🚀 Major Launches & Innovations
1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches "Agentic AI" platform
– AWS introduced Bedrock AgentCore, a platform for building scalable and secure AI agents, along with a $100M investment in a new “AI Innovation Center” for agentic systems.
2. Complex task automation via AWS Agents
– These AI agents can now perform multi-step tasks like customer onboarding, payment processing, or legal research autonomously using tools like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q.
3. Perplexity releases Comet Browser & Mobile AI Assistant
– Perplexity AI launched Comet, a Chromium-based browser built around AI agents, and released a new multimodal mobile assistant for iOS/Android.
📚 Research & Applications
4. MIT introduces SEAL – Self-Learning AI
– SEAL solves puzzles with self-training, achieving up to 72.5% accuracy in complex scenarios with no external feedback — a breakthrough in autonomous learning.
5. DeepSeek open-source chatbot takes China by storm
– DeepSeek AI surpassed ChatGPT in mobile downloads and offers a completely open-source LLM alternative from China.
6. Vastav AI fights deepfakes for law enforcement
– India-based Vastav AI provides a free platform for detecting image, video, and voice deepfakes — widely adopted by law enforcement.
🏛️ Government & Big Investment
7. AI startups raise billions
– Perplexity, Anthropic, and Thinking Machines among startups hitting massive fundraising milestones this month.
8. UK launches £1.3B supercomputing push for AI
– Britain plans to increase computing power 20x to support domestic AI development.
9. Elon Musk’s xAI secures $200M Pentagon deal
– Despite controversies with Grok chatbot, xAI won a US military contract to build strategic AI systems.
🎨 Creative & Consumer Tools
10. Netflix uses AI-generated VFX
– An upcoming Argentinian Netflix series uses generative AI in its special effects pipeline.
11. Kling AI redefines AI storytelling
– Kling launches "Loading...", an AI-created anthology series blending realism and sci-fi.
12. GHD unveils AI-powered hair assistant
– Haircare brand GHD launched CurlFinder, an AI tool that recommends products based on hair type and user photos.
🧠 Summary
AI agents are becoming the dominant form factor in tools — capable of multi-step reasoning and action.
Ethical oversight and deepfake detection are hot priorities, especially in law and media.
Governments and defense sectors are heavily funding AI development for sovereign capabilities.
AI in creative industries is expanding fast — from video and story generation to personal care tools.