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Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-digital-avatars-corporate-vi…

AI avatars are here in full force—and they’re serving some of the world’s biggest companies
Digital avatars make training and internal comms videos much easier and cheaper to produce.

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative…

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem | TechCrunch
CC signals will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models.

Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/29/apple-working-on-7-head-mounted-products/

Kuo: Apple working on 7 head-mounted products - 9to5Mac
According to him, the company has at least seven head-worn devices in development across two product families, one coming in 2025.

Apple's Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac in iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and gains features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/apples-journal-app-i…

Apple’s Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac with big upgrades - 9to5Mac
Apple’s Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac this fall as part of iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, with several new features included.

A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahead: OpenAI's o3 is a breakthrough, AI agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow down (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/summertime-outlook-o3s-nov…

Some ideas for what comes next
As releases slow down, it's time to think about what we got this year and where we are going. o3's search, agent vs model progress, and scaling's settling.

Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

Apple announces Workout Buddy, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Watch fitness workouts by providing personalized insights during exercise sessions (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/ai-powered-workout-buddy-coming…

Apple Unveils AI-Powered 'Workout Buddy' for Apple Watch at WWDC
Apple at WWDC just announced Workout Buddy, which brings Apple Intelligence to fitness workouts on Apple Watch for the first time. The new feature...

Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/chatgpt-integration-co…

ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground
Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji. ChatGPT image generation is now available directly in Image Playground,...

The Irish Data Protection Commission says Meta told it that WhatsApp ads "won't be launching" in the EU "until 2026"; WhatsApp says ads are coming "gradually" (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-m

WhatsApp won’t roll out ads in EU until 2026
Meta’s advertising plan has triggered privacy concerns in Europe.

Meta is adding support for passkeys on Facebook's iOS and Android apps "soon", and will begin rolling out passkeys to Messenger "in the coming months" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689410/facebook-passkey…

Facebook rolls out passkey support to fight phishing attacks
Facebook is adding support for passkeys, allowing you to sign into your account using your device’s authentication methods, such as a fingerprint, face scan, or PIN.