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Google AI Mode May Finally Be Killing the Blue Links Google is fundamentally transforming its search experience, with product lead Logan Kilpatrick signaling that google.com's classic search page will be replaced by AI Mode. The AI-first experience is live in 180+ countries with 100M monthly users and

OpenAI New Jobs Platform and Certification Program OpenAI is making a significant move into the professional development and recruitment space, directly challenging Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. The company announced a dual-pronged strategy: * a new Jobs Platform to connect businesses with AI-skilled workers and * a Certification Program aiming to credential 10 million Americans

⚖ Google Avoids 'Breakup' but Faces New Restrictions A federal judge ruled a big one - that Google will not be forced to spin off Chrome or Android in the search antitrust case, despite earlier speculation that competitors like OpenAI or Perplexity might swoop in if Chrome were cut

The Skim * Anthropic closes a “historic” $13B round to scale Claude, code, and enterprise go-to-market. * OpenAI is acquiring Statsig; its founder Vijaye Raji becomes CTO of Applications. (Terms undisclosed; Rundown pegs it around $1.1B.) * World models jump to interactive: Tencent’s HunyuanWorld-Voyager releases code/weights; DeepMind details Genie 3.

🧠 Mind over metal: non-invasive BCI lets paralyzed users control robots The story: UCLA engineers paired an EEG cap with an AI decoder and vision system to interpret intent in real time, enabling paralyzed users to control robotic arms and cursors without surgery. Early testing showed big speed gains vs. baseline

🔥 OpenAI: Now Hear This The Big News: OpenAI just unleashed its GPT Real-time API, and it appears to be phenomenal. Forget about those robot-y assistants or call centers that sound like they're reading a script. This new model can laugh, sigh and even switch languages mid-sentence without appearing

📊 A16z Consumer AI App Rankings Reveal Dramatic Market Shifts The Landscape: Andreessen Horowitz's fifth edition of their comprehensive GenAI consumer app rankings provides interesting insights into which AI applications are actually gaining traction with users, revealing surprising trends that challenge conventional wisdom about the AI market. Top-Line Results:

🍌 Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Bananas! This week, the AI world went absolutely bananas for... well, nano-banana! This model, which has been dominating the image editing leaderboards in secret, was finally unveiled as Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. And ya, you can believe

🍌 Nano-Banana and the Future of Image Generation A curious new image-gen model, dubbed "Nano-Banana," has emerged, demonstrating capabilities that significantly surpass existing models like Stable Diffusion and Flux. Evidence suggests this is a stealth release from Google, likely part of its Gemini ecosystem. The model excels at identity

💸 AI in Finance: The Bank Just Got Deleted The Scoop: Malaysia is now home to the world's first fully AI-powered bank, Ryt Bank, a joint venture between YTL Group and Sea Limited. Rather than another hyped up banking app, it's a ground-up reinvention of financial services