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Back to Episodes24th August - AI News Daily - Power Plays: Inside Meta, Apple & Google's Strategic AI Alliances
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Health & Bioscience
OpenAI is expanding into healthcare with Retro Biosciences, developing custom models that improved Yamanaka factor variants for cell reprogramming. Their GPT-5 medical upgrades aim to deliver health guidance at scale. TrackPaw Scientific raised €2.3M for AI monitoring tools to improve preclinical research and animal welfare.
Major Company Moves
Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini into Siri, with a possible September announcement and rollout between 2026. Meta struck deals with Midjourney for advanced image/video generation across its platforms and secured a $10B cloud agreement with Google. OpenAI opened its first office in New Delhi as India becomes ChatGPT's second-largest market. Databricks is acquiring Tecton to accelerate enterprise AI, promising streamlined development for business customers.
Model & Tool Releases
Google opened Veo 3 video generation to all users with a free weekend trial. DeepSeek V3.1 launched with hybrid "Think/Non-Think" inference and aggressive pricing. GPT-5 topped the MCP Universe agent benchmark and showed gaming prowess in Pokémon Crystal. Cohere released Command A with strong enterprise reasoning capabilities. Yupp.ai added Nano Banana and DeepSeek v3.1 image models.
Infrastructure & Efficiency
xAI announced Colossus 2 for gigawatt-scale training. Google reported a 33x reduction in Gemini's energy use per prompt year-over-year. Researchers warned that large AI model training could strain power grids. DeepMind released AlphaEarth embeddings (6 TB) for geospatial research.
Business & Industry
Midjourney reached $500M ARR with just 40 employees. Scale AI is licensing Midjourney technology. Salesforce launched Agentforce for Public Sector. Microsoft is testing Copilot's natural-language file search in Windows 11.
Emerging Applications
NEO debuted as an autonomous ML engineer orchestrated by 11 agents. "Vibe coding" using natural language is gaining traction. Pakistan deployed AI at Islamabad Airport to combat human trafficking. An AI chatbot mimicking late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput sparked controversy over digital resurrection ethics.
Safety & Ethics
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