🗞️ AI Digest [06 Nov 2025]

🔸 Google Maps bakes in Gemini to improve navigation and hands-free use [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Google's AI Mode Can Now Arrange Your Appointments and Event Tickets [lifehacker.com] 🔸 Build software sustainably in the AI era [google.com] 🔸 SoftBank, OpenAI launch new joint venture in Japan as AI deals grow ever more circular [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Google explains the ‘Nano Banana’ name — and it wasn’t a grand plan [androidauthority.com] 🔸 Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI [schneier.com] 🔸 Most admins say they need a major overhaul of data in order to succeed with AI [techradar.com] 🔸 Falling Into Smarter Writing: Chowa Widgets, AI Feedback, and More Launches [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B [techcrunch.com] 🔸 NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India’s next deep tech startups [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Cloud CISO Perspectives: Recent advances in how threat actors use AI tools [google.com] 🔸 More ways to build, scale, and govern AI agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder [google.com] 🔸 NotebookLM Can Now Turn Your Notes Into a Video [lifehacker.com] 🔸 Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Predictive Process Monitoring Using Graph Neural Networks [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Perplexity Bets $400M On Snapchat To Scale AI Search Adoption [searchenginejournal.com] 🔸 Gemini Can Now Create “Presentations” with One Prompt! [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Google Cloud updates its AI Agent Builder with new observability dashboard and faster build-and-deploy tools [venturebeat.com] 🔸 Google makes it easier to access AI Mode in Chrome on iOS and Android [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Former Meta employees launch a ring to take voice notes and control music [techcrunch.com] 🔸 OpenAI and Amazon Agree to $38 Billion Deal [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos [techcrunch.com] 🔸 ChatGPT memories are disappearing for some users – here’s what you can do to protect yours [techradar.com] 🔸 The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model [coindesk.com] 🔸 Portal26 Raises $9 Million for Gen-AI Adoption Platform [securityweek.com] 🔸 AI SEO: How To Understand AI Mode Rankings [searchenginejournal.com] 🔸 Improving Structured Outputs in the Gemini API [blog.google] 🔸 Feature Stores 2.0: The Next Frontier of Scalable Data Engineering for AI [hackernoon.com] 🔸 AI’s capacity crunch: Latency risk, escalating costs, and the coming surge-pricing breakpoint [venturebeat.com] 🔸 Hut 8’s Tuesday Tumble Misguided and a Buying Opportunity: Benchmark [coindesk.com] 🔸 Listen to the Brazilian rainforests and help contribute to AI research [blog.google] 🔸 Malware Now Uses AI During Execution to Mutate and Collect Data, Google Warns [securityweek.com] 🔸 From logs to insights: The AI breakthrough redefining observability [venturebeat.com] 🔸 New IIL Setting: Enhancing Deployed Models with Only New Data [hackernoon.com] 🔸 ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others [ctvnews.ca] 🔸 This startup’s metal stacks could help solve AI’s massive heat problem [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Why Nonparametric Models Deserve a Second Look [towardsdatascience.com] 🔸 Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Humanizing AI Marketing: How to Make Automation Feel Authentic [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Pinterest CEO touts open source AI: ‘tremendous performance’ with reduced costs [techcrunch.com] 🔸 The 5% Rule: What can you do That AI Still Can’t? [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri, report says [techcrunch.com]