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Today:

• $34.5B Bid: Perplexity Aims to Snatch Chrome from Google

• Anthropic Fires Back at OpenAI with Massive Claude Memory Boost

• Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Grok App Ranking

• Anthropic Matches OpenAI with $1 Claude AI Plan for Government

• OpenAI’s AI Places 6th at IOI, Beats 98% of Human Coders

$34.5B Bid: Perplexity Aims to Snatch Chrome from Google

AI startup Perplexity has made a surprise $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser. The offer, which exceeds Perplexity’s own $18 billion valuation, aims to capitalize on a possible court-ordered breakup of Google’s search monopoly. With backing from major investors, Perplexity positions itself as a potential new owner of Chrome if a judge mandates its sale, presenting the move as a public interest solution to restore fair competition.

Why It Matters

1. Search Disruption: If Perplexity acquires Chrome, it could reshape how people search the web—favoring AI-driven results over traditional search engines.
   

2. AI as Industry Challenger: A young AI company challenging Google signals a power shift in tech, where AI startups are no longer just tools—they’re contenders for platform control.
   

3. Antitrust Implications: This case could set a precedent for breaking up tech giants, potentially creating new openings for AI-native services to replace legacy web infrastructure.

Anthropic Fires Back at OpenAI with Massive Claude Memory Boost

Anthropic has expanded the memory of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to handle 1 million tokens, enabling it to analyze entire codebases and massive text inputs like 2,500 pages at once. This move intensifies its competition with OpenAI, which offered similar capabilities months earlier. The upgrade targets enterprise clients, who need broader context for tasks like software development, legal analysis, and research, and reflects Anthropic’s push to lead the AI coding market.

Why It Matters

1. Larger Context = Smarter AI
   A million-token window lets models understand much larger projects in full — from entire apps to legal contracts — boosting AI's usefulness in real-world coding and enterprise tasks.
   

2. Enterprise Race Intensifies
   Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to dominate the lucrative market of AI coding assistants, where clients are willing to pay premium prices for productivity tools.
   

3. AI Scaling Progress
   This upgrade shows how quickly AI models are evolving, not just in intelligence but in their ability to handle complex, large-scale work — a key milestone on the road to more advanced systems.

Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Grok App Ranking

Elon Musk says his AI company, xAI, will sue Apple for allegedly favoring ChatGPT in the App Store rankings, blocking fair visibility for xAI's Grok app. He accuses Apple of antitrust violations and political bias, but offers no proof. Apple previously partnered with OpenAI, which may explain the rankings. Musk’s threat adds to ongoing legal scrutiny Apple faces over its App Store practices in both U.S. and Europe.

Why It Matters

1. Platform Power in AI Discovery
   App Store ranking disputes highlight how dominant platforms like Apple can control which AI tools reach users — a major concern for competition.
   

2. Musk vs. OpenAI Rivalry
   Musk’s legal threat escalates tensions with OpenAI, reinforcing the growing battle between leading AI developers not just on performance, but access.
   

3. Regulatory Ripple Effects
   The case could attract more antitrust scrutiny toward Apple and influence how future AI apps are treated by platform gatekeepers.

🧠RESEARCH

ReasonRank: Empowering Passage Ranking with Strong Reasoning Ability

ReasonRank is a new AI system that ranks search results using deep reasoning. It creates its own training data and learns in two steps: first by studying examples, then by improving through trial and error. It beats previous models in both accuracy and speed, setting a new performance record.

WideSearch: Benchmarking Agentic Broad Info-Seeking

WideSearch tests how well AI agents gather large amounts of information. It uses 200 real-world tasks across many topics. Current AI systems mostly fail, scoring close to 0%. Even top models only reach 5% success. This shows today’s search agents are unreliable for broad info-gathering, needing major improvement.

Omni-Effects: Unified and Spatially-Controllable Visual Effects Generation

Omni-Effects is a new AI system that creates multiple, customizable visual effects in one image or video. Unlike older tools that handle only one effect at a time, it allows users to control where and what effects appear. The system is accurate, flexible, and useful for advanced video editing.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

MathGPT - AI math solver and calculator that provides instant solutions and step-by-step explanations for a wide range of mathematical problems

Imagica - No-code AI development platform that empowers users to create AI applications quickly and easily

Photosonic - AI-powered art generator developed by Writesonic that transforms text descriptions into unique digital images.

HitPaw Watermark Remover - AI-powered tool designed to efficiently remove watermarks, logos, text, and other unwanted elements from both images and videos.

v0 dev - Generative user interface system developed by Vercel Labs that leverages AI to create React code compatible with Shadcn UI and Tailwind CSS. 

📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

• Anthropic will give its Claude AI tools to all U.S. government branches for $1 per agency for a year, matching OpenAI’s offer. AI firms are racing to build strong ties with federal agencies.

• OpenAI’s AI system placed 6th at the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics, beating most of the 330 human contestants. Using general-purpose models and a simple setup, it jumped from 49th to 98th percentile in one year.

• Microsoft is targeting Meta’s top AI engineers with multimillion-dollar offers, aiming to match Meta’s huge pay packages. Internal documents reveal special hiring teams, fast-track approvals, and a list of high-priority Meta employees.

• After GPT-5's rocky launch, OpenAI is tightening usage limits, prioritizing paid users and existing API customers, and doubling its compute capacity. It also added new ChatGPT integrations with Dropbox, Teams, Gmail, and other tools.

• Google added a “critic” feature to its Jules coding AI that reviews and flags code issues before you see them. It helps catch bugs, logic flaws, and inefficiencies early—like a built-in peer reviewer.

• Character.AI has shifted from aiming for superintelligent AI to becoming an entertainment platform. With 20 million users, it now focuses on storytelling and chatbots, including kid-friendly voice characters like Sherlock Holmes.

• At 23, ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner raised $1.5B for his hedge fund, Situational Awareness, which bets on AI-driven stocks and startups. His fund gained 47% in six months, far outperforming the broader market.