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šŸ“¢ AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • šŸ“± Jony Ive details OpenAI’s hardware vision

  • 🧠 Samsung researcher’s tiny model out-reasons giants

  • šŸ”„Google Wants Right to Bundle Gemini AI App With Maps, YouTube

  • 🚪 AI researcher leaves Anthropic over anti-China stance

  • šŸ’” AI Tutorial:Create AI Videos for Free with Grok Imagine

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

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Ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive provided a broader glimpse into his hardware partnership with OpenAI during an exclusive session with Sam Altman at Dev Day, outlining plans for AI devices that heal humans’ fractured relationship with tech. Ive noted a current ā€œuncomfortable relationshipā€ with tech, hoping AI devices can make us ā€œhappy, fulfilled, peaceful, less anxious, and less disconnected.ā€

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Samsung’s Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau introduced the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M parameter AI that beats DeepSeek R1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on complex reasoning using a self-improvement loop of drafting, rethinking, and refining solutions. TRM scored 45% on the notoriously difficult ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, surpassing models thousands of times larger.

Google wants to retain the right to bundle Maps and YouTube with its Gemini AI service. It claims that there is no evidence that it has gained a monopoly or market power in the AI market. Maps and YouTube have not been found to be monopoly products. Google says its bundle of Gemini with YouTube and Maps is similar to Microsoft's inclusion of its Copilot AI within its Office productivity software.

SoftBank has invested $5.4B to acquire ABB’s robotics division, deepening its commitment to advanced robotics and expanding its portfolio beyond previous ventures like Pepper. Founder Masayoshi Son has called robotics ā€œSoftBank’s next frontier in Physical AI,ā€ aiming to drive a ā€œground-breaking evolution that will propel humanity forward.ā€

Prominent physicist-turned-AI researcher Yao Shunyu departed Anthropic for Google after less than a year, publishing a blog that cites the startup's characterization of China as an "adversarial nation" among his reasons for leaving. Yao contributed to Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 4 during his year at Anthropic before resigning in mid-September.

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