, including former Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya.

📱Apple rolled out a beta update for iOS 26 to developers, reintroducing ‘AI summaries’ that were previously removed over hallucinations and incorrect headlines.

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

⚡️Qwen3 - Alibaba’s newly updated SOTA open-source model

🎮 Hierarchical Reasoning Model - Brain-inspired open-source reasoner

🔍 Pika Social AI Video - AI-only social video app

👍 Act-Two - Runway’s motion capture AI model, now available via API

🇺🇸 U.S. Unveils Major AI Action Plan

Trump admin drops 28-page AI plan with 90+ actions to supercharge U.S. dominance — from building data centers to removing AI red tape.

😎Key Moves:

☺️ Boost open-source & infrastructure
☺️ Repeal legal blocks
☺️ Ensure “objective” AI (no bias)
☺️Use AI as economic, info & cultural weapon

Critics Say:
It favors Big Tech, cuts public safeguards.

Why It Matters:
It’s a full-throttle bid to outpace China — even if it means deregulating AI fast.

🆕Google Uses AI to Decode Ancient Rome

Google DeepMind launches Aeneas — an AI that restores, dates & deciphers broken Latin innoscriptions from the Roman Empire.

Key Feats:
🔴73% text restoration accuracy.
🟠Dates texts within 13 years
🟡Maps origins across Roman provinces
🟢Tested by 23 historians — 90% found it helpful

❓Why It Matters:
AI is now helping unlock ancient history. With tools like Aeneas, gaps in human knowledge could finally be filled — one fragment at a time.

📱 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of an impending “AI fraud”, saying the tech has defeated authentication methods widely used by banks and major institutions.

📱 YouTube launched new AI tools for Shorts creators, introducing photo-to-video capabilities and Effects for quick transformations — both powered by Veo 2.

📱 Google also rolled out AI-powered features in Google Photos, including the ability to transform photos into short videos and a new Remix editing tool.

📱.Microsoft released GitHub Spark in public preview for Copilot Pro+ users, a coding tool that converts natural language into full-stack apps powered by Claude Sonnet 4.

📱 Amazon announced the closure of its AI lab in Shanghai, China, citing strategic adjustments and U.S.-China tensions alongside cloud computing layoffs.

🔎A new report from Pew Research found that Google users click on results/source links 50% less when browsing a page with an AI-generated summary

⚙️Trending AI Tools

👾 Qwen3-Coder - Alibaba’s new SOTA agentic coding model

🫣 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite - Google’s fastest, cost-efficient model

🎵 Higgs Audio V2 - Boson’s open-source audio model for voice generation

📹Google Photos - New AI features including photo-to-video & Remix