News & Reviews:   AI

Apple is reportedly exploring the use of third?party AI models to enhance Siri, with Anthropic said to be asking for a multibillion?ringgit yearly fee. This marks a significant strategic shift for the company, traditionally known for building core features in-house.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed that artificial intelligence now performs up to 50 percent of the company’s internal work. This includes key areas such as customer service, software development, and internal operations.

On 25 June 2025, Meta won a copyright lawsuit in the United States, filed by a group of authors over its AI model training practices. While the court dismissed the claims, the judge issued a warning that the use of copyrighted materials in AI training may still face legal risks in the future.

Nobody wants to read and catch up on a "million" messages after a long day. This is why WhatsApp is introducing a new Private Message Summaries feature aimed at helping users read a summary of what they have missed in their most active chats.

On 23 June 2025, Microsoft introduced Mu, a compact language model designed to run directly on Windows devices. Built to enhance the new Settings agent, Mu is already available on preview builds for Copilot+ PCs, and it is provided free of charge.

A new research paper titled “AI Compute Sovereignty: Infrastructure Control Across Territories” was published on 20 June 2025 via SSRN, and is available to read for free (RM0).

Some companies like Samsung have been exploring voice instead of text prompts for AI platforms. With Gemini Live on the Samsung Galaxy S25 series devices, all the user has to do is ask Gemini Live for the answers they want. Check out our example scenarios here.

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A new study from the MIT Media Lab has found that frequent use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT may lead to reduced brain activity and memory retention during writing tasks.

Previously, we mentioned that Chinese AI companies could be using Malaysia to smuggle 15 hard drives. Now, Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) is currently investigating claims that a Chinese company used locally rented servers equipped with Nvidia chips to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.