Each week, we bring you 5 stories that resonated the most in our internal Slack channel #AI-news. We write the newsletter using various AI tools because we're an AI company and our marketing wants to move with the times too. 😎
Today you're reading the 70th issue in a row.
#1
OpenAI and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive 🤝: Team up to develop new AI devices 📱🧠.
OpenAI is making a bold move into consumer electronics 🤖📱. It has acquired the startup “io,” secretly co-founded by CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive 🧠🍎. The deal is valued at $6.5 billion 💸, entirely in stock 📈. Ive and his team—many of whom helped create iconic Apple products—will now lead design efforts at OpenAI 🎨.
Their goal is to develop new AI-powered devices that don’t rely on traditional screens 🔍📵. The first products could arrive as early as 2026 📆. This is OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date 🏆 and could put pressure on Apple, which has so far lagged behind in the AI space ⚠️🍏.
Altman says he wants AI tools to feel more natural and seamlessly fit into everyday life 🧑💼🌍—and in his view, traditional laptops and smartphones just aren’t enough anymore 💻📵.
#2
Anthropic warns ⚠️: AI could displace millions of workers by 2030 💼🤖!
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic 🤖, says artificial intelligence is already capable of performing many office tasks 💼—such as writing reports 📝, summarizing documents 📄, and programming 💻—at the level of a smart college student 🎓. He warns this could lead to major job losses 📉, especially in lower-level office positions. Unemployment in the U.S. 🇺🇸 could reach as high as 20% by 2030 ⚠️.
Amodei points out 🔍 that most of the public 👥 and politicians 🧑⚖️ are not prepared for this shift. He’s calling for swift policy action 🏛️ to manage the impact of AI on the labor market—and even supports taxing AI companies 💰, despite it going against the interests of his own business 🏢.
While AI offers many benefits 🌐, Amodei stresses that action must be taken now ⏳ before it’s too late. If we want technology to serve society as a whole 🤝—and not just a few corporations 💼—we need to start addressing its impact on jobs today 📆.
#3
DeepSeek R1-0528 🧠: New open-source AI model outperforms paid competitors 💥.
AI company DeepSeek 🤖 has released an updated version of its open-source reasoning model 🧠—R1-0528. According to benchmarks, it matches or even surpasses the performance of paid models like OpenAI's o3 🧩 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro 🌐, especially in coding tasks 💻 and complex problem-solving 🧮.
The model is free to use, comes with an MIT license 📜, and is easy to integrate—supporting function calling, JSON outputs 📦, and system-level instructions 🗂️. For users without high-end hardware 🖥️, a lighter 8B version ⚖️ is also available. Developer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive 👍, with many calling R1-0528 the best open-source model they've used 🏅.
With this release, DeepSeek firmly positions itself among the global leaders 🌍 in AI—proving that open-source solutions 🔓 can compete with the biggest names in the industry 🏢.
#4
Meta 🎯: AI ad creation tool coming soon for all businesses 🤖💼!
Meta 📱 plans to launch a new tool by the end of 2025 that will let companies build entire ad campaigns using artificial intelligence 🤖. Just describe your product, set a budget 💰, and the AI will handle the rest—creating images, videos, copy, and targeted ads 🎯. Ads will even adapt in real time ⏱️, showing different versions to different users based on factors like location 📍.
For small and medium-sized businesses 🏪, this could be a huge help. Meta has high hopes for this automation push 🚀, aiming to maintain its $100+ billion annual ad business 💸 while also fueling further investment into its AI infrastructure 🧠.
But not everyone is excited 😬. Some big brands 🏢 are cautious—worried that AI-generated ads might feel impersonal or unpolished, and that they’ll lose control over the visual style and messaging they’ve carefully built over time 🎨.
#5
OpenAI ☁️: ChatGPT now connects to your Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive 🔗📄.
OpenAI 🧠 has added integration with Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint ☁️ to ChatGPT—available for Team, Enterprise, and Edu users 🏢👨🏫. This means you can now ask ChatGPT something like, “What were our Q1 revenues?” and it will answer based directly on documents stored in your cloud 📂. It respects file permissions 🔐, and responses include citations 🔍.
Another new feature is “record mode” 🎙️—a note-taking tool for meetings or brainstorming sessions. It automatically generates timestamps ⏱️, task summaries ✅, and organized notes 📝 to help you stay on track even after the meeting ends.
These features are clearly aimed at business users 💼. OpenAI is positioning itself more firmly in the enterprise AI tools space 🧩, where major players like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon already compete aggressively 🏢📊.
