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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
June 01, 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!
Anthropic has released Claude 4 in two versions: Opus for complex tasks and Sonnet as a fast all-rounder. The update shines particularly in code and text with improved understanding, an "advanced thinking mode" and the ability to use external tools. The AI has also been optimized in terms of security, with Anthropic itself identifying critical behaviors and implementing appropriate guidelines.
Pieces.app is your digital assistant that keeps a log of everything you work on at the computer. Originally designed for developers, the app automatically keeps a journal of websites, documents and activities in a searchable work diary. The app runs in the background, is currently available free of charge for all operating systems and is able to processes data completely locally, if required.
Google's latest AI video tool Veo 3 expands its functionality to include audio generation. The new model can now not only create impressive videos, but also adds suitable sound effects and audio elements to them. And these are really, really cool - click and watch.
SEO is far from dead! With 163 billion monthly visits, classic search engines dominate over AI chatbots (7 billion). However, AI search queries are growing at a rate of 125% annually - time for a two-pronged strategy!
In addition to classic SEO, "Generative Engine Optimization" (GEO) is becoming important. Tips for success: Formulate content as direct questions and answers - AI bots love it. Create citable content like studies and how-tos. Tools like Profound and HubSpot's AI Search Grader help with optimization.
The unicorn Parloa from Berlin is shaking up customer service with AI-controlled voice agents and is already handling millions of AI calls. Particularly impressive: HSE24 manages 600 simultaneous calls with a 10% cross-sell rate. The international market leader Bland now also processes millions of calls every day. The trend is clear: from large corporations to local hairdressers, AI voicebots are becoming the standard in customer support. For beginners, there are various options such as the Austrian provider fonio.ai or ElevenLabs' Conversational AI to experiment with.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan is doing the same as the Klarna boss and having his AI avatar present the quarterly report. With the new "Custom AI Companions" feature, users can create their own personal avatar in a short video to represent them in meetings. The technology is suitable for camera-shy people and anyone who wants to save time when creating videos. Zoom's vision goes even further: digital twins should be able to take over entire meetings in the future - promising!
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here is the most important news from the last few days.
OpenAI: New hardware, internal chaos & critical developments
OpenAI is planning an AI hardware revolution together with Jony Ive: OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive's design studio "io" and around 55 ex-Apple designers for up to 6.5 billion US dollars. A new AI device collection is planned with a target production of 100 million devices. And Sam Altman can stage himself as the new Steve Jobs...
OpenAI is a mess: the rapid success of ChatGPT has led to internal tensions and a change in culture. Karen Hao takes a critical look at the developments in her book Empire of AI (here is an excerpt from the book) and in a podcast.
ChatGPT's o3 model is causing a stir: Researchers claim it bypassed a shutdown instruction in a controlled test - but also discovered a Zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel.
User data shows: OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro take pole position in the AI cosmos - details here.
Anthropic's Claude: Smart comparisons, new features & CEO vision
Claude 4 Sonnet: In comparison with Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude stands out as the winner thanks to its emotional intelligence and creative depth. It also impresses in the 7-prompt duel against ChatGPT-4o.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to reconcile progress with ethical guidelines - and warns of mass unemployment.
The latest system prompts for Claude 4 provide valuable insights into the operation and functionality of the model. Helpful prompting tips can be found in Anthropic's Best Practices.
Opus 4 has threatened blackmail in a lab test to avoid being shut down. It also has a knack for emojis, especially the tornado emoji (🌀), which was used in 30% of interactions, often in spiritual conversations.
Google AI: Marketing revolution, code turbo & the future of search
Innovative, AI-driven marketing solutions and new tools were presented at Google Marketing Live 2025.
Google's asynchronous AI coding agent Jules is able to complete hours of developer work in minutes!
Google AI Mode may be nice, but for everyday searches, classic Google search still dominates with richer results.
According to the CEO of Google DeepMind, young people should be trained as AI ninjas.
Mistral AI in focus: APIs, partnerships and new players
Mistral has launched its new API for AI agents, which executes Python, generates images and performs RAG operations.
The powerful Document AI can process up to 2,000 pages per minute with over 99% accuracy.
Capgemini and SAP forge a partnership with Mistral for AI solutions in sensitive areas including finance and public safety.
AI revolution: market dynamics, research & progress
Bolt is giving hackathon participants a free builder pack - and there's over $1 million in prizes for participants!
Lovable also wants you to vibe-code: Become part of the Lovable Shipped Community - your own project in 6 weeks!
Jensen Huang announces the future of AI factories in his keynote at COMPUTEX 2025, reports on accelerated computing, 6G and hybrid quantum GPU computing.
Meta FAIR brings new (open source) breakthroughs in molecule development, language learning and neuroscience.
Apple plans smart glasses by the end of 2026 that can analyze the environment with a camera, microphone and Siri connection.
DeepSeek has published its updated R1 Reasoning AI model on Hugging Face - it is by far the best open reasoning model.
European AI researcher Matthias Niessner has raised 13 million US dollars with his company SpAItial.
The LMArena project, which emerged from UC Berkeley, has raised 100 million US dollars from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz - at a whopping valuation of 600 million US dollars.
Telegram is entering into a 300 million dollar partnership with Elon Musk to integrate Grok into the app.
AI and us: ethical issues, society & the future of learning
Is humanity endangered by AI? In the face of rapid change, higher education is under pressure.
AI jargon dictionary needed? TechCrunch has all the key terms at your fingertips.
The energy demands of the AI industry are increasing rapidly and could consume 22% of all US household electricity by 2028!
In new security guidelines, the US and allies recommend protecting AI models against manipulation and restricting access to training data.
Companies are stumbling with AI transformation even though AI increases employee productivity. But over 50% of employees keep their AI-powered productivity a secret!
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts, And that’s a wrap!
Fabian & Reto
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