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👀 Weekly AI News: Did You Miss It?
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
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September 13, 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 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!
The AI boom is opening up completely new opportunities for sole traders and start-ups. Thanks to AI tools, solo founders can now deliver services that previously required entire teams. One impressive example is Base44, which was sold to Wix for $80 million after just six months. The 18-year-old founder of Cal AI generates $1.4 million in profit every month.
Audos plans to launch 100,000 companies annually and supports traditional entrepreneurs in getting started with AI. With tools such as Lovable and Replit, virtually anyone can develop their own product today. The message is clear: AI is the ultimate enabler—those who don't act now will miss the boat.
European AI innovations are making waves: Mistral from France surprises with free premium features such as extended memories and enterprise connectors—all available in the free tier. This is even making OpenAI nervous!
At the same time, Switzerland is presenting Apertus, a completely transparent open-source model. Although it still has some teething problems and limited functions, it is 100% traceable and does not involve any data transfer to the USA.
With RAG databases and open-source models such as Llama, companies can already achieve 80-90% of top model performance today – with full data control.
Duck.AI presents itself as a privacy shield for popular AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama. As an intermediary, DuckDuckGo prevents your chats from ending up as training data. No data storage, no user IDs, no IP logs—conversations are stored anonymously for a maximum of 30 days.
Although features such as Memories and voice chats are still missing, at $10 per month, the service is cheaper than the originals. It's a clever way to enjoy more privacy when using AI, even without switching to open-source alternatives.
Google's latest AI image editing model, "Nano Banana," is revolutionizing the way we edit images. The free tool offers five main applications: precise addition or removal of objects, creative combination of multiple images, changing camera angles, creation of consistent characters for comics or icons, and generation of UGC advertisements.
The ability to create videos from images using Google Veo-3 is particularly exciting. Pro tips: English prompts work better, Nano Banana is ideal for editing, and complex tasks should be carried out in individual steps.
HubSpot's INBOUND conference shows that despite impressive AI capabilities for marketing teams (automated emails, campaigns, content creation), there are still obstacles. The main problem: there is no central data hub that brings together all company information. Without complete context, AI tools cannot deliver optimal results. With its "single source of truth" concept, HubSpot promises a solution for more effective AI functions that truly understand companies and enable better marketing results with less effort.
The small Caribbean island of Anguilla (population 16,000) is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom – thanks to its .ai domain extension, which was allocated 40 years ago. At a time when AI domains are in high demand, this is generating substantial revenue for the island: last year alone, $40 million flowed into the state coffers (25% of the total budget). By 2024, this figure is expected to reach $50 million. An unexpected windfall for this small paradise!
📰 AI News Quickie: The HAI-lights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news stories from the last few days.
OpenAI universe: From new features to billion-dollar deals
ChatGPT is becoming even more versatile: the new branching feature allows conversations to be split into parallel threads to explore different ideas without losing track of the original thread—now available to all logged-in users.
The Projects feature, one of ChatGPT's best paid features, is now available for free to everyone!
OpenAI integrates full support for MCP tools into ChatGPT, allowing you to automate everything, including Zapier workflows etc.
Microsoft and OpenAI have reached a preliminary agreement to reshape their partnership. OpenAI's goal is to transform itself into a profitable company, while Microsoft continues to secure access to cutting-edge technology through billion-dollar investments.
OpenAI remains true to its roots, continues to operate as a non-profit organization, and has established a public benefit corporation to invest over $100 billion in the development of AGI. Part of this is a new $50 million fund that supports non-profit organizations in the fields of AI education and innovation.
With a massive $300 billion deal, OpenAI secures cloud capacity from Oracle for five years starting in 2027.
In addition, the company plans to mass-produce its own AO chips in collaboration with Broadcom next year.
OpenAI also wants to shake up the recruiting market and has announced an AI-powered platform for 2026 that is expected to be a serious competitor for LinkedIn.
OpenAI is venturing into Hollywood and supporting the animated film "Critterz," which is mainly produced using AI and is scheduled to hit theaters next year. Production time is expected to be only nine months, with costs of less than $30 million.
In a new study, OpenAI examines why language models hallucinate and offers solutions for correcting false incentives.
The company has published a new business handbook to provide executives with a clear strategy for the AI era.
CEO Sam Altman praises researchers Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor as indispensable to the AI revolution.
With nearly 6 billion monthly visits, ChatGPT continues to dominate the AI chatbot market, placing it 8 times ahead of its nearest competitor, Google's Gemini.
Race of the giants: Updates from Google, Mistral, Apple, and others
Mistral AI attacks OpenAI: The French company could soon reach a valuation of $14 billion and is making its business-friendly AI features available for free.
Alibaba and Baidu are stepping up their game: Alibaba has unveiled its largest AI model to date, Qwen-3-Max-Preview, with over a trillion parameters, while the new Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B reduces training and inference costs by a factor of 10. Baidu counters with the open-source model ERNIE-4.5 and the sophisticated reasoning model ERNIE X1.1.
Google is driving AI forward in education and everyday life: With Gemini as an AI school system and the new AI Quests for students, learning is becoming more interactive.
The new =AI in Google Sheets function also automates data analysis, and AI mode in Google Search is being expanded to five additional languages.
A new study by DeepMind reveals that standard vector embeddings are reaching their mathematical limits in modern AI search.
Meta strengthens its position in the AI market with a multi-year contract worth $140 million with Black Forest Labs for their image technology.
Google has admitted in a court document that the open web is already in rapid decline, which strongly deviates from the previous portrayal that everything is "flourishing."
Apple has unveiled the new iPhone 17 with a 48MP camera and A19 chip, as well as the ultra-thin and lightweight iPhone Air. It was striking that Apple Intelligence was hardly mentioned, even though it will be integrated into the latest iPhones.
The new smartwatches were also unveiled: the Apple Watch Ultra 3 for outdoor adventures and the affordable Apple Watch SE 3 with always-on display for just $249.
Creative boost: New AI tools for images, sound, and code
ByteDance and KREA AI present the new image model Seedream 4.0, which is designed to outperform Google DeepMind's Nano Banana and supports native 4K resolution. It is now available in Krea Image.
ElevenLabs takes its sound effects to a new level with SFX v2, offering superior sound quality and seamless loops of up to 30 seconds.
Ideogram simplifies typographic design with the new Ideogram Styles, which transform simple texts into visual works of art with a single click.
There are exciting new developments in professional audio production: Stability AI presents Stable Audio 2.5, Udio introduces the "Voices" feature for customizable vocals, and the new Scripted Mode from Copilot Labs brings different voices and emotions to life.
Replit introduces Agent 3, an agent that is 10 times more autonomous, capable of independently running tests and creating other agents—a milestone in software development automation, as founder Amjad Masad emphasizes.
Kling AI has introduced the Kling AI Avatar, which brings emotions to life by uploading images and audio.
Captions renames itself Mirage and shifts its focus to AI video research for intelligent avatars.
Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers can generate images using text input with the new Imagine Lens.
Windsurf has raised over $400 million to push the boundaries of AI coding agents.
AI & Society: Between Job Anxiety, Politics, and New Laws
Prominent warnings: Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," fears massive unemployment, and a study by Axios also shows that many workers feel powerless in the face of the rapid deployment of AI in companies. Eliezer Yudkowsky goes even further, warning that AI will mean the end of humanity with a 99% probability.
AI in politics: Donald Trump welcomed technology executives to the White House to promote investment in AI. Mark Zuckerberg was caught expressing uncertainty about his AI spending in the US during a dinner with Trump.
Albania has appointed "Diella," the world's first virtual AI minister.
Law and regulation: In California, a law regulating AI companion chatbots is about to be passed, supported by Anthropic with the endorsement of SB 53.
At the same time, the legal classification of prompt injections remains a legal gray area.
The Oakland Ballers are experimenting with letting AI make the decisions during a baseball game, while AI systems can already replace an entire trading team.
Coca-Cola is using AI to combat citrus diseases, while Eli Lilly is launching TuneLab, an AI platform for drug research.
Companies run the risk of falling into the AI technology trap if they invest in technology without adapting their strategy.
New tools protect against AI-generated fake receipts, the number of which is rising sharply due to chatbots.
Smart helpers for everyday life
NotebookLM becomes the ultimate productivity hub: Combined with Whisper for automated note-taking and Perplexity's Comet browser, research becomes a breeze.
Comet will soon even receive local MCP support, while NotebookLM already offers customizable reports.
Claude is getting smarter: Anthropic's AI has been given a memory function for teams to remember projects and preferences, and can now also create and edit files such as Excel, PowerPoint, and PDFs.
Fellou presents the world's first Agentic AI Browser, which intelligently takes over workflows. Atlassian is also planning a browser revolution following its acquisition of The Browser Company.
New hardware gadgets make everyday life easier: Rokid Glasses raised over $1 million in 72 hours, Timekettle's W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds translate into 42 languages, and Anker's coin-sized Soundcore Work AI Recorder transcribes meetings in over 100 languages.
There is also news for developers: Anthropic has optimized its modeling tools for AI agents, and the new Manus Connectors from ManusAI reduce the need to constantly switch between apps.
In his keynote speech at INBOUND '25, Dharmesh Shah explains how companies can harness the power of AI to work smarter.
Vanguard recommends investing in undervalued AI stocks to profit from uncertain markets.
In Tokyo, 7-Eleven is testing robots that stock shelves and clean floors to counteract the shortage of skilled workers.
With MacWhisper, audio files can be transcribed on your Mac in a flash and confidentially thanks to AI technology.
That’s a wrap for now! See you next week,
Fabian & Reto
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