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👀 Weekly AI News: Did You Miss It?
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
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October 05, 2025
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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AIHOY and happy weekend, dear AInauts!
Maybe you didn't catch all the exciting news, tools, and hacks related to AI last week, or maybe you're new here. No need to worry!
We have summarized our highlights from the past week for you:
Finally, here are the most important Quick News items for you – so you can see all the relevant developments at a glance with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
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People share their most intimate thoughts with AI chatbots instead of real people. ChatGPT & Co. are becoming digital confidants for finances, relationships, and life crises. The reason? No prejudice, no gossip, no awkward silences—just a patient listener around the clock.
The new reality is clear: AI is becoming a spiritual companion and therapist—the only question is, under what conditions will we allow this to happen? Because these seemingly private conversations are often used as training data! So make sure to use privacy settings or anonymous alternatives such as DuckDuckGo AI Chat.
ChatGPT has a hidden quiz mode that you can activate with a simple prompt: "Create me a quiz on the topic XYZ in QuizGPT as flashcards."
This feature currently only works in your browser, not in the app. You can choose the difficulty level, format, and context yourself. A particularly cool feature is that you can upload your own documents for personalized quizzes.
OpenAI presents ChatGPT Pulse, a new pro feature that delivers personalized morning updates via push notifications. The insights are based on chat history, email, and calendar. And we suspect that relevant advertising will soon be making an appearance as well.
As an alternative, we recommend the new Huxe app, developed by the NotebookLM team after they left Google. The app turns your emails, calendar entries, and news into crisp audio briefings—perfect for on the go and without annoying doomscrolling. And it's free!
The new humanoid AI robot Unitree G1 is available at an affordable price starting at $16,000. Equipped with impressive kung fu skills and adaptive AI, it could become not only your bodyguard, but also the perfect office assistant. From mail distribution to greeting guests, the API enables a wide range of automations.
However, there is a catch: it appears to maintain contact with the mother ship and transmit the data back to China. Meta seems to be working on an alternative—more data protection, but with advertising in return...
The German no-code tool Onepage has introduced exciting AI features that make creating websites as easy as possible. Complete sites are generated in seconds and can be customized using drag-and-drop—no coding knowledge required.
Particularly impressive: the "Template Remix" feature allows existing templates to be redesigned using AI prompts. The GDPR-compliant AI features perfectly complement the already robust no-code foundation, making Onepage a highly recommended option for website creation.
Finally, a solution to the problem of short AI video clips! With this clever workaround, you can now create videos of any length. The trick: the last frame of a generated video is used as a reference image for the next clip, and these sequences are then stitched together.
The entire process can be automated using the Replicate API and integrated into tools such as Zapier. Particularly exciting: the creation of UGC video ads from individual images with automatically added calls to action.
OpenAI is setting an impressive pace! With Sora 2, they are presenting a groundbreaking video model that sets new standards in terms of physics, character consistency, and even sound. The videos look absolutely fantastic!
But that's not all: ChatGPT is also becoming a shopping buddy! Thanks to partnerships with Stripe, Shopify, and Etsy, users will soon be able to shop directly in Chatty. This opens up exciting opportunities for brands that want to appear in ChatGPT's recommendations.
📰 AI News Quickie: The HAI-lights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news stories from the last few days.
OpenAI's advance
OpenAI is entering into strategic billion-dollar deals and has reached a valuation of $500 billion.
A $100 billion alliance with Nvidia is expected to create over 10 gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
Further billion-dollar deals, including one with Oracle, are driving growth, even though the company posted heavy losses in the first half of the year.
A new OpenAI study shows that AI models are already performing at near-human expert levels in 44 occupations and could replace some jobs. The study also shows that mass adoption of AI as a search tool is growing rapidly.
Sora 2 is here and generates more realistic videos with synchronized dialogue and cameo appearances. At the same time, the social app Sora was launched, allowing users to create deceptively real videos of people, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
OpenAI is launching an offensive targeting SaaS companies such as HubSpot, Salesforce, and DocuSign, and together with Jony Ive, it also wants to attack Apple with its own hardware venture.
To increase security, OpenAI has introduced new parental controls for ChatGPT and stepped up its efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation. A new Applied Evals Team is also set to fuel competition for AI talent.
Anthropic doubles down: Claude 4.5 Sonnet is here!
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5 and immodestly announced it as the "best programming model in the world." It scores points with improved capabilities in agent development, logic, and mathematics and can work for over 30 hours at a stretch. Anthropic emphasizes the topic of AI safety and the responsible scaling of its models.
To support developers, there is now a native VS Code extension for Claude Code and new features for optimized context management.
Claude integrates deeply with Slack with DM, side panel, and thread mentions and is available for teams on paid plans.
The Chrome extension is the answer to Perplexity's Comet Browser and can now manage tasks across multiple tabs.
And with Imagine with Claude, you can have Claude spontaneously create apps in an imaginary workspace. Wild …
Google's AI offensive on all fronts
Google is integrating Gemini deeply into its ecosystem: In Google Sheets, the AI now explains why formulas are not working. The "Collaborate with Gemini" feature is now also available in the mobile Drive apps.
On Google TV, you can have interactive conversations with Gemini, while Google Home is introducing new devices and boosting productivity with a new summary feature.
In the area of image and video editing, changing images in Google Photos is also made easier for Android users with prompts. The Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Model is also getting an API update.
Google Flow gets a new editing feature and prompt expander.
In Google AI Studio, you can create voice AI agents free of charge and build powerful apps with the Gemini API.
Although the new AI overviews in Google Search have led to a drop in traffic for publishers, Google remains unchallenged with 14 billion daily searches, making it 210 times larger than ChatGPT. In addition, Google Search is now rolling out AI mode worldwide in Spanish.
Chrome for Android gets Audio Overviews, which turn articles into mini podcasts.
New AI models and developer tools
Elon Musk announces Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia. The free knowledge index already contains over 2.8 million articles in German and 6.8 million in English.
DeepSeek introduces updates: V3.1 Terminus improves language consistency, and a new model utilizes the "sparse attention" technique.
Qwen introduces Qwen3-Omni, the first native end-to-end omnimodal AI that combines text, image, audio, and video in a single model.
Hume AI has introduced Octave 2, a multilingual text-to-speech model for over 11 languages. Extremely realistic and impressive!
Perplexity has launched the Search API for developers and introduced a mail assistant tool for Max subscribers.
After a $50 million funding round, Factory released its Droids software agents and showed how to build your own army of droids.
Cloudflare has released VibeSDK, an open source AI coding framework that allows you to code apps with Vibe.
Ollama has announced a web search API and an MCP server to provide local and cloud models with up-to-date content.
AI conquers the creative industry and Hollywood
The major record labels are suing Suno for illegal use of YouTube songs. At the same time, the company is launching Suno Studio.
After only two months, the AI band Bleeding Verse has more monthly listeners than the established band Holding Absence, which served as its inspiration.
Hollywood stars such as Emily Blunt are criticizing the new "AI actress" Tilly Norwood and warning of massive repercussions for the industry.
The Mirage Video Editor makes video editing almost as easy as typing.
The website builder Faces allows you to create websites quickly.
YouTube launches YouTube Labs, where users can test AI experiments.
AI in health, everyday life, and the workplace
Microsoft Research uses AI to assist in the diagnosis of rare diseases, while another model can predict over 1,000 diseases years in advance.
The Apple Watch Series 11 will soon use AI to alert users to high blood pressure.
For the first time, researchers have developed viruses designed with AI that can specifically target harmful bacteria.
To overcome the problem of "swipe fatigue," Facebook Dating is getting a new AI chatbot or partner to help users find a match.
Microsoft introduces Agent Mode in 365 Copilot and brings an improved chat experience with Copilot Portraits.
Notion's new AI agents can now do everything a human can do in Notion, from page creation to database management.
WhatsApp has introduced new features: share time-lapse photos, use Meta AI for chat topics, and more.
With the new live translation feature in iOS 26, the iPhone with the right AirPods becomes a foreign language conversation partner.
The great AI hype: Economy, ethics, and society in transition
Analysts warn of a bubble: Deutsche Bank sees the US economy in an AI bubble, and Nvidia's massive investment in OpenAI is also fueling concerns.
The valuations of AI startups have reached a new dimension at $2.3 trillion.
Sam Altman predicts that by 2030, super-intelligent AI will take over 30-40% of all current tasks. At the same time, exponential progress is often underestimated and ignored by the general public.
California has passed SB 53, a groundbreaking law on AI transparency that requires large AI companies to submit safety reports.
Demand for AI coding tools is falling rapidly, and the summer hype seems to be over.…
Hardware, robots, and infrastructure alliances
NVIDIA launches a revolutionary collaboration with Intel to develop new AI infrastructure and more.
Taiwan refuses to relocate 50% of its chip production for the US to American soil.
The Gulf states are investing heavily in money and energy to become the world's largest tech power.
The US General Services Administration (GSA) supports the introduction of Meta's Llama models in federal agencies for greater efficiency.
Apple is developing a ChatGPT-like app to test the revamped Siri and plans to add MCP support for agentic AI to its devices.
NVIDIA releases new open models and simulation libraries to accelerate robotics research.
Meta is investing billions in humanoid robots and sees software as the biggest challenge. New robot technologies are also coming out of South Korea.
That’s a wrap for now! See you next week,
Fabian & Reto
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