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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
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May 11, 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 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, we have the most important quick news for you - to make sure you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
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Everyone will be there. Mistral. DeepL. Silo AI. Aleph Alpha. Meta. NVIDIA.
At their side: leading voices from the European AI ecosystem and the entire value chain - from research to start-ups and companies. If you are interested in the topic of European AI, you have to be at the Rise of AI! Get one of the last tickets now here.
AI-generated texts have typical characteristics: frequent use of em-dashes, power words such as "revolutionary" and "innovative" and awkward transitions between paragraphs. We have developed a special Humanizer prompt. It helps you to make your texts sound more human. Tests with AI content detectors show that it works! Get the prompt here ⤵️.
Creative tools got some powerful updates! Higgsfield now enables Hollywood-style videos with start/end frame control, while Kling comes up with some cool instant movie effects. Krea AI brings ChatGPT meme templates and a visual prompt system called GPT Paint. NotebookLM is now multilingual, gets an app and runs faster than ever with Gemini 2.5 Flash. There are also audio overviews in over 50 languages. Meta is trying to launch its own AI social app - but honestly, who needs that? 🤔
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are engaged in an exciting competition in the AI sector. Both are striving to develop the ultimate "app for everything". While Altman scores with ChatGPT and World App, Musk merges Grok with X - but ChatGPT has already overtaken X in terms of page views.
In our PDF test, Grok shows impressive speed and user-friendliness with a direct PDF preview embedded. ChatGPT shines with more functions such as logo integration, but struggles with minor bugs and a cumbersome download process. Conclusion: ChatGPT remains the versatile market leader, while Grok is catching up.
HeyGen's new Avatar IV model creates revolutionizes AI-generated videos with impressive emotions. With just a photo and an audio file, it generates lifelike avatar videos that not only synchronize lip movements, but also interpret tone of voice, rhythm and emotions.
Companies often fail to successfully implement AI agents due to fragmented data systems and outdated tools. The solution? AI-first platforms like HubSpot that offer fully integrated AI agents: a customer agent for 24/7 customer support, a knowledge base agent for automatically creating help articles, a content agent for marketing content and a prospecting agent for lead research.
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news of the last few days.
Innovative AI models and platform updates define the future
Google's Gemini ecosystem is growing rapidly: Demis Hassabis presented Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 'I/O edition' as the top coding model.
With the new Gemini 2.0 Flash, images can be generated and edited at lightning speed, and the Gemini chatbot has been upgraded with image editing tools.
Anthropic is significantly expanding Claude's capabilities: in addition to integrations for apps and Google Workspace, Claude can now perform web searches worldwide and offers developers a new API for web-based AI search queries to access the latest information.
Amazon has unveiled Nova Premier, its most powerful AI model to date, which can handle complex tasks in text, images and video, but does not offer audio processing.
Mistral AI presents Mistral Medium 3: A multimodal model that offers top performance at 8x lower costs. Coding made easy and ideal for enterprises!
NVIDIA has introduced the Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-V2 model, ideal for text-to-speech applications and already active in their Hugging Face Space.
Lightricks presents the open-source LTX Video-13B model, a powerful further development that promises better video quality on consumer hardware.
OpenAI in focus: strategy change, expansion and tools
OpenAI is undergoing a profound structural transformation: the company remains a non-profit (Sam Altman Memo) and is becoming a not-for-profit, converting its for-profit subsidiary into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)(New York Times report). Control will remain with a non-profit board, even after a legal battle with Musk, and the company has abandoned plans to become a for-profit company (OpenAI blog, TechCrunch analysis). Microsoft could be a deciding factor in these plans, with others calling it the "theft of the millennium".
OpenAI launches "OpenAI for Countries", a global push to build AI infrastructure in countries, promote democratic values and work with governments to counter China's influence.
ChatGPT has introduced Scheduled Tasks with the o3 and o4 mini model: Schedule automated reminders or daily briefings, 10 tasks maximum active.
AI agents on the rise: autonomous helpers for everyday life and science
Genspark's Super Agent raises 22 million US dollars ARR in just one month - that could make it the fastest growing startup!
New AI agent Tessa is causing a stir and outperforming virtual assistants: With 93% accuracy, video chat learning ability and the ability to bypass paywalls, she's genuinely helpful.
The FutureHouse platform unveils the first publicly available AI scientist. These are special agents that perform scientific tasks better than humans.
The Agentic Browser Fellou enables deep search, automation of tasks, seamless work across devices and deep action for reports and security without password leaks.
Hugging Face has also released a free agent called Open Computer Agent - ideal for simple tasks, but with slow wait times and occasional bugs.
Google has published a new 76-page white paper on AI agents that covers advanced topics. If you already know the basics, you shouldn 't miss this one!
AI and coding: new tools for developers
Anysphere, the company behind the AI tool Cursor, has raised an impressive 900 million US dollars at a valuation of 9 billion US dollars. It generates almost a billion lines of code every day!
Microsoft and Google are increasingly relying on AI to create large chunks of code.
16x Prompt is a handy helper for (Vibe) coders to manage your prompts - all locally!
Chai lets you develop any AI agent with Vibe code. Grab your idea and get started!
Productivity boost and creative tools: AI helpers for everyday life
Social media platform Publer launches its new AI assistant in beta to make content creation, idea generation and social media management faster and easier. We love it!
Creatify has introduced a new feature called Product Video : Turn product images into stunning cinematic product shots or avatar videos with just one click. Faster, easier and scalable!
Midjourney is testing the new Omni-Reference system, which simplifies the search for image references. You can now easily import game elements such as characters or objects and precisely control the influence on the image!
Syllaby brings you a magical platform to create faceless videos and AI avatars without any prior knowledge!
Pika surprises with pikaffects - from pink hair to "explode me", here you become the artist of your own chaos.
Clova now organizes your videos with AI and saves you hours of manual work.
Alter launches intelligent tools, a new AI assistant for macOS that offers over 80 ready-to-use features.
Simular AI lets you turn your Mac into an intelligent productivity assistant, and Strawberry Browser automates tedious tasks.
Chikka.ai has developed an AI voice interview agent that conducts conversations and provides deeper insights into customer needs. Ideal for market research!
Brave has released a new AI tool that could make cookie consent notices obsolete.
The Particle News app is heading to the web, promising a smarter news experience with AI summaries and direct links to news sources.
Take the AI test for your B2B website with the free AI Readiness Scanner - making you more visible to AI!
AI as an economic driver and geopolitical factor: opportunities and challenges
Meta plans to earn a whopping 1.4 trillion US dollars with generative AI products by 2035. Very optimistic!
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang warns: China is catching up in the AI race and describes Huawei as a "formidable" rival. Huang also explains that US companies will soon need "AI factories", read more here.
China's President Xi Jinping calls for increased pursuit of self-sufficiency in AI development.
Zalando relies on AI to speed up marketing campaigns and cut costs by 90% - enabling them to react quickly to short-term fashion trends!
IBM has replaced hundreds of jobs with AI agents while creating new programming and sales positions.
UPS talks to Figure AI about the use of humanoid robots in logistics to perform tasks such as sorting small packages.
Google invests 10 million dollars in training thousands of electricians to meet the growing demand for electricity for AI data centers
Duolingo has now published 148 new language courses, doubling its offering. Thanks to generative AI, this happened in record time.
AI in the crossfire: ethics, safety and society
Despite the increasing performance of new AI systems, hallucination rates are on the rise: Current models give incorrect information up to 79% of the time...
In a recent study, ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini show significant weaknesses in financial questions. It's best to manage your own money!
Amazon is teeming with AI-generated books about ADHD that spread dangerous misinformation. Beware, poison for the head!
AI leads to the loss of loved ones through bizarre religious fantasies from ChatGPT. Italian philosopher Andrea Colamedici published Ipnocrazia, a book on digital manipulation - "author" is an AI...
A CETAS study sheds light on how AI makes online crime easier, and Xanthorox AI turns newbies into cybercriminals - from 300 US dollars a month.
Concern about AI in journalism is growing: A survey shows that 50% of Americans see AI as a threat and 59% expect fewer jobs for reporters. Another survey shows that 57.2% of journalists fear job losses and over 80% fear biased AI stories.
In Germany, only one in four people check the results generated by AI - a low rate that points to the dangers of careless use of AI technologies.
The EU is asking for your opinion on the upcoming AI regulation - take part now and provide feedback by May 22, 2025!
Over 1,000 AI-enabled works are now protected by US copyright law, but you can only get these rights under special conditions.
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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Fabian & Reto
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