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Google Preps “Jules” Coding Agent as OpenAI Battles Legal Storm
PLUS: OpenAI Expands Secondary Share Sale to $10.3B at $500B Valuation, xAI CFO Exits After 3 Months and more.

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Google Preps “Jules” Coding Agent as OpenAI Battles Legal Storm
Apple Plans “World Knowledge Answers” to Power Siri’s Web Search
Mistral Nears $14B Valuation With €2B Funding Round
OpenAI Expands Secondary Share Sale to $10.3B at $500B Valuation
xAI CFO Exits After 3 Months
Google Prepares to Unleash "Jules" an Autonomous Coding Agent, OpenAI Faces "Billionaire Conspiracy"
Google dodged major antitrust penalties, keeping Chrome and its Apple search deal intact, sparking an 8% stock surge. Meanwhile, Google may launch “Jules,” a powerful coding AI agent.
OpenAI acquired Statsig for $1.1B, appointed a new CTO of Applications, and launched “OpenAI for Science” to speed up discovery with GPT-5. Legal tensions rise as OpenAI subpoenas AI governance critics, suspecting billionaire-backed efforts to slow its for-profit shift.
Apple is developing an AI-powered web search tool called World Knowledge Answers, aiming to rival OpenAI and Perplexity. The tool will be deeply integrated into Siri, enhancing its ability to answer user questions directly. Apple may also expand it to Safari and Spotlight. This marks a major shift in Apple’s AI strategy, focusing on delivering smarter, on-device search experiences to challenge existing AI leaders in the space.
Why this matters
Apple enters AI search race: A serious new competitor to OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity changes market dynamics.
Siri’s evolution: Revamping Siri into a true AI assistant could redefine user expectations for voice AI.
Privacy-centric AI: Apple’s approach may prioritize on-device processing, challenging cloud-reliant models with privacy-first alternatives.
French AI startup Mistral is raising €2 billion in funding, boosting its valuation to €12 billion ($14 billion). Founded in 2023 by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers, Mistral focuses on open-source language models and a European-centric chatbot called Le Chat. This funding milestone cements Mistral’s rise as a major European AI contender, positioning it as a serious rival to OpenAI in the global race for next-generation AI leadership.
Why this matters
Strengthens Europe’s AI ecosystem, offering an alternative to US and Chinese dominance.
Pushes open-source innovation forward, challenging proprietary models like GPT and Claude.
Signals investor confidence in regional, privacy-focused, and decentralized AI approaches.
OpenAI has expanded its secondary share sale to $10.3 billion, giving current and former employees the chance to cash out at a $500 billion valuation. Initially planned at $6 billion, the deal includes backing from major investors like SoftBank and T. Rowe Price. This move follows similar equity-liquidation strategies from SpaceX and Stripe, allowing employees to secure returns without forcing an IPO, while signaling strong investor confidence in OpenAI’s long-term value.
Why this matters
Confirms OpenAI’s $500B valuation, reinforcing its dominance in the AI space.
Highlights growing investor appetite for private AI equity amid IPO delays.
Sets precedent for AI talent retention, offering liquidity without going public.
🧠RESEARCH
Large language models struggle with hands-on tasks. The Think in Games (TiG) framework trains them through game play, letting them “learn by doing.” TiG uses feedback from the environment to refine their reasoning, while keeping explanations clear. It works well, needs less data, and makes AI decisions easier to understand.
A.S.E is a new benchmark that tests how secure AI-generated code is using real software projects with known vulnerabilities. It checks full repositories, not just snippets, and uses expert rules for evaluation. Surprisingly, open-source models rival proprietary ones, and faster, simpler strategies often outperform more complex reasoning in fixing security flaws.
This survey maps the fast-growing field of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL), which turns large language models into autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and adapt over time. It introduces a new framework, reviews over 500 papers, and outlines the tools, benchmarks, and challenges driving progress toward general-purpose AI agents.
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🗞️MORE NEWS
xAI’s CFO Mike Liberatore has left after just three months, joining a string of recent high-profile departures. He helped raise $10 billion and expand data centers. Leadership instability continues to shake Elon Musk’s AI firm.
Scale AI accuses ex-employee Eugene Ling of stealing over 100 confidential files to benefit rival Mercor. The lawsuit claims Ling downloaded key customer strategy documents, recruited staff, and tried to poach clients just after meeting Mercor’s CEO, intensifying a season of turmoil in the AI industry.
China is accelerating military AI development by partnering with private companies and top universities. A Shanghai university’s AI research on automated naval “kill webs” quickly turned into a military contract, highlighting Beijing’s strategy of fusing civilian innovation with defense modernization.
CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe to boost AI agent training with reinforcement learning. The deal strengthens CoreWeave’s position in custom AI systems by adding OpenPipe’s open-source agent toolkit and expertise. OpenPipe’s team and clients will now integrate into CoreWeave’s high-performance AI cloud ecosystem.
DeepL launches its own AI agent to automate office tasks, entering competition with OpenAI and Microsoft. The new “DeepL Agent” helps businesses handle repetitive work like research or data entry. It uses both DeepL’s language models and third-party AI, expanding the startup’s focus beyond translation into enterprise automation.
HappyRobot raises $44M to grow its AI agents for freight logistics automation. The startup builds AI assistants for tasks like scheduling and rate negotiation, helping clients like DHL and Flexport. Its tailored approach and rapid revenue growth position it as a standout in enterprise AI.
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