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Artificial Intelligence 28 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 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 Nothing CEO Carl Pei says this approach challenges the “outdated and elitist system” of traditional app development – moving “away from one-size-fits-all applications” towards hyper-personalization Business Standard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.”
1 October 2025
AI’s “iPhone Moment” Arrives — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Explains What It Means

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

Huang’s “iPhone moment” analogy captures the idea that generative AI has suddenly become a consumer and enterprise phenomenon. Just as the iPhone in 2007 turned smartphones into a mass-market platform, 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 everyday applications, triggering a rapid wave of innovation.
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

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 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 bloomberg.com gic.com.sg. Vercel also launched a roughly $300 million secondary tender for employees and early investors, which is slated to close in November reuters.com gic.com.sg.
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

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 leap in capability akin to the jump in NLP quality seen with GPT-3 Venturebeat. Google’s Veo 3 similarly bills itself as “state-of-the-art”, designed to empower storytellers with unprecedented fidelity in AI-generated footage Deepmind Deepmind.
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

Sora 2 is OpenAI’s flagship video-and-audio generation model, building on the original Sora released in late 2024. It accepts text 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 that earlier models could not consistently simulate Openai Venturebeat.
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 chip companies do it the other way: build the silicon, and then build the software on top... We decided… that we should first look at software” reuters.com.
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

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek burst onto the AI scene earlier in 2025 with its R1 model techcrunch.com. This time, DeepSeek’s announcement focuses on efficiency. On Sept. 29 the company published a post 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” mechanism: rather than comparing every token to every other in a long document, DSA first uses a “lightning indexer” to pick out important excerpts, then a fine-grained selector to zoom in on the most salient words inside them techcrunch.com hindustantimes.com. This two-stage pruning means the model can “handle a large amount of data” more cheaply, processing tens of thousands of tokens without exploding costs techcrunch.com venturebeat.com.
30 September 2025
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Salesforce (CRM) Stock News: Shares Slide 3% on Weak Guidance, AI Ambitions Tested

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

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 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. CoreWeave calls itself the “AI Hyperscaler,” and its technologies power training and inference for advanced AI models.
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

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 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. Even smaller AI plays like AppLovin and Lam Research climbed on investor enthusiasm reuters.com. In sum, strategists observed that “technology provided the biggest boost as investors bet on growth from AI” 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)

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 each other and find common ground?” techcrunch.com. Their team has already tested an LLM in UN climate drill talks, to speed up agreement.
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

Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI assistants. 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 persistent co-programmer: as one Anthropic product lead put it, “This is a continued evolution on Claude, going from an assistant to more of a collaborator to a full, autonomous agent… capable of working for extended time horizons” axios.com.
29 September 2025
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Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft bills this era of AI-assisted work as “vibe working” – akin to its earlier “vibe coding” for apps. As Corporate VP Sumit Chauhan explains, “in the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts” theverge.com. In practice, that means you start with a simple prompt and the AI agent orchestrates the multi-step process. The Microsoft blog calls it “the new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration” microsoft.com theverge.com.
29 September 2025
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2025: Gen Z (ages 18–26) Job Alert – AI Could Eliminate Up to 50% of Entry-Level Roles, Experts Warn

2025: Gen Z (ages 18–26) Job Alert – AI Could Eliminate Up to 50% of Entry-Level Roles, Experts Warn

Generation Z is now entering the workforce amid unprecedented change. After a global pandemic and economic swings, Gen Zers face fewer entry-level openings than previous cohorts. Research by Randstad shows “global entry-level job postings have fallen by 29 percentage points since January 2024” weforum.org. In practical terms, companies are hiring far fewer fresh graduates. A report by VC firm SignalFire found leading tech companies cut their hiring of recent grads by roughly 25% in 2024 techcrunch.com. Similarly, StackOverflow’s 2025 developer survey notes that “entry-level tech hiring decreased 25% year-over-year in 2024” stackoverflow.blog. Even in skilled fields like software development, one Stanford study cited in that survey found employment for 22–25-year-old developers has plunged ~20% since late 2022 stackoverflow.blog.
29 September 2025
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DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) Stock Set to Surge? Analysts Highlight Smart-Grid Wins and AI-Driven Demand

DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) Stock Set to Surge? Analysts Highlight Smart-Grid Wins and AI-Driven Demand

DTE Energy’s stock has been relatively stable and is trading near its annual highs. On Sept. 26, 2025 the stock closed around $139.36 marketbeat.com. According to MarketBeat, that day’s close was up +1.23%. The shares have a 52-week trading range of roughly $115.59 to $142.05 stockanalysis.com, so current prices are only a few dollars below the peak. Year-to-date, DTE has outperformed the broad market modestly, supported by steady utility demand and anticipation of growth projects.
29 September 2025
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SoundHound AI (SOUN) Stock Soars on 217% Growth and Big AI Deals – Insider Sell-Off Stirs Caution

SoundHound AI (SOUN) Stock Soars on 217% Growth and Big AI Deals – Insider Sell-Off Stirs Caution

SoundHound’s stock has seen wild swings this month. After hitting ~$17–18 in mid-September, SOUN slipped ~13% in two days following filings showing insiders sold over $8M of stock insidermonkey.com tipranks.com. Shares declined on Sept 25 and again on Sept 26 insidermonkey.com stockanalysis.com. TradingVolume surged as executives sold and market sentiment turned cautious.
29 September 2025
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Tech Headlines Shakeup: AI Booms, Space Rockets & Green Power (Sept 28–29, 2025)

Tech Headlines Shakeup: AI Booms, Space Rockets & Green Power (Sept 28–29, 2025)

Each of these stories reflects how fast-moving the tech world remains. We’ve linked to reporters’ accounts and company releases for all items above openai.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com abcnews.go.com theguardian.com, with quotes from experts illustrating the stakes. Industry analysts predict that AI integration, continued space innovation, and green energy solutions will accelerate next year, so stay tuned as these trends evolve.
29 September 2025
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Apple’s Siri Gets ChatGPT-Like Brain – But You Won’t Get to Use It

Apple’s Siri Gets ChatGPT-Like Brain – But You Won’t Get to Use It

Apple’s new testing app Veritas represents a big step in Apple’s AI push macrumors.com appleinsider.com. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the app “essentially takes the still-in-progress technology from the new Siri and puts it in a form employees can test out more efficiently” au.investing.com appleinsider.com. Internally, Veritas is run on engineers’ iPhones to try features that Siri will eventually have. In practice it “behaves more like a chatbot,” says AppleInsider, referencing past chats and enabling longer back-and-forth conversations appleinsider.com. This lets Apple’s AI team rapidly prototype capabilities without constantly reworking Siri’s voice interface.
28 September 2025
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Wall Street’s AI Frenzy: Nvidia Skyrockets, Oracle Tanking – Top Analyst Moves Explained

Wall Street’s AI Frenzy: Nvidia Skyrockets, Oracle Tanking – Top Analyst Moves Explained

In the past week analysts have swung between bullish upgrades and bearish downgrades in tech, all tied to the generative AI boom. Barclays boosted Nvidia on the view that AI datacenter demand will create a “very large TAM” – O’Malley estimates $2 trillion of planned AI spending on ~40GW of power in the pipeline investing.com – while Morgan Stanley sees Microsoft’s Azure+AI momentum powering sustained growth investing.com reuters.com. Databricks, for example, just teamed up with OpenAI to embed GPT‑5 into its enterprise data platform, a deal expected to generate $100 million in revenue reuters.com reuters.com. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi notes there is “overwhelming demand” from businesses for bespoke AI agents on their data reuters.com, reflecting the same trend.
28 September 2025
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