🗞️ THE WEEKEND RECAP

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🍏 Apple Explores Google Gemini for Siri Revamp: Apple is in talks with Google to power a smarter Siri using Gemini AI, after delays with its own models. The move could mark a major shift in Apple’s generative AI strategy, as it also weighs deals with OpenAI and Anthropic.

🚫 NVIDIA Halts H20 AI Chip Production in China: NVIDIA has stopped making its H20 chip after Beijing warned firms of security risks and urged use of domestic alternatives, jeopardizing NVIDIA’s plans to regain ground in the Chinese AI market.

🤝 Meta Teams With Midjourney: Meta is partnering with Midjourney to build advanced AI image and video models, blending social scale with creative tools to challenge OpenAI’s dominance.

🧐 Musk Sought Zuckerberg’s Help to Seize OpenAI: Court filings reveal Elon Musk tried recruiting Mark Zuckerberg in a $97.4B takeover bid to redirect OpenAI toward open-source AI. Zuck declined.

💼 Cisco Axes 221 Jobs Amid Revenue Boom: Despite $56.7B in FY25 revenue, Cisco is cutting staff—mostly engineers—weeks after CEO Chuck Robbins said AI wouldn’t cost jobs. The layoffs echo tech’s trend of profits rising while workers lose out.

🎬 Google Adds Vids Shortcut to Drive: Workspace users can now open videos directly in Google’s AI-powered Vids tool for quick edits—like trimming, adding music, or text—streamlining production and deepening Vids’ integration with Drive.

🏢 OpenAI Opens First India Office in New Delhi: Following its ₹399 ChatGPT Go plan, OpenAI is building a local team to deepen ties with India’s tech ecosystem, businesses, and government as it pushes to make AI more accessible in the world’s second-largest internet market.

📖 Musk Open-Sources Grok 2.5: Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has released its Grok 2.5 chatbot model as open source, aiming to rival Meta’s LLaMA and boost developer adoption

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🎨 ART

MIT Researcher’s AI Masks Offer a New Path in Art Restoration

After a 2016 earthquake destroyed much of Italy’s Church of San Salvatore, conservators faced the impossible task of piecing together its shattered 15th-century frescoes. Alex Kachkine, a 25-year-old MIT engineer and hobbyist restorer, proposed a novel solution: AI-generated, ultra-thin printed “masks” that overlay missing sections without permanently altering the original. The masks are reversible, giving viewers the sense of wholeness while preserving authenticity.

Published in Nature, his method works 65 times faster than traditional techniques and has caught global attention. By offering a removable middle ground between preservation and restoration, it could transform how cultural heritage is saved. → Read the full article here.

👾 FORWARD FUTURE ORIGINAL

6 GPT-5 Use Cases + 4 Expert-Level Prompts

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is the long-awaited upgrade to what many would call the most popular and ubiquitous AI model currently available to the general public.

Ever since the release of GPT-3.5, or ChatGPT, in 2022, AI has caused a total paradigm shift in how millions of people write, code, research, and create. Since then, OpenAI has worked tirelessly to stay ahead of the increasingly impressive competition— both locally from Google and Anthropic and internationally with Deepseek.

But what’s so impressive about GPT-5 and why should you switch over from older models? Well, here are some of the coolest new features this model provides— and six things you can do with them. → Read the full article here.

🤖 BOTS

The Internet’s Future Looks Like Bots Battling Bots

The web that once connected people is quickly turning into a machines-first ecosystem, where bots negotiate prices, optimize content, and even handle ransomware standoffs. As AI agents multiply, human activity is pushed to the margins, replaced by “my bot talks to your bot” exchanges. Already, bots make up half of website traffic, and companies are building separate sites for humans and machines.

This shift promises efficiency but risks spiraling into wasteful digital arms races, with bots endlessly outmaneuvering one another. The challenge ahead: keeping humans in control of an internet increasingly run, and contested, by automated agents. → Read the full article here.

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