Here are the latest technology news, business developments, and trending AI tools today on October 16, 2025:
Today’s Technology News
- Google DeepMind releases Veo 3.1, adding richer audio, improved realism, and advanced editing tools to its AI video tool Flow for enhanced creative control.
- Meta is building a new AI-optimized data center in El Paso, Texas, that will scale to 1GW, create over 1,800 construction jobs, and prioritize sustainability and clean energy.
- Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a small model offering near frontier performance at one third the cost and over twice the speed of previous versions.
- Apple introduced the M5 chip, featuring over four times faster AI GPU compute, a stronger CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher memory bandwidth for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro.
- NVIDIA Inception startup Starcloud is launching AI-powered satellites to build space-based data centers with 10 times lower energy costs and zero water usage.
Trending AI Tools
- Originality AI – a content quality tool that detects AI-generated text, checks for plagiarism, corrects grammar, and evaluates readability and factual accuracy.
- AI Dungeon – an interactive text-based adventure game powered by AI that lets users create and guide stories in virtually any setting through freeform input.
- PixVerse – a tool that transforms text prompts or photos into animated videos using AI, producing visual effects like motion, transitions, and stylized transformations.
- Grubby AI – a “humanizer” tool that rewrites AI-generated text to make it sound more natural and to try to bypass AI content detectors.
- Joyland – a chat and roleplay platform where users can create and interact with AI characters or fictional bots for immersive conversational stories.
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