Apple’s WWDC unveils AI update across platforms

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: Apple’s WWDC unveils AI update across platforms + Mistral launches Mistral Code

💰 Funding: Meta could invest $10Bn into Scale AI

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. Apple’s WWDC unveiled a slew of new AI updates across its platforms. Here are some of the highlights:

• Apple’s new Foundation Models framework, revealed at WWDC 2025, lets developers easily integrate on-device Apple Intelligence AI models into apps for offline, privacy-focused experiences without cloud costs.

• Apple’s highly anticipated AI-powered, personalized Siri was notably absent from WWDC 25 as the company delayed its release to 2026 due to quality issues, instead leaning on OpenAI integrations and showcasing a suite of other AI tools to maintain competitiveness.

• Apple launched Xcode 26 with integrated ChatGPT for AI-assisted coding, documentation, and debugging, while also enabling developers to connect other AI models and access Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models framework for local AI-powered programming.

• Apple introduced an AI-powered Shortcuts app at WWDC 2025, enabling users to incorporate Apple Intelligence and third-party AI models into dynamic, intelligent automation workflows via new shortcut actions like text summarization and image creation.

2. French AI startup Mistral launched Mistral Code, an enterprise-focused, AI-powered coding client integrating multiple proprietary models for code completion, search, and agentic tasks, with customization and deployment options aimed at challenging leading vibe coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Windsurf.

3. Anthropic has released Claude Gov, a suite of AI models customized for U.S. national security agencies that enhance intelligence analysis, operational support, and strategic planning with advanced handling of classified materials and critical language proficiency, now deployed in classified environments.

4. OpenAI has reached $10Bn in annual recurring revenue, now serving over 500 million weekly users and 3 million business customers, and is targeting $125Bn by 2029 as it rapidly scales ChatGPT and enterprise adoption while continuing heavy investments in AI infrastructure and talent.

5. Google’s updated Gemini 2.5 Pro model, now available to developers and soon rolling out broadly, significantly improves coding abilities and creativity, positioning the model to compete on top-tier benchmarks across programming, math, and reasoning tasks.

6. A new Apple study reveals that cutting-edge large reasoning models (LRMs) dramatically fail when solving complex problems, prompting warnings from experts that the tech industry’s current AI approaches may be fundamentally incapable of achieving human-level artificial general intelligence.

7. AMC Networks is partnering with AI video platform Runway to integrate advanced AI tools across its marketing and TV development processes, aiming to accelerate creative workflows and enhance storytelling and promotional impact for its globally renowned programming.

8. The FDA’s agency-wide rollout of its new LLM Elsa—touted as a breakthrough for scientific and regulatory efficiency—is being criticized internally as rushed, buggy, inaccurate, and lacking clear guardrails, raising fears that political motivations and staff cuts are being prioritized over scientific rigor and public safety.

9. Amazon has launched a new R&D group within its Lab126 hardware division to develop agentic AI frameworks aimed at enhancing the intelligence and skill sets of its warehouse robots, signaling a strategic push to integrate advanced AI into both its logistics operations and future consumer products.

10. In a protective move following its acquisition by xAI, social platform X has updated its developer agreement to prohibit third parties from using its content or API data to train or fine-tune LLMs, reversing prior policy allowances and mirroring a growing trend among tech companies to safeguard proprietary data from AI competitors.

11. Hugging Face has launched SmolVLA, a highly efficient 450M parameter vision-language-action robotics model that outperforms larger models, runs on consumer hardware like MacBooks, supports fast, asynchronous inference, and is part of the company's broader push to democratize robotics through its open-source LeRobot ecosystem and new robotics hardware offerings.

12. FutureHouse has released ether0, an open 24B-parameter reinforcement-trained AI model that excels at designing drug-like molecules by reasoning in natural language, signaling a path toward AI scientists for accelerating discovery in chemistry and beyond.

13. Anthropic abruptly shut down its Claude Explains AI-generated blog just a week after promoting it as a showcase for Claude’s writing abilities, following criticism over transparency and concerns about the risk of inaccurate content undermining the company’s marketing credibility.

14. Reddit has become the first Big Tech company to sue an AI model provider, filing a lawsuit against Anthropic for allegedly scraping Reddit’s data over 100,000 times without authorization or compensation to train its AI models, while demanding damages, restitution, and an injunction to halt the practice.

15. OpenAI is fighting a court order driven by The New York Times' lawsuit that would force it to indefinitely retain consumer ChatGPT and API data, which the company argues would violate its user privacy commitments and industry norms, with the contested data secured under strict legal hold and not automatically shared.

16. Getty Images is suing Stability AI in a landmark UK High Court trial, accusing the company of “brazen infringement” of its photo library to train the Stable Diffusion image generator without licensing or respect for intellectual property rights, in a case that could reshape global content licensing talks.

💰 Top Funding News:

1.  Meta is in discussions to invest over $10Bn in Scale AI, which would mark Meta’s largest external AI investment and one of the largest funding rounds ever for a private company.

2. AMD has acquired stealth AI software startup Brium, which develops tools to make AI models more portable across hardware platforms, in a bid to counter Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware; terms of the deal were not disclosed.

3. Anysphere, which develops the AI coding assistant Cursor, raised a $900M round led by Thrive Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and DST Global.

4. Toma, which builds AI voice agents to automate customer communication and service workflows for automotive dealerships, raised a $17M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator, Flex Capital, Holman, and angel investors.

5. Rosebud, which uses therapist-backed AI and memory technology to power a personal growth and mental health journaling app, raised a $6M Seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from 776, Initialized Capital, Fuel Capital, Avenir, Tim Ferriss, and other strategic investors.

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