🗞️ AI Digest [17 oct 2025]

🚀 Hugging Face Introduces RTEB, a New Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval Models 🚀 Anthropic Launches Faster, Lower-cost Claude Haiku 4.5 Model 🚀 Microsoft launches 'Hey Copilot' voice assistant and autonomous agents for all Windows 11 PCs 🔸 Google’s Liz Reid: The real search shift is behavioral, not AI 🔸 Stop Feeling Lost: How to Master ML System Design 🔸 Walmart gives ChatGPT checkout power 🔸 The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup 🔸 How to Run your ML Notebook on Databricks? 🔸 Google is going Bananas: Even Messages could get this viral image generation tool 🔸 Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed 🔸 OpenAI just gave Sora 2 two big upgrades – including longer videos for free users 🔸 DeepSomatic, an open-source AI model, is speeding up genetic analysis for cancer research. 🔸 How to Evaluate Retrieval Quality in RAG Pipelines: Precision@k, Recall@k, and F1@k 🔸 How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows 🔸 More massive layoffs could be in store for Amazon workers - as the company pledges billions to AI 🔸 Your Brand Is Being Cited By AI. Here’s How To Measure It 🔸 Kayak launches an ‘AI Mode’ for travel questions, search, and bookings 🔸 Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands 🔸 Arm, Meta Partner to Improve AI Power Efficiency 🔸 Matters.AI Raises $6.25 Million to Safeguard Enterprise Data 🔸 The Keyboard Is Dead. Long Live the Conversation. 🔸 ACE prevents context collapse with ‘evolving playbooks’ for self-improving AI agents 🔸 General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips 🔸 Under the hood of AI agents: A technical guide to the next frontier of gen AI 🔸 AWS Launches Amazon Quick Suite, an Agentic AI Workspace 🔸 As Broadcom becomes its latest major ally, this graph shows how OpenAI made itself too big to fail by securing hundreds of billions from the world's largest tech companies 🔸 Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M 🔸 Reclaiming Data: Why Tech Needs Data Realism 🔸 Find AI Software and Compute Grants and Credits via HackerNoon AI 🔸 Blackrock-backed Consortium to Buy Aligned Data Centers in $40 Billion Deal 🔸 IBM Cloud Code Engine Serverless Fleets with GPUs for High-Performance AI and Parallel Computing 🔸 Meta Breaks Ground on $1.5B AI Data Center in El Paso 🔸 10 years of genomics research at Google 🔸 ChatGPT could soon let you DM others using the Android app 🔸 Feature Detection, Part 1: Image Derivatives, Gradients, and Sobel Operator 🔸 Announcing prompt management in the Vertex AI SDK 🔸 Google Launches AI Hub in Visakhapatnam India with $15 Billion Commitment from 2026-2030 🔸 Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products 🔸 Jack & Jill raises $20 million to bring conversational AI to job-hunting