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👀 Weekly AI News: Did You Miss It?
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
November 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 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!
With modern AI tools such as ChatGPT Codex or Claude Code, browser extensions can now be created in a flash and without any programming knowledge. The process is simpler than you think: prompt your idea, generate code, test locally, and fix any errors if necessary. Practical examples from us: Google Photos Batch Saver, Netflix Category Explorer, or Web Clipper with Webhook connection. Your turn!
With Shared Projects, ChatGPT is evolving from a solo tool into a true collaboration platform. Teams can now work together in chats, share files, and set project-specific instructions. Each project has its own memory, ensuring a clear separation between different workspaces.
Particularly exciting: OpenAI is secretly expanding ChatGPT into a social network. Leaks point to upcoming features such as profiles, DMs, and followers. Together with Sam Altman's World project, this could give rise to a new digital platform that combines work, identity, and social interaction.
Uber is bridging the waiting times of its drivers in the US with a side income program: drivers can now complete digital tasks, from AI data labeling to uploading restaurant menus. Drivers earn extra cash while Uber expands its AI database. A win-win situation or the last move before the era of robot taxis?
The new Claude Memory feature learns and stores your personal preferences! Each project gets its own "brain." The best part: you can import your ChatGPT memory directly into Claude!
Either export via the settings or use the chat command "Write out your memories". Paste into Claude and activate with "Incorporate these memories". Use "Show me all your memories" to check the result.
Industry in Germany is cutting jobs on a massive scale—over 114,000 jobs since mid-2024 alone. The automotive industry has seen a decline of 6% within a year, and the ifo Institute is forecasting further job cuts.
Grokipedia is now a completely AI-written "Wikipedia" – and it is already proving highly polarizing. Real-time updates, automatic source evaluation, and an "Ask Grok" button make learning exciting, but political bias cannot be ruled out... The mixture of fascination and skepticism makes the platform an interesting experience. Try it out and form your own opinion!
Google presents Pomelli, an exciting AI Lab experiment for marketing professionals. The tool automatically generates social media campaigns by analyzing the website URL and creating a brand DNA from it. In just three minutes, it conjures up tailor-made creatives that can be easily customized.
📰 AI News Quickie: The HAI-lights from the industry
AI never sleeps! Here are the most important news stories from the last few days—there's been a lot going on... So, to get you in the mood, here's a belated Happy Halloween! 🎃
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8:49 PM • Oct 31, 2025
OpenAI: New corporate structure and big plans
OpenAI's new direction is cemented: Following a completed recapitalization, the non-profit foundation controls a public benefit corporation with equity capital of ~$130 billion; $25 billion is being invested in health and AI resilience so that AGI can benefit everyone.
A mega IPO with a valuation of up to $1 trillion is expected from 2026/2027!
OpenAI plans massive investments in its infrastructure: The talk is of 1 trillion US dollars per year, Partnerships with Oracle ($300 billion), Nvidia ($100 billion) and AMD have already been closed.
Microsoft and OpenAI are deepening their partnership. Microsoft now holds ~27% of OpenAI (value: $135 billion), securing Azure compute revenues of $250 billion and exclusive API rights until AGI.
The goal is to generate hundreds of billions in annual revenue and develop an autonomous "AI researcher" by 2028 (update in livestream).
Regulation & Monopoly Concerns: Bernie Sanders wants to break up OpenAI.
The Sora app is becoming more accessible: it is available without an invite code in the US, Canada, Japan, and Korea, and you can purchase extra credits.
A GitHub repo has collected over 100 cool Sora prompts.
In addition, Character Cameos is a feature for consistent characters in AI videos—but the provider Cameo is already suing, as reported by Engadget.
Thanks to collaboration with over 170 experts, ChatGPT responds much better in sensitive conversations and refers users to hotlines.
A new ChatGPT Atlas browser exploit enables data theft—here is an open-source alternative.
OpenAI acquires Sky developer Software Applications Incorporated: The acquisition integrates deep macOS features directly into ChatGPT, enabling the AI to understand the screen and operate apps.
Company Knowledge launches for corporate, enterprise, and education customers: ChatGPT can now access internal tools such as Slack, Drive, and SharePoint.
OpenAI is recruiting former investment bankers for $150/hour in Project Mercury to train its financial analysis models.
OpenAI and PayPal are forming an alliance for AI shopping: Instant Checkout will be integrated directly into ChatGPT, enabling purchases from millions of PayPal merchants via chat starting in 2026.
OpenAI is apparently planning to enter the field of AI music generation and could thus become a direct competitor to Suno.
Google: Gemini power for search, apps, and the real world
With the October update, Gemini can create presentations and analyze multiple tables in Google Sheets. Gemini Nano Banana also appears in web searches and on Lens.
Google improves NotebookLM Chat with saved chat history and a 1 million token context window for research.
Google's creative tool Mixboard is being expanded to over 180 countries. The boards enable brainstorming with AI-generated text and images.
"Vibe Coding" is also becoming a reality in AI Studio: 17 building blocks from Nano Banana to Veo Video are easy to use, so give it a try.
Google's first completely AI-generated advertisement features a plush turkey and demonstrates the power of Veo 3.
Gemini CLI gets a coding sidekick with the Jules extension
The Startup School session shows you how to build agentic apps with Gemini.
Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on smart speakers.
Gemini in Google Earth! This allows complex questions about environmental data to be asked. The Earth AI models are rolled out in cloud tests and pro plans.
Anthropic: Claude on the rise
Claude gets a memory: A new memory feature for teams saves projects and preferences, making collaboration more efficient.
With Claude Skills, users can now create specialized, reusable instructions to optimize Claude for specific tasks.
Claude Code was created as a random by-product and now also works in the browser—it can even work autonomously for hours on end.
The VS Code extension and availability in Terminal make developers' lives easier.
Anthropic equips Claude with new enterprise capabilities, including an Excel add-in, real-time data connectors, and skills for the financial industry.
Economy & labor market: Change is coming
The AI boom is heating up the markets: Nvidia is the first company to break through the $5 trillion valuation barrier and has secured a $1 billion stake in Nokia.
NVIDIA and Oracle are building the world's largest AI supercomputer for the US Department of Energy to accelerate research.
Is this a boom or a bubble? According to NYT analyses, AI is driving 80% of US stock market gains, the WIRED analysis gives it 8/8 bubble points, and even Bill Gates sees parallels with the dot-com era.
The GenAI Signal Tracker shows $121.5 billion in YTD investments.
Jobs under pressure: Amazon plans to cut up to 30,000 office jobs, bringing the "AI job apocalypse" five years closer.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emphasizes that the layoffs are due to a change in corporate culture and not to AI.
Goldman Sachs warns: AI could automate 300 million jobs, particularly in administration (46%) and law (44%).
Despite warnings, a Fortune analysis shows that the current decline in jobs (-30% since ChatGPT) is less due to AI than to interest rates and tariffs.
Forrester predicts that 50% of AI-related dismissals will be reversed, as 55% of bosses regret their decision.
At the major bank BNY Mellon, over 100 "digital employees" from the Eliza platform already work with their own email addresses and logins.
Security, ethics & society: Critics are getting louder
Over 65,000 people, including AI pioneers such as Hinton and Bengio, support the Superintelligence Statement, which calls for a moratorium on the development of superintelligence until safety issues have been resolved.
Distrust and manipulation: 82% of herbal medicine guides on Amazon could be AI-generated.
One in every eleven US newspaper articles is written by AI without this being made transparent.
A counter-movement of students, techies, and creative types rejects AI for privacy and environmental reasons.
At the same time, AI is being aggressively integrated into products, with distribution often trumping product quality.
A threat to democracy? Norway's local newspaper iTromsø uses AI bots to scour government files and strengthen local reporting.
Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered alternative to Wikipedia.
Media, Music & Games: Rumblings in the entertainment industry
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Stability AI forge a strategic alliance for professional, fully licensed AI music tools.
At the same time, UMG is ending its legal dispute with Udio and closing a deal for a licensed AI music platform, which is set to launch in 2026.
Udio opened a 48-hour download window for existing songs.
Higgsfield drops the AI storyboard tool Popcorn with character consistency.
Canva revs up editable layouts with a new design model. The Creative Operating System provides a comprehensive marketing workspace for video, data widgets, and analytics.
Meta wants to flood feeds on Instagram and Facebook with AI content.
The video generator Odyssey-2 conjures up playable videos from just a few words.
AI video goes cinematic: The announcement of LTX-2 promises 20 seconds of continuous image and sound from a single prompt.
Game developer EA is teaming up with Stability AI to use generative AI to accelerate game development—from 3D to textures.
Adobe starts Firefly Foundry. In partnership with Google Cloud, Gemini, Veo, and Imagen can be used directly in Adobe's creative tools.
Adobe GenStudio automates content creation on a large scale and enables ads to be played on Amazon, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
Adobe Express (beta) designs with the help of AI, while Firefly is expanding with licensed soundtracks, voiceovers, and an Image Model 5.
In the Max Sneaks, Adobe showcased experimental AI superpowers such as "Frame Forward" for video editing and "Light Touch" for modifying light sources.
Developers, Apps & Coding Agents: Powerful tools for everyone
Cursor 2.0 ushers in a new era of programming with Composer and a multi-agent interface and now has its own coding model.
Agent management made easy: GitHub Agent HQ bundles APIs from OpenAI, Google, and others, while Conductor enables parallel execution of multiple Claude code agents locally on your Mac.
The Chinese model MiniMax-M2 has been crowned the new open-source champion for AI agents and competes with GPT-5 and Claude in benchmarks.
Flowith introduces FlowithOS, a native, agentic AI operating system designed to operate self-learning in the browser.
According to TechCrunch, Nvidia is set to invest up to $1 billion in AI coding startup Poolside.
The Microsoft Copilot Fall Release brings numerous new features: Groups, the avatar Mico, long-term memory, "Hey Copilot" for Windows, an AI researcher, and the Outlook inbox becomes Copilot.
Build something: With Meku, you can create full-stack web apps via prompt, and with Agent Mode from Flowith, you can orchestrate various agents.
Substack reveals how its AI-driven feed is optimized for subscriptions rather than scroll time, generating thousands of paying subscribers.
Grammarly has not only acquired the startup Superhuman, but has also renamed itself Superhuman.
Hardware wave: robots, drones, and chip supplies
China ignites the next stage in the robot race: The AI world model WoW is designed to give bots human intuition, while humanoid robots such as Unitree G1 demonstrate their strength by pulling cars (video).
The humanoid home robot NEO can be pre-ordered for US$20,000 and is remotely controlled by humans for complex tasks.
A Carnegie Mellon University project shows how drones can become flying 3D printers and implement construction paths with the help of language models.
IBM introduces the tiny but powerful Granite 4.0 Nano models for use on edge devices.
AWS is opening "Projec t Rainier," a huge data center campus in Indiana that will be used exclusively for Anthropic's AI training.
Flying eVTOLs competed against each other in the world's first Jetson ONE race!
That’s a wrap for now! See you next week,
Fabian & Reto
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