Welcome back to review week! There were a lot of reasons why Windsurf lost access to Claude, new features in ChatGpt, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk’s fight against Donald Trump, and more. Have a great weekend!
duh: In an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic co-founder gave a completely reasonable explanation of why they would reduce access to Windsurf. It seems to me that’s a good reason!
Everything is the same: Chinese Lab Deepseek released an updated version of its R1 Reasoning AI model last week, and works well with many math and coding benchmarks. Currently, some AI researchers speculate that at least some of the source data it trained came from Google’s Gemini family of AI.
WWDC 2025: Apple’s annual developer meeting begins on Monday. Beyond the newly designed operating system, we hope to see it at this year’s events, including dedicated gaming apps and updates for Mac, Watch, TV and more.
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Front Business: ChatGPT has gained new features for business users, including connectors for Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive. This allows ChatGpt to search for information and answer questions across your own services.
What a disaster: Indian grocery delivery startup Kiranapro has been hacked and all of its data has been wiped out. The company says it has 55,000 customers, between 30,000 and 35,000 active buyers in 50 cities, collecting 2,000 orders every day.
Artistic people are delighted! Photoshop is currently coming to Android, so users of Google’s operating system can also pack images. This app has similar editing tools to the desktop version, such as layering and masking.
Let’s try again: Tesla failed after submitting a new trademark application for “Tesla Robotaxi” and attempting to trademark the terms “Robotaxi” and “Cybercab.”
Roll the dough: Tech Startup Anduril received a $1 billion investment as part of a new $2.5 billion salary increase led by the Founders Fund. That is, Anduril doubled its valuation to $30.5 billion.
On the road again: When Toma founders realized that the car dealer was drowning with a missed call, they bumped into the road to see the issue firsthand. That summer road trip turned to $17 million A16Z-backed funding that helps Toma bring AI phone agents to more than 100 dealers across the US.
Fighting season: All gloves were off Thursday as Elon Musk and President Trump went to their respective social networks and throw jabs at each other. While it may be exciting to see rich men compete in public, the fallout between the world’s wealthiest person and the sitting US president promises to have a broader impact on the tech industry.
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Money talk: AI friend, therapist or shechatbots are trained to keep talking. For large tech companies, it is more competitive than ever to keep users there, and not as competitive as ever, to attract users to the chatbot platform.
