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ChatGPT’s once-clear lead? Fading fast. A hacker used Claude to run a full-blown cybercrime spree. And a new benchmark just crushed most “smart” research agents.
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AI INSIGHTS
For a long time, ChatGPT felt untouchable. But according to a16z’s latest AI trends report, that lead is shrinking fast. Gemini, Grok, and even some low-key Chinese players are gaining momentum:
Google’s Gemini is now the #2 AI app on mobile and a 90% share on Android.
Grok’s a top-5 AI tool on the web and ranked #23 on mobile, with 20M+ users and growing.
Meanwhile, Meta is stuck at #46 on the web, not even ranked on mobile.
DeepSeek dropped 22% on mobile, 40% on web
Claude is holding on with steady web growth, but flat on mobile
Perplexity? Quietly climbing in both places
China’s AI makers are making global plays and they’re everywhere:
Doubao (ByteDance) is now #4 mobile AI app
Quark (Alibaba) ranks #9 on web
22 of the top 50 mobile AI apps are made in China
Lovable and Replit, two vibe-coding startups, made the list for the first time. Apps like PixAI, Talkie, Seekee, AI Mirror, and Photo AI are right on the edge of mainstream.
Why It Matters: This is the first report where ChatGPT looked… surrounded. It still leads, but not by a mile anymore. Gemini is climbing. Grok is exploding. Claude is steady. And mobile is where the real AI war is happening now.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
🧠 To see which AI is actually reliable, The Washington Post ran a 900-answer test for 9 tools from ChatGPT, Claude, Google, Perplexity, Meta & Grok. Here's the test.
💥 Ad maker PJ Ace did it again. Months after going viral with an AI ad for Kalshi (100M views), he just made another for David Beckham’s company IM8. Here’s the super-realistic video.
🤝 Anthropic and OpenAI just audited each other’s AI models for safety risks → a first-of-its-kind collab. You can read Anthropic’s findings on OpenAI (and vice versa) here.
📊 Anthropic analyzed 74,000 educator chats with Claude & released a new report at how AI is used in higher education. Turns out, professors are now quietly adapting too.
🌨 Google DeepMind’s experimental weather AI just nailed its first real-world test, predicting Hurricane Erin’s path more accurately than traditional forecasting methods.
💰 AI Daily Fundraising: FieldAI raised $405M to build one universal robot brain that works across all robot types. Their physics-based AI cuts risk, and is already used in energy, delivery, and construction.
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AI QUICK HITS
📢 Here’s a viral system prompt for ChatGPT to speak like a real person
🎥 Alibaba just updates its video AI model with “film-quality avatars”
📈 Google Workspace’s offering a new Free AI video tool to Google Vids
💼 Stanford found AI killed 13% of jobs for 22–25 y/o in coding, support
👨💻 A hacker used Claude to run a full-scale cybercrime hitting 17 orgs
AI CHART
AI2 just dropped AstaBench, a rigorous new benchmark suite built from the ground up to actually test scientific AI agents with 2,400+ real research tasks.
AstaBench is designed around 5 brutal truths about agent testing:
Tasks must be real-world and hard
Tool use must be controlled
Costs must be tracked, accuracy isn’t everything if you’re burning $$$
Standardization is key → same tools, same formats, less dev bias
You can’t claim progress without knowing what you beat
They tested 57 agents across 22 architectures. Here’s the high-level result:
Asta v0 (their own agent): 53.0% → uses 5 LLMs and 5 task-specific sub-agents
ReAct + GPT-5: 43.3%
Data analysis is still weak, no one scored above 34%
Literature understanding is strongest, 44 agents passed at least one benchmark
GPT-5 helped general agents (like ReAct), but oddly hurt specialized ones. So it might’ve been tuned specifically for ReAct-style workflows.
This is the benchmark to watch if you're building AI tools for research, medicine, engineering or anything where trust, reproducibility, and cost matter.
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