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

BREAKING 🚨: Anthropic released "Imagine with Claude", where Claude can generate software on the fly!

This is the future of the internet 👀

Sadly, "Available to Max users for 5 days"

BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI released native checkout on ChatGPT for Shopify and Etsy merchants in the US.

Copilot will get it soon as well and they likely will be powered by the same merchant network.

This is big for e-commerce 👀

BREAKING 🚨: Perplexity is rolling out Background Agents for Perplexity Max subscribers!

Background agents will be able to execute complex long long-running tasks while you are busy with something else.

What should I try? 👀

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking are now available on Perplexity.

BREAKING: ⚡️ OpenAI says it is planning a social-app for AI generated videos.

@CoreAti

OpenAI is building a TikTok-style social app powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model all AI-generated clips, no user uploads.

• 10s video cap, identity verification for likeness use
• Copyrighted material allowed unless rights holders opt out
• Public figures require consent for likeness
• Remix + algorithmic feed + likeness-use notifications
• Launch follows Meta’s “Vibes” AI video feed

Everything else in AI today

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 53 legislation, requiring transparency from AI giants with a computing cluster consortium and whistleblower protections.

Quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson published a new paper that he revealed had a key technical step come from GPT-5-Thinking.

Lovable launched Lovable Cloud and AI, enabling users to build full-stack apps through prompts with integrated backend services and Gemini-powered AI features.

Wait.

Sora 2 is here

TODAY WE LAUNCH SORA 2, THE WORLDS BEST VIDEO GENERATION MODEL