Here are the top 20 technology news, AI developments, and business announcements you missed this week in September 2025:
This Week’s Tech News and AI Developments
- Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview.
- xAI released Grok Code Fast 1 – the fastest and cheapest coding model out there.
- Tesla is bringing FSD to Australia, starting with the Model 3 and Y.
- OpenAI announced a joint safety evaluation with Anthropic, where both companies tested each other’s AI models for alignment, misuse, and safety issues.
- Google allegedly warned its billions of Gmail users to change their passwords after a data breach occurred, but apparently, it was fake news.
- Grok Imagine is now available on Web.
- xAI has sued a former engineer for allegedly uploading the entire codebase to OpenAI.
- Google officially claimed that its Gmail protections are strong and effective, and that Gmail security warnings are false.
- Anthropic raised $13 billion in funding and is now at a $183 billion post-money valuation.
- Samsung revealed its ’SmartThings Meets AI Home’ campaign, showcasing how Samsung AI Home brings comfort and meaning to life.
- Tesla has officially launched its Master Plan Part IV.
- NVIDIA partnered with Black Tech Street to train 10,000 learners and empower Tulsa’s community to lead the AI economy.
- Russell Brunson just launched OfferLab, a collaborative funnel platform that lets creators and affiliates collaborate on products and automatically split revenue.
- Amazon introduced Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool that allows you to scan products instantly, compare matches, and add to cart without leaving the camera view.
- Starbucks rolled out AI-powered inventory counting across its North America coffeehouses.
- OpenAI acquired Statsig for $1.1B and named its founder, Vijaye Raji, CTO of Applications.
- Instagram is officially coming to iPad.
- Genspark announced that Nano Banana is free for everyone on Genspark AI Image.
- Samsung announced its “AI Home: Future Living Now” vision at IFA 2025, showcasing how SmartThings and AI bring more comfort and meaning to daily life.
- OpenAI stated that it’s developing its own AI-powered hiring platform, OpenAI Jobs Platform.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- VO AI – turns your natural-language descriptions into fully functional, deployable web apps, handling UI, backend logic, debugging, and integrations in one intelligent workflow.
- Novel AI – a tool for AI-generated storytelling and anime-style art.
- Perchance – a free, browser-based platform for creating custom random text and character generators.
- Civit AI – an open community platform where users share, download, and monetize AI image-generation models, especially for Stable Diffusion, using a virtual currency system.
- Pollo AI – a platform that turns text, images, or videos into animated, stylized content using diverse models and playful effects.
- Nomi AI – an emotionally intelligent companion platform that remembers your preferences and chats via text, voice, images, and group interactions with personalized virtual characters.
- Merlin – a Chrome-based assistant for writing, summarizing, researching, and creating content.
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