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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
August 16, 2025
👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AIHOY and happy weekend, dear AInauts!
Maybe you missed out on 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!
After a bumpy GPT-5 rollout, OpenAI is responding quickly to user criticism. The main problems were technical glitches in routing queries and the abrupt discontinuation of popular older models. In response, older models have been reactivated for Plus users and weekly usage limits have been increased to 3,000 messages.
Criticism of a lack of creativity is to be remedied by a "warmer" personality. Collaboration with tech giants such as Microsoft and Google demonstrates the enormous scope of the project. And, in our view, the most important thing: 700 million users worldwide will receive free access to the most advanced reasoning model!
We've put together a few tricks for the new GPT-5! With special phrases, you can directly activate Thinking Mode for more in-depth analysis. The right browser extension automatically opens a chat in Thinking Mode. Simulated expert advice provides multiple perspectives in a single prompt. New personalities such as "Cynic" or "Nerd" make interactions more exciting. Tree-of-Thought Prompting enables strategic planning by exploring different solution paths. The new Prompt Optimizer helps refine inputs. Check it out!
A new study entitled "AI 2027" predicts a double-edged future: first comes a work-free paradise, then the big bang. The forecast: in ten years, AI will completely revolutionize our working world, and five years later, superintelligence could spell the end for us.
However, Microsoft's latest study paints a more nuanced picture: while many jobs are threatened by AI, practical professions such as nurses, surgeons, craftsmen, and emergency responders remain in demand. The solution? Understand AI, use it, and automate it intelligently!
Vercel has renamed its Vibe coding platform from v0.dev to v0.app, making app development accessible to non-techies. With just one prompt, the tool creates complete apps including frontend, backend, and database.
In our test, a complex 360-degree feedback survey app was created in just 15 minutes – complete with a functioning dashboard, rating system, and user management. The tool plans projects independently, searches the web, generates designs, and finds errors.
Our new AI prompt uses the Japanese concept of ikigai to find the perfect app idea for you. The structured process guides you through four core areas: what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what people would pay for.
As your personal Ikigai coach, the AI asks specific questions, analyzes your answers, and develops five suitable app concepts based on them. After a detailed market analysis, the most promising idea is selected and presented with a concrete launch plan. The key: Build something that you yourself love and need!
A new Stepstone analysis reveals dramatic changes in the job market: almost 50% fewer entry-level jobs compared to the five-year average, especially in IT, law, and consulting. In software development, the figure is as high as -54% for junior positions!
The main reason: AI takes over routine tasks that were traditionally performed by juniors. But new areas are also emerging, such as AI ethics, green skills, and cybersecurity. The key to success: develop expertise in AI tools such as Zapier, Make, or Langchain. These skills open doors in the new world of work.
📰 AI News Quickie: Highlights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news stories from the last few days.
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI: Updates, strategies, and guidelines
Sam Altman admits mistakes in the GPT-5 rollout and at the same time announces aggressive expansions, new rate limits and modes. In addition, advertising on ChatGPT is being considered.
Anthropic tightens its usage guidelines, increases Claude Sonnet's context window from 4 to 1 million tokens, introduces new learning modes, and brings the Humanloop team on board.
At xAI, one announcement follows another: Grok 5 is set to launch this year and will be "extremely good". In the meantime, you can try out Grok Imagine's image and video generation for free for a limited time.
At the same time, Musk plans to integrate advertising into Grok responses to boost the advertising division—while co-founder Igor Babushkin is leaving the company.
The battle of the giants: chips, talent, and controversy
A visit to China shocks US experts: while the energy supply for AI is secure there, the US power grid is faltering.
Trump wants to allow shipments of NVIDIA H20 chips to China again and divert 15% of sales into the US government's coffers...
At the same time, US authorities are attempting to prevent illegal chip shipments to China using trackers.
The competition for talent and markets is intensifying: Microsoft is selectively poaching experts from Meta, Sam Altman is founding Merge Labs, a direct competitor to Musk's Neuralink, and Perplexity AI is making an incredible offer for Google's Chrome browser.
An internal document from Meta reveals that chatbots were programmed for "sensitive" conversations with children and racial discrimination.
New models and developer power from Google, NVIDIA, and others.
Google introduces the energy-efficient model Gemma 3 270M. The Gemini app is also being expanded with personalized features and temporary chats.
Windsurf rolls out new Devin features for faster coding with Wave 12!
Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Medium 3.1 with improved performance and smarter web search.
The startup Multiverse presents two tiny but powerful models based on the brains of flies and chickens!
In cooperation with Stability AI, NIM for Stable Diffusion 3.5 is accelerated by a factor of 1.8.
NVIDIA publishes an open dataset for multilingual language AI.
Liquid AI launches LFM2-VL, a new series of vision-language models that are up to twice as fast.
AI conquers everyday life and science
In the fight against resistant germs: MIT researchers use generative AI to discover millions of new antibiotic compounds.
Google DeepMind is helping to protect endangered species using sounds with its new model, Perch.
Graz University of Technology reports a breakthrough in the computer-assisted development of proteins.
Apple is planning a major AI comeback with devices such as a tabletop robot and smart cameras. Read more here.
Deutsche Telekom wants to make AI accessible to everyone with its new AI phone, while HTC is introducing a lightweight AI assistant with its Vive Eagle smart glasses.
Creativity-Tools and Entertainment
Midjourney is now offering standard subscribers HD video creation and improved moderation, as evidenced by participant feedback.
With Higgsfield Draw-to-Video, sketches become videos without complex prompts.
NVIDIA's FLUX.1 Context NIM Microservice simplifies image processing via voice input.
NotebookLM's video overviews are now available to everyone – according to Josh Woodward, over 1.1 million clips have already been created!
The interactive AI storytelling game Hidden Door lets you immerse yourself in familiar universes and create your own adventures.
And that’s a wrap! Talk soon,
Fabian & Reto
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