STORY: From why Elon Musk says Apple is being mean to Grok, to how bots reinvented the Wizard of Oz, this is AI Weekly.
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Elon Musk’s xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI, claiming they conspired to thwart competition.
He says they gave prominence to ChatGPT in Apple’s app store, while limiting the profile of his competing chatbot Grok.
OpenAI said the case was just another example of what it called Musk’s “pattern of harassment”.
Meta is set to back political candidates who back lighter regulation of AI.
The Facebook parent says it will set up a California-focused political action committee to back state-level candidates from either party.
It plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on the effort, potentially putting it among the state’s top politicial spenders ahead of a 2026 governor race.
DeepSeek has unveiled an upgraded model that it says is can be optimised to work with Chinese chips.
That may signal it’s positioned to work with the country’s own semiconductor makers, as Beijing pushes to reduce its reliance on U.S. tech.
Earlier this year, DeepSeek shook the sector when it released an AI model able to compete with the likes of ChatGPT, but developed at much lower cost.
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AI has reimagined “The Wizard of Oz”.
The famous film will be shown in Las Vegas on a towering spherical screen that surrounds viewers.
AI tools preserve the original performances, but also add new elements.
Ben Grossman is the boss of visual effects firm Magnopus:
“We need to drastically increase the resolution and detail of the original movie, we need to complete the missing parts of the people who were cut off and then we need to create the continuity of the scene so that the performances that you know are there are actually there.”
And Google focused on AI when unveiling its latest Pixel phones.
That includes a “coach” in the camera app that can help users take better pictures.
There’s also an AI assistant that can display useful information before it’s even asked, such as showing a flight confirmation email when the user calls an airline.
