AI Daily Brief — 25 August 2025
Google's "Nano Banana" image model tops LMArena editing leaderboard — "Photoshop killer" reveals as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (official Aug 26). DeepSeek V3.1 UE8M0 FP8 /…
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AI Daily Brief — 24 August 2025
Google's free Veo 3 video-generation weekend in Gemini ends 10 PM PT — free users could generate up to three 720p cinematic clips with sound and…
AI Daily Brief — 23 August 2025
A quiet Saturday inside a ferociously loud week. DeepSeek V3.1 still climbing Hugging Face trending. ByteDance Seed-OSS-36B (Apache 2.0, 12T tokens, 512K context, "flexible thinking budget")…
AI Daily Brief — 22 August 2025
NVIDIA tells Samsung, Amkor and Foxconn to halt H20 production after Beijing's national-security pushback against the chip — CEO Huang "surprised" at Beijing's stance, reiterates "there…
AI Daily Brief — 21 August 2025
DeepSeek officially launches V3.1 on Hugging Face — 685B-parameter MoE (37B active), 128K context, hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes, 71.6% on Aider (beats Claude Opus 4), >40% jump…
AI Daily Brief — 20 August 2025
Made by Google in Brooklyn — Pixel 10 series, Tensor G5 on TSMC 3nm, ~4B-parameter Gemini Nano on-device. Pixel 10 ($799), Pro ($999), Pro XL ($1199),…
AI Daily Brief — 19 August 2025
DeepSeek quietly drops V3.1 in a WeChat post — 685B-parameter hybrid model unifying V3 and R1 (thinking + non-thinking in one architecture), 128K context, MoE with…
AI Daily Brief — 18 August 2025
SoftBank takes $2B stake in Intel at $23/share — ~2% of outstanding shares, stock jumps ~9-10%. Intel adds to SoftBank chip portfolio alongside NVIDIA, TSMC, Arm.…
AI Daily Brief — 17 August 2025
Anthropic gives Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end abusive conversations — "model welfare" feature, first major lab to ship such a safeguard. ChatGPT…
AI Daily Brief — 16 August 2025
A quiet Saturday dominated by the rolling aftermath of OpenAI's GPT-5 rollout. Weekend coverage of Altman's SF reporters dinner spills out — admissions OpenAI "totally screwed…
AI Daily Brief — 15 August 2025
Sam Altman tells reporters at SF dinner OpenAI will spend "trillions of dollars" on data centers in the "not very distant future" — admits OpenAI "totally…
AI Daily Brief — 14 August 2025
Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuation led by Radical Ventures and Inovia with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures participating. Joëlle Pineau (ex-Meta FAIR head) joins as…
AI Daily Brief — 13 August 2025
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman publishes Apple AI-comeback scoop — 2027 tabletop robot (7-inch display on a motorized arm), smart-home hub for 2026, home-security cameras, lifelike Siri with…
AI Daily Brief — 12 August 2025
Anthropic offers Claude to all three branches of US government for $1/year via a GSA OneGov deal — matches OpenAI's federal land-grab from a week earlier.…
AI Daily Brief — 11 August 2025
OpenAI quietly restores GPT-4o for ChatGPT Plus via a "show legacy models" setting — Altman concedes the company underestimated how much users valued GPT-4o's tone and…
AI Daily Brief — 10 August 2025
Sam Altman publishes a long X thread on users' emotional attachment to specific AI models — justifying OpenAI's decision to bring GPT-4o back for Plus subscribers.…
AI Daily Brief — 9 August 2025
Altman spends the weekend on social media trying to quell the GPT-5 uproar. Model router blamed for making GPT-5 "seem way dumber" — autoswitcher "broke and…
AI Daily Brief — 8 August 2025
GPT-5 day-two damage control. Sam Altman runs a Reddit AMA, doubles GPT-5 rate limits for Plus (160 msg/3h), restores GPT-4o for Plus subscribers, apologizes for the…
AI Daily Brief — 7 August 2025
OpenAI launches GPT-5 in 10am PT livestream — unified system with real-time router between "GPT-5-main" (fast) and "GPT-5-thinking" (deep reasoning), 400K context, three API tiers ($1.25/$10,…
AI Daily Brief — 6 August 2025
OpenAI teases GPT-5 with cryptic "LIVE5TREAM" announcement — Thursday 10am PT confirmed. Google DeepMind unveils Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that generates navigable 3D environments…
AI Daily Brief — 5 August 2025
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under Apache 2.0 — first open-weight language models since GPT-2 (2019). 120b approaches o4-mini on core reasoning while running on a…
AI Daily Brief — 4 August 2025
Cloudflare publicly accuses Perplexity of running stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives — delists from verified bot program. Tencent open-sources four Hunyuan small models (0.5B/1.8B/4B/7B)…
AI Daily Brief — 3 August 2025
Sam Altman teases GPT-5 — posts on X "Pantheon is such a good show!" and when asked if GPT-5 recommended it, replies with a screenshot whose…
AI Daily Brief — 2 August 2025
EU AI Act GPAI obligations take effect — rules for general-purpose AI providers under Articles 53 & 55 become applicable. ~26 organisations signed the voluntary Code…