AI-Weekly for Tuesday, April 15, 2025 – Issue 160

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week

A.) Major Llama Drama | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | April 7, 2025

Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s VP of generative AI, refuted allegations that the company trained its latest Llama 4 models using test sets to manipulate benchmark results, asserting that the claims are ‘simply not true.’

B.) Microsoft Copilot Vision Transforms Phone Cameras Into Interactive Visual Search Tools | Digitaltrends.com | April 7, 2025

Late last year, Microsoft introduced a new AI feature called Copilot Vision for the web, and now it’s being made available on mobile devices. This feature integrates with your phone’s camera to create interactive experiences in the real world, allowing it to analyze real-time video and photos stored on your device.

C.) Shopify CEO Says No New Hires Without Proof AI Can’t Do The Job | TheVerge.com | April 7, 2025

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke has mandated that teams must demonstrate why tasks cannot be accomplished using AI before requesting more headcount or resources, emphasizing that effective AI usage is now a core expectation embedded in performance reviews.

D.) Runway Launches Gen-4 Turbo, Generating AI Videos In Just 30 Seconds | X.com | April 7, 2025

Today we’re introducing Gen-4 Turbo. The fastest way to generate with our most powerful video model yet. With Gen-4 Turbo it now takes just 30 seconds to generate a 10 second video, making it ideal for rapid iteration and creative exploration. Now rolling out across all plans.

E.) Kawasaki Unveils AI-Powered Robotic Horse Corleo With Hydrogen Engine | X.com | April 5, 2025

Japanese company Kawasaki has unveiled CORLEO, an innovative robotic horse powered by a hydrogen engine and equipped with artificial intelligence. It constantly analyses the position of both the robot and the rider, ensuring that the rider is securely held in the saddle.

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5.) Google’s AI Makes You Apps | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 14, 2025

Google has launched Firebase Studio, an AI-powered app builder that transforms user prompts or sketches into functional prototypes using Gemini and Firebase tools. The platform simplifies the development process by chaining AI capabilities, enabling visual debugging, and integrating Genkit for adding intelligent features, making app creation more accessible than ever.

6.) OpenAI ChatGPT GPT-4.1 Mini Nano Launch Availability | TheVerge.com | April 14, 2025

OpenAI has launched GPT-4.1 along with Mini and Nano variants, boasting a one million token context window and significant performance upgrades in coding and instruction-following at lower cost. The new models are designed for developers and will replace GPT-4 and GPT-4.5 across platforms, marking a major step in OpenAI’s product evolution.

7.) OpenAI Releases GPT 4.1 Models With Improved Coding, Lower Prices, And Extended Context Length | X | April 14, 2025

New today in the API: GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 mini, and GPT 4.1 nano. These models are great at coding (54 on SWE-bench verified for a non-reasoning model!) and instruction following, and all three offer 1M context. We’ve also dropped prices: GPT 4.1 is 26% cheaper than 4o, and 4.1 nano is just 12c/MTok blended. Also: free GPT 4.1 in Windsurf for the next 7 days. We’re super excited about GPT 4.1. Try it out and let me know what you think.

8.) GPT-4.1 Is Here! OpenAI Is Back! | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | April 14, 2025

OpenAI unveils GPT-4.1, promising significant improvements in performance, reasoning, and real-time capability enhancements as it reasserts its dominance in the AI space.

9.) Nvidia To Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers In US | Blogs.nvidia.com | April 14, 2025

NVIDIA outlines its vision for revitalizing U.S. manufacturing by leveraging AI, digital twins and accelerated computing to create sustainable, efficient factories and support a skilled workforce. The company emphasizes collaboration between government, academia and industry to advance semiconductor production and broader industrial innovation.

10.) DolphinGemma: Google AI Model Understands Dolphin Chatter | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | April 12, 2024

Google and the Wild Dolphin Project have introduced DolphinGemma, an AI model trained on decades of dolphin vocalizations to identify communication patterns and assist researchers in real-time field analysis. Integrated with the CHAT system, the model aims to build a foundational vocabulary for interspecies interaction and will be released as an open model for broader scientific use.

11.) Training LLMS To Self-Detoxify Their Language | News.mit.edu | April 14, 2025

Researchers from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a new decoding algorithm called self-disciplined autoregressive sampling (SASA) that enables large language models to reduce toxic outputs during inference without retraining or altering model parameters. By identifying toxic versus non-toxic subspaces in the model’s embedding space, SASA guides language generation toward safer, more ethical outputs while preserving fluency and efficiency.

12.) OpenAI Plans To Wind Down GPT-4.5, Its Largest-Ever AI Model, In Its API | TechCrunch.com | April 14, 2025

OpenAI will phase out access to GPT-4.5 via its API by July 14, citing high costs and a strategic shift toward newer models like GPT-4.1, which offers similar or better performance at lower prices. GPT-4.5 will remain available in ChatGPT for paying users but is being retired from the API due to limited cost-effectiveness and benchmark performance.

13.) Debates Over AI Benchmarking Have Reached Pokémon | TechCrunch.com | April 14, 2025

AI benchmarking practices are under scrutiny as comparisons between models like Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude use unstandardized implementations, such as in a Pokémon gaming challenge where Gemini had interface advantages. The debate highlights how auxiliary tools and modified environments can distort performance metrics, complicating fair comparisons across AI systems.

14.) Apple’s Complicated Plan To Improve Its AI While Protecting Privacy | TheVerge.com | April 14, 2025

Apple is rolling out a new AI training strategy that compares synthetic data to anonymized user samples, enabling model improvements without directly accessing or storing personal information. The system leverages differential privacy and is included in beta versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS to enhance the accuracy of features like email summarization while safeguarding user privacy.

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15.) How To Automate Anything | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 13, 2025

Here The Neuron explores the rise of AI agents and how to create automated workflows using tools like Make and n8n, offering a practical guide to building agentic systems that combine language models, memory, planning, and tool use to streamline tasks.

16.) Almost Timely News: What The Heck Is N8N And Why Are AI Nerds Obsessed With It? | Chris Penn | YouTube.com | April 13, 2025

This episode explores how N8N serves as vital middleware to connect generative AI tools with existing systems, demonstrating real-world workflow automation that reduces manual effort and enhances productivity through seamless AI integration.

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17.) OpenAI’s New Feature (And Secret Model) | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 11, 2025

Here The Neuron reports on OpenAI’s rollout of a persistent memory feature for ChatGPT and hints at a mysterious new model, ‘Quasar Alpha,’ suspected to be OpenAI’s latest innovation with a 1M token context window and exceptional performance.

18.) Llama 4 Released: Huge Context, Huge Controversy | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 11, 2025

Matt Wolfe breaks down the release of Llama 4, highlighting its expanded context capabilities and the controversies surrounding its deployment in both public and private sectors.

19.) James Cameron Suggests AI May Be Necessary For Future Films Like Dune | Kotaku.com | April 11, 2025

The Terminator director seems to have joined the side of the technology he once warned us against.

20.) Apple Plans To Launch Delayed Siri Intelligence Features This Fall | MacWorld.com | April 11, 2025

A New York Times report states that a few within the company think it can bring Siri’s new features sooner rather than later.

21.) Microsoft Set To Officially Launch Recall Feature For Windows Users | TheVerge.com | April 11, 2025

The long-delayed feature is gradually rolling out, starting with Release Preview.

22.) OpenAI To Retire GPT-4, Fully Replacing It With GPT-4o On April 30 | Engadget.com | April 11, 2025

GPT-4o will fully replace it in ChatGPT on April 30.

23.) Doordash Expands Sidewalk Robot Delivery Across Us Cities | TheVerge.com | April 11, 2025

DoorDash now deploys rolling robots, alongside human drivers and drones.

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24.) WTF Is The Price Of AI These Days? | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 10, 2025

Here The Neuron breaks down the evolving landscape of AI pricing, highlighting Anthropic’s new Claude Max plan at $100 — $200/month, and how these tiers target power users needing higher usage limits. The article emphasizes that AI costs now vary widely based on usage intensity and access method.

25.) DeepMind CEO Says Google Will Eventually Merge Gemini And Veo AI Models | TechCrunch.com | April 10, 2025

In a recent appearance on Possible, a podcast co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said the search giant plans to eventually combine its Gemini AI models with its Veo video-generating models to improve the former’s understanding of the physical world.

26.) Hubspot Unveils 200+ New Features Including AI Agents At Spring Spotlight 2025 | Searchenginejournal.com | April 10, 2025

HubSpot unveils AI agents, new Workspaces, and key upgrades to Marketing Hub Enterprise in its Spring 2025 release, focused on speed and scale.

27.) Canva Adds AI Image Generation, Interactive Coding, Spreadsheets, And More To Its Platform | TechCrunch.com | April 10, 2025

Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI into their toolkits. It’s a signal of just how quickly AI has gained importance — regardless of what their customers say, graphic design software makers clearly seem to think they cannot survive without implementing some form of AI.

28.) OpenAI Updates Chatgpt To Reference Previous Conversations | TechCrunch.com | April 10, 2025

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations.

29.) Youtube Launches Free AI Music-Making Tool For Creators | TechCrunch.com | April 10, 2025

YouTube is launching a new feature that will allow creators to use AI technology to generate custom instrumental backing music that can be added to their videos. In an update published to its Creator Insider channel this week, the company shared that it’s beginning to roll out an update to its Creator Music marketplace that will allow creators to generate new tunes using AI prompts.

30.) Microsoft Celebrates 50th Birthday With Memorable Event | TheVerge.com | April 10, 2025

Three CEOs, a talk show format, and protesters made Microsoft’s 50th anniversary memorable.

April 9, 2025 📅️

31.) The State Of AI In 2025 (According To Stanford) | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 9, 2025

Here The Neuron summarizes key findings from Stanford’s 2025 AI Index report, revealing a surge in AI capabilities and adoption, significant drops in usage costs, mounting training expenses, and growing concerns over safety and environmental impact.

32.) Google Cloud Next — Gemini 2.5 Pro Everywhere | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | April 9, 2025

Matt Berman covers Google’s unveiling of Gemini 2.5 Pro at Cloud Next, highlighting its integration across the entire Google ecosystem and its potential to revolutionize enterprise and developer workflows.

33.) OpenAI Counter-Sues Musk, Seeks To Halt ‘Unlawful And Unfair’ Actions | TechCrunch.com | April 9, 2025

The dramatic tiff between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, shows no sign of letting up.

34.) Google DeepMind Adopts MCP Protocol For Gemini Models And Sdk | Demis Hassabis | X.com | April 9, 2025

MCP is a good protocol and it’s rapidly becoming an open standard for the AI agentic era. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be supporting it for our Gemini models and SDK. Look forward to developing it further with the MCP team and others in the industry.

35.) Samsung Finally Launches Ballie Home Robot With Gemini Upgrade | TheVerge.com | April 9, 2025

The home robot is coming this summer — now with Google’s Gemini AI.

36.) Anthropic Launches Claude’S Max Plan For Expanded Usage Limits And Enhanced Collaboration | Anthropic.com | April 9, 2025

Today we’re introducing the Max plan — designed for those who collaborate with Claude extensively and need expanded access for their most important work.

37.) Adobe Photoshop To Receive First AI Agent, Enhancing Creative Workflows | Zdnet.com | April 9, 2025

Adobe Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro are slated to get agentic AI workflows. Here’s what’s new.

38.) Google Uses AI To Enhance ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ For Las Vegas Sphere’S Giant Screen | TheVerge.com | April 9, 2025

Several AI models were used to increase resolution, extend backgrounds, and digitally recreate characters in scenes.

39.) WordPress.Com Launches Free AI-Powered Website Builder | WordPress.com | April 9, 2025

Creating a website should be simple. And now it’s as simple as having a conversation.

40.) Reddit Launches Google-Powered AI Search Tool For Faster Community Searches | Zdnet.com | April 9, 2025

The social media platform is using the power of Google to help you wade through more than 100,000 communities.

41.) James Cameron Eyes AI From Stability AI To Halve Blockbuster Film Costs | Hollywoodreporter.com | April 9, 2025

In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts, and whether input or outputs of models should be targeted: “We’re all models.”

42.) Elon Musk’S Xai Launches API For Flagship AI Model Grok 3 | TechCrunch.com | April 9, 2025

Billionaire Elon Musk has just been countersued by OpenAI, but that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API.

43.) Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash, Pro, Live API, And Veo 2 In Gemini API | Developers.googleblog.com | April 9, 2025

We’re thrilled to unveil new updates and capabilities to help developers like you build the future with Google AI this year at Cloud Next. From our newest Gemini 2.5 thinking models, to new advancements in the Live API for real-time interaction, and Veo 2 becoming generally available for high quality video generation, here’s a look at some of the exciting announcements this week for developers using the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

44.) Google Cloud Vertex AI Adds Text-To-Music Model Lyria, Expands Veo 2 And Chirp 3 | Cloud.google.com | April 9, 2025

Today, we’re continuing to invest in generative media by adding Lyria, Google’s text-to-music model, to Vertex AI in preview with allowlist. With the addition of music, Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across all modalities — video, image, speech, and music. This means you can build a complete, production ready asset starting from a text prompt, to an image, to a complete video asset with music and speech.

45.) Google Workspace Announces New Gemini-Powered AI Features For Business Workflow Automation | Workspace.google.com | April 9, 2025

Earlier this year, we made the best of Google AI available across all our commercial Workspace plans. Including advanced AI capabilities in core Workspace plans isn’t just a feature update; it’s our belief in action. AI is essential, and its power belongs in the hands of every business and every employee. We’re committed to practical innovation that delivers tangible value, day in and day out.

46.) Google Unveils Ironwood Tpu, Optimized For Generative AI Inference | Blog.Google | April 9, 2025

Ironwood is our most powerful, capable and energy efficient TPU yet, designed to power thinking, inferential AI models at scale.

47.) Google Announces New AI Capabilities For Businesses At Google Cloud Next 25 | Blog.Google | April 9, 2025

The chance to improve lives and reimagine things is why Google has been investing in AI and machine learning for more than two decades. We see it as the most important way we can advance our mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

48.) Google Launches A2a Protocol For Interoperable AI Agent Development | Developers.GoogleBlog.com | April 9, 2025

AI agents offer a unique opportunity to help people be more productive by autonomously handling many daily recurring or complex tasks. Today, enterprises are increasingly building and deploying autonomous agents to help scale, automate and enhance processes throughout the workplace — from ordering new laptops, to aiding customer service representatives, to assisting in supply chain planning.

April 8, 2025 📅️

49.) Who Is Llama 4 For? | TheNeuronDaily.com | April 8, 2025

Here The Neuron analyzes Meta’s rocky launch of Llama 4, highlighting its challenges, hardware demands, and practical limitations, while identifying the model’s intended users as cloud providers, companies with infrastructure, and Llama 3 upgraders awaiting more stable releases.

50.) “Thinking” AI Might Not Actually Think… | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | April 8, 2025

Matt Berman questions whether artificial intelligence truly engages in thought, exploring the difference between human cognition and the algorithmic processes driving today’s AI systems.

51.) Predicting The Next 5 Years Of AI Agents With Nvidia’s AI Chief | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | April 8, 2025

In this episode of The Next Wave Podcast, Nvidia executives Amanda Saunders and Bob Pette explore the future of agentic AI, discussing how intelligent digital agents will transform industries and tackle global challenges through secure, efficient deployment strategies.

52.) New AI Company Deep Cogito Releases Open-Source Models, Quickly Tops Performance Charts | VentureBeat.com | April 8, 2025

Deep Cogito, a new AI research startup based in San Francisco, officially emerged from stealth today with Cogito v1, a new line of open source large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.2 and equipped with hybrid reasoning capabilities — the ability to answer quickly and immediately, or “self-reflect” like OpenAI’s “o” series and DeepSeek R1.

53.) Carmack Defends Microsoft AI Tools Amid Backlash Over Quake Ii Demo | Arstechnica.com | April 8, 2025

On Monday, John Carmack, co-creator of id Software’s Quake franchise, defended Microsoft’s recent AI-generated Quake II demo against criticism from a fan about the technology’s impact on industry jobs, calling it “impressive research work.”

54.) Amazon’S Zoox Begins Robotaxi Testing On Los Angeles Streets | TechCrunch.com | April 8, 2025

Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday — a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year.

55.) Nvidia’S Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra Outperforms Deepseek R1 At Half The Size | VentureBeat.com | April 8, 2025

Even as Meta fends off questions and criticisms of its new Llama 4 model family, graphics processing unit (GPU) master Nvidia has released a new, fully open source large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s older model Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct model and it’s claiming near top performance on a variety of third-party benchmarks — outperforming the vaunted rival DeepSeek R1 open source reasoning model.

56.) Snapchat Launches Sponsored AI Lenses To Boost Brand Engagement | TechCrunch.com | April 8, 2025

Snapchat is introducing Sponsored AI Lenses, a new ad format that lets brands engage with consumers in an immersive way. While Snapchat has offered brands the opportunity to pay for sponsored lenses on the platform for years, now they can leverage AI-generated experiences powered by Snap’s proprietary generative AI technology.

57.) IBM Z17 Delivers Multi-Model AI Capabilities For Enhanced Transaction Processing | TheRegister.com | April 8, 2025

IBM’s latest mainframe builds on the platform’s traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents.

58.) Google Launches Deep Research Feature On Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental For Gemini Advanced Users | Blog.Google | April 8, 2025

Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental. Gemini Advanced subscribers can now use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, the world’s most capable AI model according to industry reasoning benchmarks and Chatbot Arena.

59.) Google Enhances Geospatial Reasoning Using Generative AI And Foundation Models | Research.google | April 8, 2025

We’re introducing new geospatial foundation models and bringing them together with Geospatial Reasoning, a research effort that uses generative AI to accelerate geospatial problem solving. This can unlock powerful insights for crisis response, public health, climate resilience, commercial applications, and more.

60.) OpenAI Launches Evals API For Automated Prompt Evaluation And Testing | X.com | April 8, 2025

Introducing the Evals API. You can now programmatically define tests, automate evaluation runs, and quickly iterate on prompts. Evals are still available in the dashboard — and now through the API, so you can integrate them anywhere in your workflow.

61.) Together AI Launches Open-Source Deepcoder-14B Coding Reasoning Model | X.com | April 8, 2025

Announcing DeepCoder-14B — an o1 & o3-mini level coding reasoning model fully open-sourced! We’re releasing everything: dataset, code, and training recipe. Built in collaboration with the @Agentica_ team. See how we created it.

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62.) The 2025 AI Index Report | Hai.stanford.edu | April 7, 2025

Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Report presents a comprehensive, data-driven assessment of artificial intelligence’s expanding role in society, providing policymakers, business leaders, and the public with critical insights into AI’s technical advances, economic impact, and broader implications.

63.) 12 Graphs That Explain The State Of AI In 2025 | Spectrum.ieee.org | April 7, 2025

Here IEEE Spectrum presents 12 key charts from Stanford’s AI Index 2025, offering a visual deep dive into trends like U.S. dominance in model development, escalating training costs, and the declining cost of AI inference as technology and efficiency improve.

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