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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
June 07, 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 from 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!
FLUX.1 Context understands text and images, enabling precise image editing with simple text commands. With amazing speed and precision, you can change scenes, combine images and adjust text - all with perfect character consistency.
Compared to competitors such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini, FLUX delivers superior results, is up to 8x faster and even cheaper. And impressively proves that German AI expertise is a world-class player.
Our new Custom GPT analyzes your usage behavior and memory to create tailor-made custom instructions for YOU. It also guides you through important questions that best capture the way you work and communicate.
The result is personalized presets that make ChatGPT your perfect AI assistant - with fewer standard answers and more real sparring at your level. Many AINAUTS were enthusiastic - try it out, it's worth it!
Greg Isenberg rocks "My First Million"! The Startup Ideas podcast host shares his concentrated AI expertise and even silences and amazes the usually talkative Sam Parr. Greg shows concrete tools, practical workflows and clever strategies on how AI is revolutionizing the everyday life of creators. No empty promises, but tangible tips for anyone who wants to use AI seriously. Absolutely worth seeing!
A viral video of a kangaroo with a boarding pass waiting patiently in an airport queue has taken the internet by storm. The deceptively real footage was created using the new Google Veo-3 AI model and has fooled millions of people despite being AI-labeled.
Meta is planning to fully automate the advertising process, with brands only having to upload a product image and set a budget. The AI then automatically creates the entire campaign - from texts to videos.
One example of this development is Arcads, a tool for creating avatar-based UGC videos. With 35 languages and a large selection of authentic avatars, professional advertising videos can be created quickly - for around 10 euros per video instead of hundreds of euros for real content creators. Will this soon make many traditional marketing agencies redundant?
This article explains two effective prompts for creating UGC ads with AI. Claude 4 is perfect for this, but the competitors also deliver great ad scripts with the right prompt. The prompts cover everything: creation of creator types, generation of script variants, self-assessment, optimization and final champion script. Various storytelling frameworks such as PAS or Before/After are tested.
Firecrawl's new /search feature revolutionizes web search: It combines search and scraping in one go. Unlike ChatGPT, which only searches superficially, Firecrawl delivers the complete content of all result pages in Markdown, HTML or as a screenshot. Perfect for AI agents and automation workflows, with integrations for Zapier, Make and n8n.
And with the coupon code "11-v3-AIENGINEER" you get 50,000 instead of 500 credits as a bonus on top. Ideal for your GPTs, assistants and AI automations.
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news from the last few days.
OpenAI & ChatGPT - Developments and controversies
OpenAI wants to develop ChatGPT into the ultimate "super assistant" that recognizes your personal needs and solves complex everyday problems! Here are the details, and here is a look into the future.
ChatGPT continues to upgrade: New features include meeting recordings, cloud integrations (Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, Box, Teams, etc.), connections to internal tools, 1 Euro promotion for Teams, etc.
OpenAI defends itself against an injunction in the copyright dispute with the New York Times. This demands that all chats be saved - a nightmare for the privacy of millions of users.
OpenAI has stopped various malicious influence operations linked to China and other countries - a step towards greater transparency.
Mary Meeker observes ChatGPT's explosive user growth and global tech momentum in her new trends report. Conclusion: OpenAI has the top position, but the competitive pressure is higher than ever!
The drama surrounding Sam Altman at OpenAI is being made into a movie: Luca Guadagnino is directing the movie"Artificial", which sheds light on the turbulent time surrounding Altman's dismissal.
In her biography "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future", Keach Hagey sheds light on how the OpenAI CEO is predestined for the future of AI, but questions the stability of OpenAI's structure. Other books also shed light on critical aspects of AI.
OpenAI introduces an Outbound Coordinated Disclosure Policy to responsibly report security vulnerabilities in third-party software.
Google & Gemini - innovations and strategies
Google rolls out the new AI Mode in search, which answers complex questions smarter and clearer and enables natural language input. The rollout of Ask Photos was paused because the results were not good enough.
Google doubles the usage limit for Gemini 2.5 Pro in the test phase, which means more questions and answers for users.
Google's Gemini can now summarize video content in Google Drive , and long emails in Gmail.
You can now also share your NotebookLM notebooks publicly. More info here, on upgrading and sharing.
Google has clarified that ads can appear either above/below or within AI Overviews, but not at the same time.
Google presents the magic mirror, which enables real-time conversations, storytelling and image generation with Gemini models.
Google has secretly released the Google AI Edge Gallery - an app that allows users to run AI models locally on their smartphone.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai does not see AI as a threat to employees, but as a productivity booster and job engine.
Anthropic & Claude - More power and integrations
Anthropic is rolling out pre-built integrations with remote MCP for all paid Claude.ai plans and opening a beta program for custom integrations. Claude can connect apps to support workflows holistically - up to 45 minutes of research included!
Claude.ai is also getting an upgrade with a new research function for in-depth information collection and analysis.
Also projects on Claude now support 10x more content! Very nice.
Anthropic's Claude Gov models are custom AI models designed specifically for US National Security customers to support planning and intelligence analysis.
Anthropic launches the blog Claude Explains, where the AI model Claude explains technical topics with human oversight.
Anthropic's co-founder Jared Kaplan confirms the restriction of access to the Claude AI model for Windsurf: "It would be strange to sell Claude to OpenAI".
AI-supported productivity and the changing world of work
More and more employees are secretly using GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, although 42% keep this a secret. 40% of employees experience an increase in productivity as a result - this is practical, but transparency would be more efficient and secure.
Don't panic! A PwC study shows: AI makes workers more valuable, not less, creates more jobs and increases salaries. And according to Atkinson, AI robots will not take all our jobs.
But an economic downturn could encourage companies to accelerate the use of AI in order to reduce costs and increase productivity. The consequences are then: precisely, job losses...
New AI models, tools & platforms
Perplexity AI launches Perplexity Labs for Pro subscribers to create comprehensive reports, presentations, apps and dynamic dashboards in minutes. A really cool upgrade!
The new Eleven v3 (alpha) model from ElevenLabs delivers the most human text-to-speech experience yet. In addition, Claude Sonnet 4 AI voice agents were released and Multimodal Conversational AI for more interactive communication was introduced.
With Higgsfield Speak, you can choose a stylish avatar, enter a script and get back moving videos with emotion and voice.
Luma AI introduces Modify Video, a tool that gives you control over style, character and setting.
AI video generator Runway partners with AMC Networks to integrate AI models into their marketing and TV development.
DeepSeek-R1-0528 offers improved benchmark performance, reduced hallucinations and support for JSON output. Try it now!
ManusAI launches a video generation tool for full stories with scenes and animations, and launches Manus Slides for great presentations.
Token Monster launches the alpha version of its platform, which automatically combines the best LLMs for requests and thus simplifies interaction with AI models. Great concept, unfortunately without credit to test ...
Microsoft presents the Bing Video Creator, which converts your prompts into free videos.
Anysphere, maker of the popular AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a valuation of $9.9 billion.
Phonely's new AI agents achieve 99.2% accuracy and don't even let customers know they're not human - wow!
Mistral launches Mistral Code in private beta, an AI "vibe coding" client to compete against GitHub Copilot and co.
Figma launches the Dev Mode MCP Server in beta testing, which enables more efficient translation from design to code.
HubSpot integrates a Research Connector to ChatGPT - allowing you to analyze your customer data and develop marketing strategies.
AI in focus: society, ethics and safety
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio founds a non-profit organization for "honest" AI to identify systems that deceive people.
Cybercriminals disguise themselves as providers of AI tools and spread dangerous malware, including the CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware.
With "vibe hacking", even inexperienced users are given access to powerful malicious AI tools...
And many AI security strategies are already managed again.
GLYPH is an exciting Unicode steganography tool that hides messages in plain text - and can give hidden instructions to chatbots...
And with the ChatGPT Watermark Remover you can remove hidden watermarked characters from AI-generated texts.
Major music labels are in negotiations with AI start-ups Udio and Suno to license their works and compensate artists appropriately.
China has sent the first cluster of a planned AI supercomputer constellation into space with the launch of 12 satellites.
China also hosted the first robot kickboxing competition! Four humanoid robots fought in a competition, controlled by humans.
AI trends, research & knowledge exchange
The Rise of AI Conference 2025 presents the visions for AGI, industry and society as well as the future of AI in Europe. Videos of the top speakers are available here and further details about the event here.
Attention Viennese! TEDAI Vienna will take place from September 24 to 26, 2025.
The 340-page BOND study highlights the trends in the AI world and has recommendations for companies to take better advantage of the benefits.
Y Combinator has published a video with tips on prompting AI agents.
Perplexity received a whopping 780 million requests in May, with monthly growth of over 20%! And the Comet browser should soon help to further ignite this growth rocket.
The New York Times has signed a license agreement with Amazon to use its editorial content for AI platforms.
In an exciting experiment, 18 AI models challenged each other in a game of Diplomacy: The best stand out through deception and intrigue!
Microsoft launches its AI model Aurora, a weather-accurate and cost-effective weather forecast.
Amazon has launched a new research group that will focus on Agentic AI and robotics. The aim: more skills for warehouse robots!
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts, And that’s a wrap!
Fabian & Reto
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