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Microsoft officially added Anthropic’s Claude into 365 Copilot, marking the company’s first expansion outside of OpenAI for model choice.

Elon Musk took a shot at Anthropic on X, saying “winning was never in the set of possible outcomes” for the Claude-maker.

SAP and OpenAI unveiled plans for "OpenAI for Germany," a sovereign AI platform that will bring AI capabilities to German public sector workers, launching in 2026.

Cohere announced $100M funding that brings its valuation to nearly $7B, fueled by enterprise demand for its security-first AI platform, North, and Command A models.

Cloudflare open-sourced VibeSDK, enabling anyone to deploy their own AI-powered "vibe coding" platform with one click.

The U.K. government revealed that its new AI-powered Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator helped recover a record £480M in fraudulent claims over the past year.

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

🎬 Kling 2.5 Turbo - New high-quality video generation model

🍌 Mixboard - Google’s experimental canvas for visualizing ideas

👁️ Qwen3-VL - Alibaba’s new SOTA vision-language model

BREAKING 🚨: ChatGPT Pulse is rolling out to Pro users on mobile to deliver personalised reports which can be tailored to the user’s needs every day.

Pro testing time 👀

Google released upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite with better quality and improved efficiency.

Now available on Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and APIs.

1. Nvidia’s $100B bet on OpenAI

Nvidia will invest up to $100B into OpenAI to deploy 10 GW of GPU datacenters, representing millions of GPUs for next-gen AI infrastructure.

2. ChatGPT launches “Pulse”
OpenAI introduced Pulse,

a feature that researches overnight and delivers daily personalized updates based on chat history, feedback, and connected apps like Gmail or Calendar. Now in preview for Pro mobile users.

3. Google: 90% of devs use AI tools

Google Cloud’s DORA report shows adoption has surged, but trust in AI outputs remains low, a gap between usage and confidence.

4. Microsoft adds Anthropic to Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot now integrates Anthropic’s Claude models alongside OpenAI’s, letting users toggle between them for research, reasoning, and custom AI tools.

5. AI passes toughest finance exam

Frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic can now pass all 3 levels of the CFA exam in minutes, a process that takes humans years.

6.Spotify removes 75M “spammy” tracks

In its biggest AI-music crackdown yet, Spotify banned mass duplicates, fraudulent uploads, and AI voice impersonations, tightening rules to protect real artists.

7. Meta launches “Vibes”

Meta’s new TikTok-style feed for AI-generated videos features remix tools and Midjourney-powered aesthetics across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

8. China leads in industrial robots

China installed nearly 300,000 industrial robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, bringing its total to over 2 million.

🍏 Apple tests “Veritas” chatbot for Siri fix

Bloomberg: Apple using internal bot to stress-test new AI after big delays.

Details:
• Veritas experiments with personal search + photo editing via voice
• Runs on “Linwood” system → mix of Apple + third-party models
• Siri’s AI revamp delayed to March 2026 → caused exec shakeups + talent loss
• Veritas won’t launch standalone → features go straight into Siri

Why it matters: Apple isn’t chasing chatbots, just trying to save Siri. But with talent leaving + rivals racing ahead, March deadline looks risky.

🗑️ Stanford study: AI “workslop” wasting time

41% of workers hit with hollow AI outputs last month → costly + annoying.

Details:
• Avg 116 mins wasted fixing each piece
• 15.4% of content = workslop → $186/mo lost per worker
• Worst in tech + professional services
• Colleagues who send workslop seen as less trusted + creative

Meta poached another major AI researcher from OpenAI, with Yang Song leaving to be the new research principal at MSL under Shengjia Zhao (also formerly at OpenAI).

Tencent open-sourced HunyuanImage 3.0, a new text-to-image model that the company says compares to the industry’s top closed options.

Google released new updates to its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite models, with upgrades including agentic tool performance, efficiency, and instruction following.

Exa released exa-code, a tool that helps AI coding assistants find hyper-relevant web context to significantly reduce LLM hallucinations.

OpenAI’s new Applications CEO, Fidji Simo, is reportedly recruiting a new executive to lead monetization and advertising efforts for ChatGPT.

AI image startup Black Forest Labs is reportedly set to raise as much as $300M in a new round that would push the German company’s valuation to $4B