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The only people more sympathetic than Apple’s struggling AI division are Apple’s users who have not had the promised updates to Siri. After over a year of talking about their own inhouse trained models, Apple announced that they are picking Google’s Gemini to power Siri, with a security layer still provided by Apple Private Cloud Compute. A nice win for Google and a comparative loss for OpenAI, which Apple initially partnered with for their AI launch but is increasingly having rumors of their consumer hardware device shipping this year, which may have factored into the decision.

xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, and raised $20 billion.

Manus had a very hypey launch in March of this year, and after raising from Benchmark at $500M in April and racing to $100M ARR on Dec 17, and Meta came calling. Over a 10 day period including the Christmas break, Alex Wang (and presumably his apps leader Nat Friedman) hammered out an acquisition for an estimated $4B price tag (comparable growth startups, admittedly in B2B, would fetch about 40-50x revenue in private markets.

Execuhires first started in Aug 2024 and again in Jun 2025, but it seems Christmas Eve 2025 isn’t too late for a hat-trick. In a 5 sentence post, Groq confirmed it’s “non-exclusive licensing agreement” for most of Groq’s leadership team to join Nvidia, leaving behind GroqCloud, while the current CFO will become the CEO of the old Groq, for reported total consideration of $20 billion cash.

Nano Banana Pro 可以帮助您将任何想法可视化，并设计任何内容——从原型到将数据表示为信息图表，再到将手写笔记转换为图表。

Gemini 2.5 Flash 強化版現已開放 Gemini 應用程式使用者。現在回覆內容更有條理，格式也更清楚。Gemini 2.5 Flash 會使用標題、清單和表格等元素，讓複雜的回覆更清楚易懂。我們也提升了圖像解讀能力，讓 Gemini 能更準確地解讀及回應你上傳的內容。

谷歌推出了升级版的推理模型 Gemini 2.5 Pro，并首次将其深度集成到 Google 搜索引擎中，提供“AI mode”或“AI Search”功能，旨在颠覆传统搜索体验。