SiliconANGLE's weekly column says it is too early to call an AI bubble, given the money still flowing into AI companies. It notes OpenAI told investors its revenue was $18 billion below the figure previously cited, alongside a busy week of model releases and a Trump crackdown on tech green cards.
Startup Instinct launched its AI agent in August with an invite-only approach and almost no marketing, and it quickly drew praise for its text-message interface. The Verge asks whether it can withstand competition from Muse.
An analysis by The Media Leader of ACPM data shows the websites of 40 French news brands lost 22.9% of their visits in a year. The drop follows the rollout of Google’s AI summaries, although no direct link has been established.
AI labs are hiring people with political experience as frontier technology is increasingly treated as a national security matter. OpenAI and Anthropic have both recruited former Trump administration officials.
AI shopping agents such as Muse create challenges for retailers like Amazon, Costco and TJX. CNBC says they also bring some unexpected advantages.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.