AI in a Nutshell - Week 45 - Siri Gets Smarter, Google Gets Sued, and ChatGPT Shrinks the Job Market
Apple pays Google $1B a year to upgrade Siri, ChatGPT quietly kills job ads, AI is interviewing people now, and Amazon goes after Perplexity’s shopping bots.
Fellow human, it’s week 45. AI hasn’t taken over the world yet. And here’s your lazy-man version of what went down in the AI world in the past week.
Summary for extra lazy people: Apple to pay Google $1B a year to upgrade Siri, ChatGPT quietly kills job ads, AI is interviewing people now, and Amazon goes after Perplexity’s shopping bots.
What You Must Know
Viral: Redditor Gets Interviewed by an AI → A Reddit post went viral after someone realized their entire “job interview” was with an AI. The debate now is: if companies use bots to hire, can candidates use bots to answer? 🤔
Apple Pays Google $1B a Year to Smarten Up Siri → Apple will pay Google $1 billion annually to integrate Gemini AI into Siri. The new version should make Siri sharper.
ChatGPT Shrinks Job Ads by 32% → A Stanford study found ChatGPT’s rise led to a 32% drop in job postings, hitting young workers hardest. So yeah, AI is taking some jobs, just not mine (yet).
Google’s AI Can Now Make Slides from a Note → Google’s Gemini Canvas now turns your rough notes into full presentations. I’d call it “PowerPoint for people with better things to do” 😅
Amazon Sues Perplexity Over AI Shopping Agents → Amazon’s lawyers want Perplexity’s AI shopping agents to stop making purchases on their own.
What’s Good to Know
Parallel Search Launches High-Accuracy Web API for AI → Parallel launched a web search API designed specifically for AI models, claiming “the highest accuracy on the web.”
Maye Musk Uses AI to Relive Her Runway Days → Elon Musk’s mom, Maye, used Grok AI to recreate her first grandmother modeling job at the age of 42, and the result looks surprisingly real.
Breaking Bad’s Creator Roasts AI Laziness → Vince Gilligan joked that people using AI for every little thing are “forgetting how to think”. Fair point, I must say.
Google Updates Vertex AI Agent Builder → Google improved Vertex AI Agent Builder, making it easier for developers to move from prototype bots to production-ready agents.
Chinese Lab Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K2 Model → China’s Moonshot AI released an open-source reasoning model that “they claim“ matches (and sometimes beats) GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks.
Money Moves This Week
Giga raised $61 million in Series A funding to scale its AI technology platform.
Fastbreak AI raised $40 million in Series A funding to bring AI innovation to sports technology.
IndustrialMind raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI for manufacturing optimization.
Subtle Computing raised $6 million in seed funding to advance its general AI infrastructure.
Inception Labs raised $50 million in seed funding to build diffusion-based AI models.
Kaizen Corner → The Best AI Users Are Professional Question-Askers
When people say “ChatGPT gave me nonsense”, it usually (at times) means they threw a lazy question at it and hoped for magic. That’s like walking into a restaurant and shouting, “Food, please!”
You’ll get something, but probably some dish from Kenya.
The best AI users act like detectives. They:
Ask specific questions (“Explain like I’m new to marketing” is better than “Explain marketing”)
Follow up when answers are vague (“Give me examples from fintech”)
Clarify goals (“I’m trying to write a headline, not an essay”)
You don’t need to command AI; you need to converse with it. Treat it like a curious intern: it knows a lot, but it needs direction.
Meme of the Week
That’s your week in AI.
If you learned something, tell a friend. And if you didn’t, blame yourself :)
Until next Sunday,
Kay - your fellow human.
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Insightful, I wonder how we ensure a fair tranistion for young workers as AI transforms hiring; your analisys is always so sharp.