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Tuesday • October 14, 2025
Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option
The Company on Tuesday Announced that It’s Bringing AI Answer Engine Perplexity to Firefox, Letting Customers Decide Whether They Want to Use AI
While AI companies, startups, and others are rolling out their own web browsers that embed AI services deep into the web surfing experience, Mozilla’s Firefox is instead allowing its customers to swap out their default search engine for an AI-powered search option in the browser they already use.
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Tuesday • October 14, 2025
Walmart partners with OpenAI for ChatGPT shopping feature
Shares of the Company Rose 5% to $107.21 at Market Close Following the Announcement
Walmart said on Tuesday it was partnering with OpenAI to enable customers and Sam’s Club members to shop directly within ChatGPT, using the AI chatbot’s Instant Checkout feature. The world’s largest retailer is expanding its use of artificial intelligence as companies across sectors adopt the technology to simplify tasks and cut costs.
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Tuesday • October 7, 2025
Anthropic and IBM Partner in Bid for AI Business Customers
The AI Startup and Enterprise Tech Giant Team Up to Make Anthropic’s Claude Models Available to Developers on IBM’s Software
IBM’s latest integrated developer environment, or IDE, is the first product in which Anthropic’s flagship Claude AI models will be directly available. The tool is aimed at software engineers working for large businesses, and helps to automate development tasks like modernizing code. IBM said it plans to add Claude into more of its software soon.
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Tuesday • October 7, 2025
Mattel partners with OpenAI on Sora 2 AI video model
Toymaker Mattel is Partnering with OpenAI to Test the ChatGPT Maker’s Artificial-Intelligence Video Model Sora 2
“Mattel has been a great partner working with us to test Sora 2 in the API (application programming interface) and see what they can do to bring product ideas to life more quickly. So one of their designers can now start with a sketch and then turn these early concepts into something that you can see and share and react to,” Altman said.
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Monday • October 6, 2025
Tencent’s AI model Hunyuan Image 3.0 tops leaderboard, beating Google’s Nano Banana
Released Late in September, Hunyuan Image 3.0 is the Industry’s Biggest Open-Source Image-Generation Model to Date
Tencent Holdings’ new artificial intelligence model, Hunyuan Image 3.0, has surpassed Google DeepMind’s “Nano Banana” as the leading image-generation model among both open-source and closed products, according to a major public leaderboard.
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Friday • October 3, 2025
OpenAI’s Sora soars to No. 1 on Apple’s US App Store
OpenAI’s Sora App for AI Videos is a Viral Hit, Despite Being Invite-Only for Now and Limited to Users in the U.S. and Canada at Launch
On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. On Friday, October 3, it became the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store. That puts it ahead of Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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