Here are the current tech news, AI developments, and tools for business in marketing on October 1, 2025:
Tech News and AI Developments
- Google announced a new AI Mode visual search, allowing users to explore images, refine ideas, and shop smarter.
- Microsoft has partnered with xAI to bring Grok 4, the company’s most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry.
- Anthropic launched major upgrades to Claude Code, including a VS Code extension, a refreshed terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous coding.
- AWS announces expanded Outposts third-party storage integration, adding Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra systems.
- OpenAI launched Sora 2, a new video and audio generation model with physics-based realism, sound, and social features.
- IBM announced Network Intelligence, an AI solution combining time-series foundation models and reasoning agents to transform network operations.
Trending AI Tools
- Sora 2 – turns prompts or images into hyperreal videos with automatic motion, sound, and remixing.
- Poly AI – builds lifelike conversational voice assistants to automate and improve customer support across voice, chat, SMS, etc.
- Wsup AI – lets you freely chat with AI characters online to role-play, converse, or explore personalities.
- Janitor – lets you design and chat with AI-driven characters (personas) powered by external language models.
- Artlist – turns text or images into themed visuals or voiceovers (and animates them) under a royalty-free license.
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