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Microsoft Drops First Homegrown AI Image Maker

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-1, their very first text-to-image AI built entirely in-house. It cranks out super realistic pics, shining on tricky bits like bounce lighting, reflections, and sweeping...

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Meta Poaches Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Andrew Tulloch

Meta scored a big win in the AI talent wars by hiring Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab. The Australian AI expert, who helped build PyTorch at Meta from 2012 to 2023 and worked on...

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Apple Nears Deal for Prompt AI Talent to Boost Smart Home Tech

Apple is in late-stage talks to snag talent and tech from Prompt AI, a 2023-founded startup specializing in computer vision. The 11-person team’s Seemour app linked to home cameras for smart...

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Sora Hits 1M Downloads Faster Than ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Sora app launched and zipped to 1 million downloads in under five days – quicker than ChatGPT did back in 2023. This iOS-only video generator, available just in the US and Canada...

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Figma Teams Up with Google to Bring Gemini AI to Design Tools

Figma announced a partnership with Google, to weave Gemini AI into its design platform, making things like image creation and editing quicker and smarter. This adds Gemini 2.5 Flash for fast image...

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Reflection AI Grabs $2B to Build America’s Open AI Lab, Taking on DeepSeek

Reflection AI, started by ex-DeepMind folks, just pulled in $2 billion, bumping its value to $8 billion. That’s a big jump from its $545 million tag seven months back. The cash comes from big...

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Zendesk’s New AI Agent Handles 80% of Support Issues

Zendesk rolled out a new autonomous AI agent on October 8, 2025, that can fix up to 80% of customer problems without any human help. It’s part of their Resolution Platform, and it uses smart...

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Samsung’s Tiny AI Model Beats Big Reasoning Giants

Samsung’s AI lab in Montreal dropped a game-changer – the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM), a super small AI with just 7 million parameters that outsmarts huge models on tough reasoning tests. It...

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Google Expands AI Mode to More Languages and Places

Google shared, that it’s rolling out AI Mode to over 35 new languages and more than 40 new countries and territories, making it available in over 200 spots worldwide. This lets more folks ask...

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Rahul Patil Joins Anthropic as New CTO

Anthropic announced on October 8, 2025, that Rahul Patil is stepping in as their Chief Technology Officer. With over 20 years under his belt, Patil comes from being CTO at Stripe, where he led tech...

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