“Apple must win AI”

What we’ll cover today:

🧠 OpenAI’s plan to build agents that actually do your work

✂️ Anthropic cutting OpenAI off from Claude

🍏 Apple’s secret “Answer Engine” and Siri shakeup

🚀 Tim Cook’s all-in bet on AI

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Before TikTok or Reels, Vine ruled short-form video. Then it vanished.

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• Fast video generation → Grok Imagine creates short videos in half or even a quarter of the time it takes most tools to make a single image.

• Prompt-based creation → Users describe a scene, and Grok Imagine produces a short clip complete with sound.

• Vine archive restoration → Musk says the original Vine archive has been recovered and may soon be accessible for reposts.

• Potential impact → Combining Vine’s format with instant AI video could give X an advantage over TikTok and Instagram Reels.

• Who can use it → Currently in beta for $30 per month SuperGrok subscribers, with a waitlist for others.

🧠 OpenAI’s Push for AI Agents

• OpenAI’s reasoning models, born from math competition training, are now core to its agent strategy.

• Breakthrough came with “Strawberry” in 2023, combining LLMs, reinforcement learning, and more compute at answer time.

• Led to the o1 model, attracting top researcher poaching from Meta with nine‑figure offers.

• Current agents handle coding well but still struggle with subjective tasks.

• GPT‑5 is expected to push agent capability into more complex domains. [Read Full Story]

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✂️ Anthropic Blocks OpenAI’s Access

• Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to Claude models for product development.

• OpenAI had been using Claude for internal benchmarking and GPT‑5 preparation. [Read Full Story]

• Anthropic calls it a terms‑of‑service violation, OpenAI says it is industry standard.

• Limited access remains for safety and benchmarking purposes.

• The move reflects growing competitive protectionism among AI labs.

🍏 Apple’s “Answer Engine” Project

• Apple has formed a new team called “Answers, Knowledge, and Information.”

• The goal is to build a ChatGPT‑style search system for Siri, Safari, or a standalone app.

• The team is hiring search algorithm specialists. [Read Full Story]

• Siri integration has been repeatedly delayed.

• The project may alter Apple’s existing search partnership with Google.

🚀 Tim Cook on Winning in AI

• Tim Cook told employees Apple must lead in AI. [Read Full Story]

• Follows investor promises of significantly higher AI spending.

• Acknowledged delays in Siri upgrades and being behind competitors.

• Cited Apple’s history of entering late but redefining products.

• Reinforced AI as a top corporate priority moving forward.

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