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Artificial Intelligence News 29 September 2025 - 1 October 2025

Smartphone Maker Nothing’s New AI Platform Lets Anyone Build Apps by Chatting – No Coding Needed

Smartphone Maker Nothing’s New AI Platform Lets Anyone Build Apps by Chatting – No Coding Needed

AI apps by prompt: At its core, Essential is a “vibe coding” tool that turns plain-English tasks into functioning applets Techcrunch Business Standard. The user just describes what they need (for example: “show a one-page call brief before my meetings”) and the AI builds a custom workflow in seconds Hindustantimes Androidauthority. Nothing CEO Carl Pei says this approach challenges the “outdated and elitist system” of traditional app development – moving “away from one-size-fits-all applications” towards hyper-personalization Business Standard Phandroid. Indeed, Pei calls Essential the first step toward an operating system “where devices adapt to people, not the other way around.” Playground community: Alongside
1 October 2025
NVIDIA’s $4 Trillion AI Revolution: How the Chipmaker Overtook Apple and Microsoft

AI’s “iPhone Moment” Arrives — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Explains What It Means

What Is the “iPhone Moment” of AI? Huang’s “iPhone moment” analogy captures the idea that generative AI (like ChatGPT) has suddenly become a consumer and enterprise phenomenon. Just as the iPhone in 2007 turned smartphones into a mass-market platform (spurting new apps, services and industries), ChatGPT and related AI tools in 2022-2023 have made AI easy and compelling for ordinary users. “Startups are racing to build disruptive products and business models,” Huang said at Nvidia’s 2023 GTC conference, “and incumbents are looking to respond.” nvidianews.nvidia.com. The implication: we’re entering a phase where AI moves out of niche labs and into
1 October 2025
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Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

$300M Series F Round and $9.3B Valuation In late September 2025 Vercel announced a blockbuster Series F funding round that catapults the startup to a $9.3 billion valuation reuters.com bloomberg.com. The $300 million infusion was oversubscribed and co-led by VC firm Accel and Singapore’s GIC (Global Investment Corporation) reuters.com bloomberg.com. Joining the round were heavyweight asset managers and funds — BlackRock, StepStone, Khosla Ventures, Schroders, Adams Street Partners and General Catalyst — alongside earlier backers (Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, GV, etc.) bloomberg.com gic.com.sg. Vercel also launched a roughly $300 million secondary tender for employees and early investors, which is slated
1 October 2025
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AI Video Showdown: OpenAI’s Sora 2 vs Google’s Veo 3 – 2025’s Next-Gen Video Generators Face Off

AI Video Showdown: OpenAI’s Sora 2 vs Google’s Veo 3 – 2025’s Next-Gen Video Generators Face Off

Introduction: The Dawn of AI-Generated Video (Late 2025) Generative AI has moved beyond text and images – 2025 is the year AI video generation hit the mainstream. OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 stand at the forefront of this revolution. These models can take a written prompt and produce a short video clip complete with moving visuals and matching audio, something unimaginable just a couple of years ago. Both tech giants are hailing their latest creations as breakthrough systems that inch closer to “cinematic” AI content. OpenAI likens Sora 2’s debut to a “GPT-3.5 moment” for video – a
30 September 2025
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

What is Sora 2? Sora 2 is OpenAI’s flagship video-and-audio generation model, building on the original Sora released in late 2024. It accepts text (and optionally images or videos) and outputs short videos with high-fidelity visuals and sound. According to OpenAI, Sora 2 is “more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems,” and it synchronizes dialogue, sound effects, and background audio with generated video Openai. In practical terms, Sora 2 can handle complex scenes that obey real-world physics (gymnastics routines, paddleboard flips with correct buoyancy, realistic ball rebounds, etc.) that earlier models could not consistently simulate Openai Venturebeat. OpenAI
30 September 2025
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Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s move to acquire Rivos comes amid a major push by Big Tech to own the chips that power AI. The Santa Clara–based startup Rivos is a “stealth” AI-chip developer whose founders include former Apple and AMD engineers reuters.com waldencatalyst.com. Rivos’ CEO Puneet Kumar explains the company’s strategy: by targeting smaller installations, Rivos can offer cost-effective AI chips “where Nvidia might seem like an overkill from a cost perspective,” providing a solution “that works well enough and can compete quite well” waldencatalyst.com. In practice, Rivos is designing its chip around software for large-scale AI models. As Kumar told Reuters, “usually
30 September 2025
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China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

DeepSeek’s New V3.2-Exp Model Hangzhou-based DeepSeek burst onto the AI scene earlier in 2025 with its R1 model (a heavily RL-trained chatbot) techcrunch.com. This time, DeepSeek’s announcement focuses on efficiency. On Sept. 29 the company published a post (on Hugging Face) unveiling DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an experimental large language model built on its V3 series techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. According to DeepSeek, V3.2-Exp maintains similar reasoning performance to V3.1 but uses far less compute for long inputs. The key innovation is a “DeepSeek Sparse Attention” (DSA) mechanism: rather than comparing every token to every other in a long document (the dense attention used by
30 September 2025
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Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Salesforce (CRM) Stock News: Shares Slide 3% on Weak Guidance, AI Ambitions Tested

Sources: Stock prices and trading data from Investing.com investing.com; company press releases and financial results salesforce.com salesforce.com; news reports and analysis from Reuters, Salesforce Ben, and MarketBeat reuters.com salesforceben.com marketbeat.com capital.com marketbeat.com. These provide the latest market info, expert quotes, and forecast estimates.
30 September 2025
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CoreWeave’s AI Bonanza: $14.2B Meta Deal & $6.5B OpenAI Pact Propel CRWV Stock Skyward

CoreWeave’s AI Bonanza: $14.2B Meta Deal & $6.5B OpenAI Pact Propel CRWV Stock Skyward

What Is CoreWeave? CoreWeave is a fast-growing cloud services provider specializing in GPU-accelerated computing for AI. Founded in 2017 as a crypto-mining firm, it pivoted to AI infrastructure around 2022. Today it operates hundreds of thousands of high-end NVIDIA GPUs across global data centers, offering “GPU-as-a-service” to tech giants and AI labs. NVIDIA itself is an investor in CoreWeave (and pledged a $250 million order at the IPO) reuters.com. This close Nvidia partnership – including a recent $6.3 billion deal for Nvidia to buy CoreWeave’s idle capacity mlq.ai – underlines how CoreWeave sits at the heart of the AI hardware supply chain.
30 September 2025
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AI Stocks Soar as $100B Nvidia-OpenAI Deal Sparks Frenzy – But Investors Eye Bubble

AI Stocks Soar as $100B Nvidia-OpenAI Deal Sparks Frenzy – But Investors Eye Bubble

Key Facts: Tech Stocks Fuel an AI-Led Rally Wall Street’s late-Sept surge was led by big-tech on AI expectations. The Nasdaq rose ~0.5% on Sept. 29 as investors looked past US fiscal jitters and focused on growth. Nvidia was a standout: after Monday’s $100B OpenAI announcement reuters.com, NVDA shares reached all-time highs. The stock then pulled back slightly (down ~2.8% on Sept. 23) but rebounded +2% on Sept. 29 reuters.com reuters.com. Other “Magnificent Seven” names also rose: Microsoft gained +0.6% and Amazon +1.1% on the day michigansthumb.com reuters.com. (In the prior week all had dipped on Powell’s policy comments reuters.com,
30 September 2025
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Explosive Tech Blitz: AI Bubble Warning, Amazon’s Echo Refresh, Starlink Launch & More (Sept 29–30, 2025)

Explosive Tech Blitz: AI Bubble Warning, Amazon’s Echo Refresh, Starlink Launch & More (Sept 29–30, 2025)

Key Facts Artificial Intelligence AI headlines dominated the late-September news. A Technology Magazine analysis warns that the spectacular rally in AI-related stocks is concentrated in a few giants and “could unravel quickly” if top players falter technologymagazine.com. Carthage Capital’s Stephen Wu urges investors to “take profits, trim risk and avoid leverage” in this high-risk environment technologymagazine.com. At the same time, startups are exploring novel AI uses: ComplexChaos – founded by Tomy Lorsch – is prototyping an AI “consensus builder” to help negotiators find common ground. Lorsch told TechCrunch, “What if we use [AI] as a facilitator to help people understand
30 September 2025
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Anthropic’s New AI Powers Through Code: “World’s Best” Claude Sonnet 4.5 Debuts

Anthropic’s New AI Powers Through Code: “World’s Best” Claude Sonnet 4.5 Debuts

What Is Claude Sonnet 4.5? Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI assistants (named after Claude Shannon). Sonnet 4.5 is the latest “frontier model” optimized for coding and long-horizon tasks. Anthropic calls it a “new generation of coding models” techcrunch.com. Unlike a short-response chatbot, Sonnet 4.5 is built to use tools and software environments autonomously: it can open windows, edit code, run programs, and iterate for hours. According to Anthropic’s engineers, they observed it “maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks” anthropic.com. In effect, Claude Sonnet 4.5 acts less like a fleeting assistant and more like a
29 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

IRS tax refund delays? Watchdog flags staffing crunch as 2026 filing season ramps up

IRS tax refund delays? Watchdog flags staffing crunch as 2026 filing season ramps up

7 February 2026
WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2026, 06:23 (EST) A Treasury watchdog warned the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has entered the 2026 tax filing season short-staffed, raising the risk of delays for some refunds and longer waits for help. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/tax-refund-status-irs-delays-staffing The timing matters because the IRS is now accepting 2025 income-tax returns and expects about 164 million individual filings ahead of the April 15 deadline. Refunds are a big piece of household cash flow for many filers, and the IRS is also pushing taxpayers more firmly toward electronic payments this year. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-opens-2026-filing-season In a memo dated Jan. 26, the Treasury Inspector General for
Plug Power stock jumps 12% after vote setback, with Feb 17 share decision in focus

Plug Power stock jumps 12% after vote setback, with Feb 17 share decision in focus

7 February 2026
Plug Power shares rose 11.6% Friday to $2.08 after a sharp drop the previous day, as attention shifted to a Feb. 17 shareholder vote on expanding authorized shares. The company failed to secure enough votes earlier this week and is urging overseas holders to participate. CEO Andy Marsh cited difficulties for European investors in casting ballots. A reverse stock split remains possible if the proposal fails.
AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

7 February 2026
AT&T shares closed down 0.7% at $27.13 on Friday, underperforming the S&P 500’s 1.97% gain. The company completed a $6.5 billion global notes sale this week, with maturities from 2031 to 2056 and coupons between 4.4% and 6%. Investors await delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data, along with T-Mobile’s upcoming earnings update.
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