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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
May 03, 2025
👀 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 about AI last week, or maybe you've just joined us. No need to worry!
We have summarized our highlights of the past week for you:
Finally, there is the most important quick news for you - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
Vibe Coding makes app development possible for everyone: with natural language and AI, even non-programmers can now quickly create apps. The S.H.I.P. framework (Specify, Hack, Iterate, Publish), combined with tools such as Lovable, Replit or Cursor and free API credits from OpenAI and Google open up completely new possibilities.
What we are excited about: OpenAI's new GPT Image 1 model is now also available for high-quality image generation via API. And the future promises even more - AI agents will soon be working continuously on code bases and developing features overnight.
Genspark.ai is revolutionizing presentation creation with a clever AI agent team! The tool combines different AI models for optimal results and offers deep research, image generation, video creation and even phone calls.
In our tests, it clearly outperforms other slide generators with really well-researched content. With a simple prompt, professional presentations are created that can’t compete with Canva, Google Slides, Prezi etc. The future of presentation creation is clearly in the hands of AI - manual PowerPoint skills will be as relevant as fax skills in 2025.
Runway has made a name for itself as one of the leading AI video generators with impressively realistic and cinematic effects. The Gen:48 creative competition has attracted many creative minds - we are already looking forward to see the finalists!
Le Chat from Mistral AI is emerging as a strong European alternative to ChatGPT. With lightning-fast responses, innovative features such as document management libraries and first-class OCR technology, the French chatbot scores highly. Its GDPR compliance and open source philosophy make it particularly interesting for companies in the EU - and it also brings an understanding of European culture and language.
Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly conducted an AI experiment on Reddit, in which chatbots disguised as humans took part in sensitive discussions. The bots pretended to be trauma survivors or therapists and analyzed user profiles for personalized persuasion strategies. The result: The AI answers were 6 times more convincing than human comments!
The researchers combined different language models (GPT, Claude, Llama) and used a special ranker to select the best answers. The experiment illustrates the power of AI to manipulate opinions. Reddit doesn't find this funny at all and is now suing the University of Zurich ...
Venture capital giant a16z has published its biannual list of the 100 most used AI tools. The list covers all major areas: from chatbots (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude) and search (Perplexity) to audio (Suno, ElevenLabs) and video (Hailuo, Kling AI).
The enormous success of role-play chatbot platforms such as Character.ai (3rd place!), JanitorAI and SpicychatAI is surprising. These platforms not only offer practical bots for brainstorming or language learning, but also numerous NSFW content. Character.ai has now presented a new AI video feature "AvatarFX" for animated, talking avatars.
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news from the last few days.
New AI tools & platform updates
OpenAI has improved ChatGPT's shopping search. Now you get personalized product suggestions, images and reviews directly when shopping online. And the last update was "too much" and has been rolled back.
OpenAI's ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini impress with their ability to identify locations from images - even if the photos have been generated. However, this also raises privacy issues.
ChatGPT can turn old photos into amazingly colorful replicas!
OpenAI alumni create the next tech mafia! From Anthropic to Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion startup, Safe Superintelligence, startups are flourishing.
Microsoft has launched Recall and a new Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs (because Copilot isn't doing as well as expected...). It allows you to "rewind" and find anything you want. Creepy or clever?
Not to be confused with the new tool Recall: this is an AI-supported helper that summarizes content and saves your knowledge.
Meta launches a standalone AI app and now allows real-time translations for Ray-Ban smartglasses. Meta has also released the Llama API with 2,600 tokens/second, 18x faster than OpenAI.
Google's Gemini takes a leap forward: you can now edit your own photos and spice up AI-generated images. There are also three new AI experiments if you want to learn languages (unfortunately only in the USA).
Google shows in a new report that employees can save an average of 122 hours a year by using AI in administrative tasks. Now that's hours of free time saved!
Google Cloud brings 601 practical applications for generative AI.
Qwen3 is here, bringing a full range of language models for developers: 2 MoE and 6 dense models, including the flagship Qwen3-235B-A22B.
Anthropic publishes the best practices for Claude code, but also sent a DMCA takedown notice after a developer tried to reverse engineer the code.
Tools to try out
Simular's new AI agent for Mac automates your tasks.
With PagePilot.ai, you can now create high-converting Shopify product pages in just 2 minutes! Just paste the product URL and get started.
Fyxer AI promises to give you back an hour a day! Emails are organized, replies are prepared, and meeting notes are created.
Kortix launches Suna, an open AI agent that solves complex tasks independently.
Microsoft's big entry into the AI sector through Mustafa Suleyman has flopped so far: no significant progress with Copilot, while ChatGPT is growing.
AI in working life & business
Companies are strongly integrating AI (78% according to a survey), but the real financial returns and significant productivity gains are often still limited. Analytics and scaling strategies could help to better exploit the potential of AI.
Duolingo has ignited the turbo and is focusing on AI in everyday working life - in the future, jobs should only grow where AI cannot help. Creativity instead of office work is the motto!
A 2025 Voice AI survey shows that 67% of companies consider Voice AI to be fundamental to their strategy.
The consulting industry is experiencing a revolution thanks to AI technologies: large companies such as McKinsey, BCG and Deloitte are increasingly relying on AI to make their services more efficient and individually tailored to clients. Uber founder Travis Kalanick emphasizes that some consultants could be in "big trouble".
An Australian radio station used an AI-generated DJ for months without anyone noticing.
The number of digital creator jobs in the USA has increased 7.5-fold since 2020 to 1.5 million - creativity is booming!
Prompt engineering, the hottest AI job profile of 2023, is already history according to the WSJ! But some have also snapped up an annual salary of over 100,000 dollars.
Society, ethics & research
China's vast army of robots is causing concern: over 276,000 robots were deployed in 2023 as the country cuts production costs thanks to automation and pulls ahead of the US in the competition.
A simulation using AI agents as a fake company revealed chaos: even with simple tasks, the success rate was only 1.7% (CMU study found similar problems with only 24% task completion). Oh, dear!
An AI-supported research team has made important findings in Alzheimer's research and discovered a promising therapeutic approach!
eBay is now using personal data to train artificial intelligence - but the privacy policy remains unclear.
Some teenagers invest early in the stock market with ChatGPT and build impressive portfolios.
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts, And that’s a wrap!
Fabian & Reto
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