This Week’s Biggest Tech News Recap In October 2025

Here are the latest technology news, AI developments, and business announcements this week in October 2025:

This Week’s Tech News and AI Developments

Google has announced that it will deprecate call-only ads and require advertisers to use call assets within responsive search ads. Starting February 2026, you will not be able to create call-only ad campaigns.
Microsoft launched Bing Places for Business, featuring a unified domain, smarter Google imports, and tools to boost local SEO visibility.
OpenAI denies stealing trade secrets and asks the court to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit related to xAI, escalating the legal battle in AI.
YouTube launched its new Activation Partners program, connecting advertisers with trusted third-party experts to maximize campaign performance and media buying strategies.
ElevenLabs introduced Agent Workflows, a visual editor that lets developers build dynamic, branching conversation flows with Subagents and AI-driven routing.
Google launched CodeMender, an AI-powered agent that detects, patches, and rewrites software to eliminate security vulnerabilities before they cause harm.
OpenAI launched Apps in ChatGPT and a new Apps SDK, allowing developers to build interactive, conversational tools that integrate naturally into chats.
Facebook has launched upgraded Reels features, including improved recommendations, friend bubbles, and AI-powered search suggestions.
OpenAI launched AgentKit, a new suite of tools that helps developers build, deploy, and optimize advanced AI agents.
Cohere announced the launch of its Partner Program to empower organizations with enterprise AI solutions and co-innovation opportunities.
Google has launched Gemini CLI extensions, allowing developers to personalize their terminals with AI-powered integrations from top partners, including Figma, Stripe, Shopify, and more.
Salesforce expanded Agentforce with new AI-powered security and compliance tools that proactively detect threats, automate risk management, and streamline data privacy workflows for enterprises.
Anthropic appoints former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technology Officer to strengthen Claude’s infrastructure and meet growing enterprise demand.
YouTube has launched a new Brand Pulse Report that unifies paid and organic data, helping advertisers measure their total brand impact and optimize cross-channel strategies.
Meta expanded its AI translation for Reels, enabling creators to dub and lip-sync content in English, Spanish, Hindi, and Portuguese – bringing global communities closer together through seamless multilingual sharing.

Handshake AI – helps employers discover, evaluate, and recruit talent by using AI to match students’ profiles, skills, and experiences to job and internship opportunities.
Humanize AI – a tool that takes AI-generated text and rewrites it to sound more natural, human-like, and undetectable by AI detectors.
Bolt – a browser-based AI development tool that lets you describe the app you want in plain language and then scaffolds, runs, edits, and deploys full-stack web applications.
Turbo AI – an educational AI tool that transforms audio, video, or text into structured learning resources like notes, flashcards, quizzes, and podcasts.
Monolith – builds domain-specific AI tools to help engineers validate test data, optimize test plans, detect anomalies, and calibrate systems in R&D environments.
Datavault AI – a platform that turns data into a secure, monetizable asset using AI, blockchain, visualization, and valuation tools.
PolyBuzz AI – a platform for AI-driven character chat & roleplay, letting you converse with virtual characters, design custom personas, and generate images.

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