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AI news brief: Former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil has joined the board of Seattle-based rocket startup Stoke Space as a formal director, following his earlier role as an angel investor. Weil previously held senior roles at Twitter, Meta, and Planet Labs, and most recently led OpenAI’s accelerated science research program before stepping down in October 2025. Stoke has raised 1.34 billion dollars to date and is targeting first flight this year with its fully reusable Nova rocket.

AI News Brief: Microsoft has begun replacing some third-party models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its in-house MAI models in core Office software like Excel and Word to handle a portion of user prompts. This strategic shift, reported by Bloomberg, signals Microsoft is actively reducing its reliance on external AI vendors and the associated licensing costs. In fact, Microsoft had previously…

AI News Brief: Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang recently posted a counterintuitive take — the more mature enterprise AI deployments become, the more they tend to switch to lightweight open-source models, yet overall spending on frontier models has barely dropped. He argues frontier and open-source models aren’t competitors but two stages of the same lifecycle — expensive frontier models validate new use cases, and once a scenario matures it’s handed off to cheaper open-source alternatives…

AI News Flash: Meta officially launched Muse Image on Tuesday, a brand-new AI image generator developed by its Meta Superintelligence Labs, internally codenamed ‘Mango’. It’s now available for free through the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. Muse …

AI News Brief: Anthropic’s general-purpose knowledge work AI agent tool, Claude Cowork, has officially expanded to web and mobile platforms, now available to Max subscribers. Launched in January this year as a desktop application, this update allows users to initiate tasks on their computer and track progress on their phone. Even when the laptop is closed, the agent continues running in the background and delivers results upon completion. …

AI News Brief: Google recently and quietly updated its privacy settings to allow the company to store more types of user data for improving the training quality of its AI models, without proactively notifying users. Under the updated terms, the scope of data Google can collect has expanded from general usage behavior to media files, specifically covering images, various documents, and audio and video recordings — a clearly broader collection scope than before. This change is opt-out by default, so if users don’t actively enter the settings page to disable it, their personal media data will automatically be funneled into the AI training dataset.

AI News Flash: Apple has officially opened the previously marked ‘coming soon’ Siri voice adjustment features — ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ — in the newly released iOS 27 developer beta 3. These two features first debuted at this year’s WWDC 26 in June, letting users go beyond simply choosing a male or female voice: with sliders, they can now…

AI News Brief: South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix has announced plans for a US IPO, offering roughly 17.8 million shares. Based on Seoul’s closing price last Friday, the offering could raise up to approximately $28 billion. The company will use American Depositary Receipts (ADR), with each ADR representing one-tenth of an ordinary share. Pricing is expected this Thursday, with trading to begin Friday. SK Hynix’s listing comes amid a memory supercycle driven by explosive AI demand. The company’s Q1 revenue grew nearly 200% year-over-year, and its stock has surged roughly 260% year-to-date. The underlying driver is AI systems’ heavy reliance on memory — including HBM, DRAM, and NAND — as hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle race to build out AI factories at scale. Supply simply can’t keep up with demand, a phenomenon the industry calls ‘RAMageddon’. Even Apple has said chip shortages forced it to raise prices on Macs and iPads.

AI News Brief: Recent reports claimed that for the first time in history, an AI agent had carried out a real-world ransomware attack, briefly raising alarms about the arrival of an era of fully automated AI cybercrime. However, as more details emerged, the full picture diverged significantly from the sensational headlines. According to subsequent disclosures, the AI agent in this incident was indeed responsible for the technical execution of the attack, but the critical decision-making aspects of the operation still relied heavily on human involvement…

AI news brief: French AI company Mistral AI has recently drawn wide attention amid Trump pressuring Anthropic to remove its models and rising calls for European tech sovereignty, but its positioning is widely misunderstood. Mistral isn’t aspiring to be the ‘European OpenAI,’ and its chat and Agent product Vibe (formerly Le Chat) has far less brand recognition than ChatGPT…